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agricultural purposes. The Indian school and farm at Panguitch 

 was turned over to the experiment station, with a preliminary^ appro- 

 priation of $2,500 to commence experiment and demonstration work. 

 The State of Virginia passed a bill creating a united agricultural 

 board, and appropriating $5,000 a year to the experiment station for 

 establishing and maintaining district substations. The term " dis- 

 trict " is meant to cover a section of the State usually embracing a 

 number of counties having approximately similar conditions of soil, 

 climate, and agricultural practice. 



CHANGES IN PERSONNEL. 



During the year comparatively few important changes in the sta- 

 tion staffs took place. The only new appointee to a directorship was 

 James A. Wilson, superintendent of the Murray State School of 

 Agriculture at Tishomingo, Okla., who was appointed director of the 

 Oklahoma station. Since the close of the year the directorship of the 

 Texas station was taken over by B. Youngblood, formerly connected 

 with this department, and that of the New Jersey stations was en- 

 tered upon by J. G. Lipman, in charge of soil chemistry and bacte- 

 riology at that station. L. H. Moore was appointed director of the 

 Alabama Canebrake station, vice F. D. Stevens, resigned. Quite re- 

 cently E. K. Lloyd was appointed director of the Mississippi station 

 in place of J. W. Fox, resigned, and E. D. Sanderson succeeded to the 

 directorship of the West Virginia station after the retirement of 

 J. H. Stewart. 



The necrology list of the year is fortunately also a short one. Dr. 

 E. B. Voorhees, director of the New Jersey stations, died early in 

 June. A brief account of his life and services is given below. Frank 

 J. Phillips, head of the forestry department of the Nebraska college 

 and station since 1907, died February 13, 1911. The death of Ray- 

 mond H. Pond, plant pathologist of the Texas station since 1909, 

 occurred on July 26, 1911. Prof. F. H. King, widely known for 

 his research in soil physics and as the author of the King system 

 of ventilation, long connected with the Wisconsin experiment sta- 

 tion, and also for a time with this department, died at his home in 

 Madison; Wis., August 4, 1911, at the age of G3 years. 



DR. EDWARD B. VOORHEES. 



Dr. E. B. Voorhees, for nearly 30 years connected with the New 

 Jersey experiment stations in the capacity of chemist and director, 

 and for 20 years professor of agriculture in Rutgers College, died 

 June 6, 1911. 



Edward Burnett Voorhees was born at Minebrook, Somerset 

 County, N. J., on June 22, 1856. He was graduated from Rutgers 

 College in 1881 with the degree of bachelor of arts, and in 1900 he 



