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the Secretary of Agriculture to stamp out the 

 foot-and-mouth disease and other contagious 

 diseases of animals which may appear. The 

 appropriations for the experiment stations in 

 Hawaii and Porto Eico are increased to $15,- 

 000, making them uniform with the appro- 

 priation for stations in other states and ter- 

 ritories, and $5,000 is appropriated for taking 

 up the farmers' institute work with a view 

 to assisting the organizations in the different 

 states and territories and making them more 

 effective means for the dissemination of the 

 results of the work of the department and 

 of the agricultural experiment stations. A 

 farmers institute specialist, who has had long 

 experience in this line of educational work, 

 has been appointed upon the staff of the Office 

 of Experiment Stations, and will take up the 

 new enterprise in April. The fund for the 

 purchase of seeds for congressional distribu- 

 tion is increased by $20,000, being now $290,- 

 000, but an additional $10,000 is allowed to 

 be expended out of this fund for the seed and 

 plant introduction from foreign countries, 

 making the fund for that purpose $30,000. 



The items carried by the act for the various 

 bureaus and divisions are as follows: Office 

 of the Secretary, $74,600; Weather Bureau, 

 $1,248,520; Bureau of Animal Industry, $1,- 

 287,380; emergency appropriation for foot- 

 and-mouth disease, $500,000; agricultural 

 experiment stations and Office of Experi- 

 ment Stations (including irrigation investi- 

 gations and nutrition investigation), $895,- 

 000; Bureau of Plant Industry, $674,930 

 (increase of $62,200) ; Bureau of" Forestry, 

 $350,000 (increase of $58,140); Bureau of 

 Soils, $212,480 (increase of $42,800) ; Bureau 

 of Chemistry, $85,300 (increase of $15,500); 

 Bureau of Statistics, $156,660 (increase of 

 $15,500); Division of Entomology, $77,450 

 (increase of $10,000); Division of Biological 

 Survey, $51,850 (increase of $6,000) ; Division 

 of Publications, $229,320 ($105,000 of which is 

 to be used for the preparation and printing 

 of Farmers' Bulletins) ; Division of Foreign 

 Markets, $16,000; Public Eoad Inquiries, 

 $35,000; Library, $20,000; Division of Ac- 

 counts, $24,350; contingent expenses, $37,000; 

 Museum, $2,260. 



This statement does not include the funds 

 available for printing the publications of the 

 department, which are carried by another ap- 

 propriation. 



Congress also gave authority for the erec- 

 tion of suitable buildings for the department, 

 to cost not exceeding $1,500,000, and $250,000 

 was appropriated for the work to be done on 

 these buildings during the coming year. 



The total appropriations made by the Fifty- 

 seventh Congress for the department aggre- 

 gate $12,005,133.80. 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS. 



The American Museum of Natural History 

 announces the appointment of Dr. Livingston 

 Farrand, of Columbia University, as assistant 

 curator of ethnology, and of Professor Wil- 

 liam Morton Wheeler, now of the University 

 of Texas, as curator of invertebrate zoology. 



Professor Andrew C. McLaughlin, who 

 has filled the chair of American history at the 

 University of Michigan since 1891, has been 

 selected by the trustees of the Carnegie In- 

 stitution to organize a bureau of historical 

 research and to direct its investigations. Pro- 

 fessor McLaughlin has been given a leave of 

 absence from the University of Michigan for 

 the coming college year in order that he may 

 take up this new work. The larger part of the 

 investigations will be carried on in connection 

 with the government archives at Washington. 



The daily papers state that Professor 

 Eaphael Pumpelly, of Newport, E. I., has 

 gone to Turkistan to make explorations under 

 the auspices of the Carnegie Institution. 



Dr. Wilhelm Bauers, of the Eoyal Ethno- 

 logical Museum, Berlin, is at present at 

 Mexico studying the native tribes. 



Professor Volney M. Spalding, head of 

 the botanical department of the University 

 of Michigan, has been granted leave of ab- 

 sence by the board of regents for the next 

 academic year. He will devote the time 

 largely to studies of plant distribution, visit- 

 ing various European collections and travel- 

 ing elsewhere. 



In harmony with the invitation received 

 from the German government, the Secretary 



