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to the mountain town of Cettinje, the capital 

 of Montenegro. On this trip the party will 

 have meals and will sleep on the steamer. 

 The cost is estimated at about 200 kronen, 

 about $40, but this may be reduced, provided 

 sufficient numbers take the excursion. Defi- 

 nite responses concerning it must be in the 

 hands of the committee by June 1, next. 



There is also offered a supplementary ex- 

 cursion which is most attractive to those who 

 enjoy the out of the way. It leaves the other 

 on the return trip at Ragusa, and goes into 

 the mountains by rail to Mostar, the capital 

 of Bosnia, and then to Sarajevo, the capital 

 of Herzegovina, and thence to the end of the 

 railway at Jaice. Then comes a carriage ride 

 of about thirty or forty miles to the railroad 

 at Banjaluka, where the train is taken again 

 for Agram, the end of the excursion. On this 

 trip there will be many stops, but the names 

 of the stations mean little to most Americans. 

 This supplementary excursion will occupy a 

 week and the cost will be about $40 additional. 

 It will be under the charge of the Bosnian- 

 Herzegovinan Landes-Museum, thus guaran- 

 teeing the best of introduction to the strange 

 lands of the Balkans. 



Anyone interested in zoology is eligible to 

 membership in the congress, the cost being 

 25 kronen (about $5.00). The wives and 

 daughters of members may join as partici- 

 pants. Members have all the rights usually 

 associated with membership (the fee being 

 12 kr.), and are to receive the publications of 

 the congress. Xone but members and par- 

 ticipants are entitled to attend the meetings 

 of the congress or to take part in the excur- 

 sions. 



A second circular, giving full particulars of 

 the sections, a list of hotels and boarding 

 houses and other information will be issued in 

 March, and this with the present circular will 

 be mailed to all who request it. All com- 

 munications should be addressed to the 

 Praesidium des VIII. Intemationalen Zo- 

 ologenkongress, Universitatsplatz, 2, Graz, 

 Austria. Postal orders or drafts for member- 

 ship fees should be dravra in favor of the 

 " VIII. International Zoological Congress " 



and be sent to the Steiermarkische Escompte- 

 bank at Graz. 



Titles of all papers to be presented to the 

 cong:ress must be received before August 1, 

 1910, in order to have a place on the program ; 

 and as soon as the paper is read the manu- 

 script must be handed to the secretary in com- 

 plete shape, ready for printing. 



THE DEPARTMENT OF AORWULTURAL 

 EDUCATION OF THE VNIVERfilTY 

 OF WISCONSIN 

 Professor Karl Hatch, who has charge of 

 the newly organized department of. agricul- 

 tural education in the University of Wiscon- 

 sin College of Agriculture, is formulating 

 plans for assisting rural and high schools in 

 their efforts to give effective instruction in 

 agriculture. A traveling library of lantern 

 slides illustrating various phases of dairying 

 and farming has been provided which will be 

 sent to schools for use. A collection of en- 

 larged photographs of agricultural products 

 and materials has also been prepared. An 

 explanation of the methods of using the bul- 

 letins issued by the Experiment Station and 

 the U. S. Department of Agriculture has also 

 been provided, which is designed to make 

 available for instruction the material in these 

 official publications. The college of agricul- 

 ture has arranged to have a number of its 

 faculty deliver special lectures on teaching 

 agriculture at county teachers' institutes. 



A special annual appropriation of $30,000 

 for agricultural extension work, made by the 

 last state legislature, has resulted in the ex- 

 pansion of this work until it now includes 

 eleven different branches. The extension 

 work in the department of horticulture in- 

 cludes demonstrations of the spraying of po- 

 tato fields and of orchards, the distribution of 

 pure-bred tobacco seed, the inspection of 

 orchards and nurseries for destructive insects 

 and fungous growths and assistance in land- 

 scape gardening. 



Means of control and eradication of weeds 

 are given through the agronomy department, 

 which also disseminates pure-bred grains and 

 seeds of forage plants among the farmers, in- 



