96 EXPERIMENT STATION RECORD. 



Idaho Station. — \V. L. Cailyle, foniiLTly of tlic Colorado College and Station, 

 has been appointed dirertor, and entered ui)on his dnties January 1. 



Minnesota University and Station. — A. V. Woods, assistant chief of the 

 Bureau of Plant Industry of this Department, has been aiipointed dean and 

 director to succeed J. W. Olseu, resigned, and will enter upon his duties about 

 February 15. O. M. Olson, deputy superintendent of farmers' institutes at the 

 Washington College, has accepted a position with the extension department of 

 the college of agriculture. 



Nebraska University and Station. — Charles S. Allen and William G. Whitmore 

 have been reelected regents, and Frank I^. Haller, of Omaha, has been elected 

 to fill a vacancy on the board. G. Herbert Koons, adjunct professor of agri- 

 cultural botany, has also been appointed assistant in agricultural botany in the 

 station. 



New Mexico College and Station. — F. L, Bixby, connected with the Irrigation 

 Investigation of this Otlice, has been appointed professor of civil and irrigation 

 engineering in the college and irrigation engineer in the station, and entered 

 upon his duties January 1. 



Ohio State University. — Owing to the increased enrollment in the regular 

 courses in domestic science and the resulting lack of room and equipment, the 

 home makers' short course in domestic science has been discontinued for the 

 present year. Extension schools continuing for one week are being held in 35 

 counties in the State, under the appropriation made by the last legislature. 

 O. C. Cunningham has been appointed instructor in dairying. 



Oregon College. — The department of industrial pedagogy, authorized by the 

 board of regents in January, 1908, but held in abeyance through lack of funds, 

 was given concrete form last August when E. D. Ressler, for 7 years president 

 of the Oregon State Normal School, was appointed professor in charge. The 

 first semester is being devoted to instruction in the county institutes and to the 

 general promotion of industrial education in the State. Classes will be organ- 

 ized in the second semester in the pedagogy of elementary agriculture, domestic 

 science and art, and the mechanic arts. A summer school of 7 weeks will also 

 be organized for the benefit of public school teachers who desire opportunity to 

 fit themselves to teach the industrial subjects. 



Clemson College, — President P. H. Mell retired early in January, and will 

 reside in Atlanta, Ga. Walter M. Riggs, director of the mechanical and elec- 

 trical department, has been appointed acting president. 



West Virginia Station. — O. C. Beck, an 1899 graduate of Columbia University, 

 has been appointed assistant chemist and entered ui)ou his duties December 1. 



Wisconsin University and Station. — Itecent aijpointments include the following 

 assistants : Miss Emily M. Bresee and J. C. Jurrjens in the feed and fertilizer 

 inspection, J. Johnson in horticulture, J. M. Napier in agronomy, P. P. Peterson 

 and W. W. Weir in soils, W. W. Sylvester and F. White in agricultural engi- 

 neering, and W. II. Peterson in agricultural chemistry. 



American Society of Animal Nutrition. — The first annual meeting of this society 

 was held in Chicago, November 27, in connection with the International Live 

 Stock Exposition. About 40 college and station workers were in attendance. 

 The secretary reported an increase in the membership to 92, representing 33 

 States. 



The presidential address by H. P. Armsby dealt with The Food Supply of the 

 Future. Some of the principal features of this address are noted editorially. 



A brief report on aflnliation with other societies was made by H. J. Waters. 

 The society voted to authorize the president and the committee on affiliation 

 to make such arrangements toward affiliation as they saw fit. 



