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Applications for the Ralston-Purina research fellowship should be on file by March 1. Application blanks may be obtained from the Ralston-Purina Research Awards Committee in care of Mr. J. D. Sykes, Ralston-Purina Co., St. Louis, Missouri. The fellowships are for $1440 annually and awards will be made in the fields of nutrition and physiology research as applied to dairy, poultry, and animal husbandry, and in research in transmissible diseases of livestock and poultry. Individuals qualified for graduate study in any Land-Grant Agriculture College and approved Veterinary Colleges are eligible.

The Second Inter-American meeting of Livestock Production convened jointly by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations and the Inter-American Institute of Agricultural Sciences was held in the city of Baurie, State of Sao Paulo, Brazil, December 8-13, 1952. A total of seventeen nations was represented. The meeting elected João Soares Verga, of Brazil, as its chairman, and Luis Escalõn, of El Salvador, and Mario Lusiardo, of Uruguay, as its Vice-chairmen.