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versity herbarium, at the end of the academic year. He will be 
succeeded by Dr. Edwin B. Mains beginning with the second 
semester.— Science. 
Doctor A. J. Grout will be at the Biological Laboratory at’ 
Cold Spring Harbor, Long Island, for six weeks each summer (in 
1931, from July 31 to September 10, inclusive) to take charge of 
such students and investigators as may wish to take up any 
problems connected with bryophytes: ecology, morphology, 
physiology, or taxonomy. Inquiries should be addressed to the 
director of the biological Laboratory at Cold Spring Harbor, 
Long Island, New York, or to Doctor A. J. Grout, 1 Vine Street, 
New Brighton, Staten Island, New York. 
The state experiment stations expended for agricultural re- 
search in the fiscal year 1930 about $17,000,000, of which 
$4,320,000 came from federal sources, says Walter H. Evans, 
acting chief of the office of experiment stations, in his annual re- 
port. 
The report shows that the stations engaged during the year 
in more than 7,000 lines of research dealing with problems in 
agricultural production, distribution, marketing, and home- 
making, 
Technical Bulletin 219-T on laurel poisoning, just issued by 
the US Department of Agriculture, reports a study of the 
Poisonous properties of the plants and tells how to treat poisoned 
“nimals, Toxic properties of mountain-laurel and sheep laurel 
have been recognized for nearly two hundred years. In each the 
ey te Principle is andromedotoxin. Dr. C. Dwight Marsh 
a ` Clawson, physiologists of the Bureau of Animal In- 
a y ted leaves and flowers of mountain-laurel to sheep. Tests 
"1 Cattle and goats showed much the same results as with 
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hi » the animals first showing depression, then weakness, 
Eiei and sometimes prostration. Effects of sheep laurel were 
ar 
oped ’ those of mountain-laurel, although symptoms devel- 
more quickly from sheep laurel. Deer found dead in Penn- 
laure] = in recent years were thought to have died from 
death ee but no direct evidence as to the exact cause of 
MCials in f = found, and experiments by Pennsylvania State 
Poisonin ling deer exclusively on laurel leaves did not cause 
ties of leas when they were forced to eat large quanti- 
untain-laurel. Cattle, sheep, and goats are suscep- 
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