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established several experiment stations, 

 notably tbe station for plant culture at 

 Briinn, the station for investigations in 

 plant and animal production at Otterbach, 

 and an agricultural physiological station, 

 with divisions of chemistry, physiology 

 and bacteriology, at Prague. In Hungary 

 an experiment station for the analysis and 

 study of wines was established last year at 

 Fiune. 



France has established at Nogent-sur- 

 ]\Iarne a colonial garden to have adminis- 

 trative control over French colonial sta- 

 tions and botanic gardens in different 

 parts of the world and to furnish these 

 institutions with seeds and plants. Dur- 

 ing the year cenological stations have been 

 established at Toulouse and Beaune and 

 an agricultural station at BesanQon. 



In Germany five years of successful 

 work at the Lauchstadt Experimental 

 Farm, which is connected with the agri- 

 cultural chemical experiment station at 

 Halle, has given so much evidence of the 

 value of experimental farms in connec- 

 tion with experiment stations that there 

 is a movement in that country toward the 

 extension of the so-called ' American sys- 

 tem ' of field experiments, conducted on 

 a large scale and in a more practical way 

 than has hitherto been customary in that 

 country. Two new stations have been 

 established during the year, a flax-culture 

 station at Sorau and a viticultural experi- 

 ment station at Weinsberg. 



In the West Indies and South America 

 also the claims of agricultural education 

 and research have received much atten- 

 tion. The department of agriculture in 

 the West Indies has established three new 

 stations at Montserrat and one at Tortola, 

 and has conducted several meetings of 

 planters and investigators, at which great 

 interest in the advancement of agriculture 

 was displayed. The Bolivian Government 

 has established an agricultural college at 



Cochabamba and an agricultural school 

 for Indians at Umala. Brazil has recently 

 established a botanical garden and experi- 

 mental demonstration field at San Vi- 

 cente, and the Argentine Republic has 

 decided to establish four experiment sta- 

 tions on the same general plan as those in 

 the United States. 



A review of the progress of agricultural 

 I'esearch during the year would not be 

 complete without mention of the organi- 

 zation of a department of agriculture, with 

 a small staff of experts, at Bangalore by 

 the government of Mysore, India; the es- 

 tablishment of a dairy station at Gem- 

 Lloux, Belgium; a veterinary pathological 

 institute and animal vaccine institute at 

 Ghristiania, Norway; and an irrigation ex- 

 periment station at Calgary, Canada. 



A. C. True. 



Office of Experiment Stations, 

 U. S. Department of Agriculture. 



SCIENTIFIC BOOKS. 

 Mechanical Drawing. By F. W. Baetlett, 



Lieutenant Commander, U. S. Navy. New 



York, John Wiley & Sons. Pp. viii-(- 



190. 



Although this book has been prepared pri- 

 marily for students of the United States 

 Naval Academy at Annapolis and indicates 

 some of the distinctive features of the course 

 in that institution, it must prove highly ser- 

 viceable to the general student about to begin 

 drafting. Without including either geometry 

 or descriptive geometry — courses in which are 

 given in another department of the Academy 

 — the author restricts himself to the presenta- 

 tion and application of those practical meth- 

 ods which have commended themselves to the 

 experts of the various departments of con- 

 struction. The following, from the preface, 

 will indicate the divisions cited: "As general 

 methods differ slightly, the drawings referred 

 to for the general instruction have been those 

 of the Bureau of Steam Engineering of the 

 Navy Department, and the methods of that 

 Bureau have been followed. The special meth- 



