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SCIENCE. 



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agricultural colleges and societies, and of the general 

 subject of agricultural education. Papers were read 

 by Dr. O. C. Abbott of Michigan, Mr. Augustine 

 Smith, Hon. Jno. A. King, Prof. J. A. Holmes of 

 North Carolina, and Hon. D. W. Aiken of South 

 Carolina. 



Animal industries were discussed on Jan. 25, 26, 

 and 27; and papers were presented by Mr. R. Baker of 

 Ohio, Dr. James Law of New Tork, Mr. E. V. Gaines 

 of Virginia, Mr. T. D. Curtis of New Tork, Mr. H. 

 B. Guiler of Illinois, Mr. Ezra Stetson of Illinois, 

 Prof. Wesley "Webb of Delaware, and Dr. M. G. EU- 

 zey of Virginia. Much interest was manifested in 

 both of these sessions, and the general discussions 

 were animated and interesting. On the 29th, the 

 last day, and the one set apart for the consideration 

 of the cotton industries, there was a decided falling- 

 off in attendance; many of the delegates having left 

 for home Saturday night, the 27th. 



These conventions which Dr. Loring has called 

 together, and which he inaugurated a year ago, have 

 been productive of much good in bringing represen- 

 tative agriculturists into closer relations with the de- 

 partment. They indicate the desire of the commis- 

 sioner to study the wishes and opinions of the people 

 in the management of the department, and thus to 

 Increase its usefulness. 



— Advices received from the U. S. consul at Mon- 

 tevideo, through the Department of state, show an 

 alarming condition of aSairs in parts of Uru- 

 guay from the ravages of destructive locusts. For- 

 eign countries frequently apply through the state 

 department for copies of the two reports of the 

 U. S. entomological commission on the Rocky- 

 Mountain locust; and it may be well to announce 

 that they were published under the interior ,depart- 

 ment, and are both out of print. The agricultural 

 report for 1877 contains a condensed account of the 

 more practical chapters by Professor Riley, and this 

 may yet be obtained of the commissioner. 



— The agricultural committee of the house has 

 agreed to report favorably a bill introduced by Mr. 

 Anderson of Kansas, which empowers the President 

 to appoint nine commissioners whose duty it shall be 

 to investigate thoroughly the movements of agricul- 

 tural products from points of production to their 

 final markets, the actual cost to the common carrier 

 and his profits, and all matters which practically 

 affect the difference between the prices received by 

 the producer and those paid by the consumer. 



— In Salusbury's translation (p. 79) of Dialogue 

 first of Galileo on ' His Systeme of the World,' 

 1661, Sagredus is made to say, " Ton put me in mind 

 of a man, who would have sold me a secret how to cor- 

 respond, by means of a certain sympathy of magnetick 

 needles, with one that should be two or three thou- 

 sand miles distant; and I telling him, that I would 

 willingly buy the same, but that I desired first to see 



the experiment thereof, and that it did suffice me to 

 make it, I being in one chamber, and he in the next, 

 he answered me that in so small a distance one could 

 not so well perceive the operation; whereupon I 

 turned him going, telling him that I had no mind at 

 that time to take a journey unto Grand Cairo, or to 

 Muscovy, but that if he would go himself, I would 

 perform the other part, staying in Venice." 



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