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ter of the Department of Agriculture'" and named Dr. E. N . 

 Bressman as temporary director. This action brings together un- 

 der one administrative head most of the field activities of the 

 Department in the vicinity of Washington. The Beltsville Re- 

 search Center, comprising about 4500 acres, about 15 miles 

 northeast of Washington, is destined to be developed as the 

 principal experimental area under control of the Department 

 and as the largest and most completely equipped plant for the 

 scientific study of agriculture in this country. 



The ten bureaus now assigned to conduct work in this area 

 are: the Bureaus of Animal Industry, Plant Industry, Dairy 

 Industry, Agricultural Engineering, Entomology and Plant 

 Quarantine, Chemistry and Soils, Agricultural Economics, and 

 Biological Survey, and the Food and Drug Administration and 

 the Forest Service. 



The Department plans ultimately to relocate at Beltsville 

 many of the activities which have been under way at the Arling- 

 ton Experimental Farm just south of Washington. 



For the school year, 1934-5, the Brooklyn Botanic Garden 

 announces a wide variety of courses for the public, for teachers, 

 and for children. These courses comprehend such subjects as 

 House Plants, their Care and Propagation; Gardening, Indoors 

 and Out; the Arrangement of Flowers; the Evolution of Plant 

 Families; Economic Plants; Nature Study; and Medicinal 

 Plants. In addition, out-of-door, or "field" courses are an- 

 nounced, to give practice in the identification of the trees, 

 shrubs, and flowering plants that are cultivated or grow wild 

 in the parks and woodlands of Greater New York and vicinity. 



Dr. E. P. Phillips, of the National Herbarium, Pretoria, 

 South Africa, under grants from the Carnegie Corporation and 

 from certain South African organizations, is making a study of 

 the botanical institutions of the United States. (Science) 



Dr. Charles Baehni, assistant at the Botanical Garden of 

 Geneva, Switzerland, is now at the Field Museum of Natural 

 History, Chicago, where he plans to spend a year in botanical 

 research. (Science) 



Professor Y. Yamamoto, of the Taihoku Imperial Univer- 



