August 20, 1909] 



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The Experiment Station Record states that 

 Joim B. Thompson, for several years con- 

 nected with the Bureau of Agriculture of the 

 Philippine Islands, has been appointed special 

 agent in charge of the Guam Station, with 

 H. L. V. Costenoble as assistant. Consider- 

 able material has been received for the erec- 

 tion of the station buildings. Experimental 

 plantings of forage and other crops from seed 

 secured from the mainland and Hawaii have 

 been begun by the station, and seeds have also 

 been distributed to farmers and others for 

 trial. 



William Blum, Ph.D. (Pennsylvania), late 

 assistant professor of chemistry at the Uni- 

 versity of Utah, becomes assistant chemist in 

 the Bureau of Standards, assuming office on 

 September 1. 



President Ira Eemsen, of the Johns Hop- 

 kins University, is in California engaged in 

 studying the question whether the " sulphur- 

 ing " process renders fruit unwholesome. 



Professor F. B. Crocker, of the electrical 

 engineering department of Columbia Univer- 

 sity, has leave of absence and starting in 

 October will make a trip around the world. 



Dr. M. C. Smith, of Lynn, Mass., sailed on 

 July 23 for Europe to attend the fifth Inter- 

 national Dental Congress, of which he is an 

 honorary president, to be held in Berlin the 

 last week in August, and the International 

 Medical Congress at Budapest. 



The University of Tubingen has celebrated 

 the centenary of the birth of the celebrated 

 geologist, Friedrich August Quenstedt. 



The University of Eochester, Eochester, 

 N. T., has received under the provisions of 

 the will of the late Eear Admiral William 

 Harkness, professor of mathematics, U.S.N., 

 almost his entire large and valuable collection 

 of astronomical and scientific instruments, 

 and a considerable part of his library. The 

 instruments, including an Alvan Clark tele- 

 scope, comprised the equipment for a private 

 observatory he intended to erect. The devise 

 of books included over 1,600 volumes, and 

 about 7,000 unbound periodicals and pam- 

 phlets. The university has placed the works 



on astronomy and physics in a separate section 

 of its library, as the basis of a scientific de- 

 partment, to be known as the Harkness Scien- 

 tific Library. 



Dr. Milliken Stalker, for many years head 

 of the department of veterinary science of 

 Iowa College, has died at the age of sixty-seven 

 years. 



Dr. 0. Froloch, who took an important 

 part in the development of electrical machin- 

 ery in Germany and as lecturer at the Char- 

 lottenburg Technical School, has died at the 

 age of sixty-sis years. 



Dr. Johanna Mestorf, until recently direc- 

 tor of the Museum for National Antiquities at 

 Kiel, has died at the age of eighty years. 



The deaths are also announced of Dr. A> 

 Eraser, professor of anatomy in the Eoyal 

 College of Surgeons, Dublin, and of Dr. W.. 

 Eitz, decent for physics at Gottingen. 



The tenth annual meeting of the Astronom- 

 ical and Astrophysical Society of America 

 opened at the Terkes Observatory, WiUiams 

 Bay, Wisconsin, on Wednesday evening, Au- 

 gust 18. 



The Society for Horticultural Science will 

 hold its annual meeting at St. Catharines, On- 

 tario, Canada, on Monday, September 13, im- 

 mediately preceding the meetings of the 

 American Pomological Society, which occurs 

 on September 14, 15 and 16. The Welland 

 Hotel will be headquarters for the society. 

 The program will be one of the best which the 

 society has ever had. Dr. L. H. Bailey, of 

 Cornell University, will discuss " The Field 

 of Eesearch Work in Horticulture." Dr. E. 

 W. Allen, of the Office of Experiment Stations,. 

 Washington, D. C, will discuss " The Adams 

 Fund in its Eelation to Investigations in 

 Horticulture." Dr. H. J. Webber, of Cornell' 

 University, will outline the work being carried 

 on there under the Adams Fund Act and Pro- 

 fessor S. B. Green, of St. Anthony Park, Min- 

 nesota, will outline the work being done under 

 this act at the University of Minnesota.. 

 There will be several other papers, but these 

 have not been definitely arranged for at thi& 

 time. 



