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versity of Vermont, have been appointed assistants, vice John W. Calvin, 

 resigned to accept a position as assistant chemist at the Kansas Station, and 

 Koy C. Jones, resigned to become instructor in dairying at the Montana College. 



Rhode Island College.— A Farmers' Week devoted to work in agronomy and 

 (lairyiui:. was iicld (Ills winter for the first time, beginning December 27, with a 

 good atti'nd.-iiicc and nnich interest. 



Texas Station.— Kayniond II. Pond, Th. D., recently connected with the Munic- 

 ipal Sewage Commission of New York, has been appointed plant pathologist 

 in the station. Dr. O. M. Ball will hereafter confine himself to work in the 

 college. 



An Agricultural Short Course in a Missouri State Normal School. — Caiman's 

 Rural World for December 29, 1909, states that the normal school at Cape 

 Girardeau. Mo., will offer a G weeks' course in agriculture for the benefit of 

 those in the agricultural district surrounding this school who can not attend 

 I'cgular school work hut desire some training in the business of farming. 



Madras Agricultural College. — The Tropical Agriculturist and Magazine of 

 the Ceylon Agricultural Society for Octol)er announces the completion and 

 dedication of the agricultural college at Coimbatore, which was authorized by 

 Ihe government of India in 1905. A farm of 4-50 acres has been under culti- 

 vation during the past 2 years, and 20 students were admitted in June of this 

 year. The course of training extends through 3 years and includes theoretical 

 and practical instruction in general agriculture, entomology, agricultural engi- 

 neering, veterinary science and kindred subjects, with special provision for 

 research investigations. The present staff consists of an expert agriculturist, 

 a botanist, and an agricultural chemist, and eventually will include an ento- 

 mologist and mycologist. 



Miscellaneous. — At the recent meeting at Boston of the American Association 

 of Economic Entomologists, officers were elected for the current year as fol- 

 lows : President, E. Dwight Sanderson; first vice-president, H. T. Fei-nald; 

 second vice-president, P. J. Parrott ; and secretary-treasurer, A. F. Burgess. 

 The next meeting is to be held in Minneapolis. December 28. 



W. J. Colebatch, for several years on the staff of the Victorian Department 

 of Agriculture, has been appointed to the i)osition of superintendent and in- 

 structor in agriculture in South-East Australia and manager of the Kybybolite 

 Experimental Farm in South Australia, and entered upon his new duties 

 November 16. He will also be in charge of the Roseworthy Agricultural Col- 

 lege during the absence of Professor Perkins this year. 



A recent number of the Wiener LandioirtschaftUche Zeitung announces the 

 retirement of Prof. Julius Kiihn, at the age of 85 years, as director of the 

 Agricultural Institute of Halle, and the appointment of Prof. F. Wohltmann as 

 his successor. Professor Kiihn will still continue some of his lecture work. 



A recent number of the Wioicr Landwirtschaftliche Zeitung announces the 

 appointment of Dr. Otto Gratz as director of the Royal Hungarian Dairy Ex- 

 periment Station at Magyar-Ovar (Ungarisch-Altenburg). 



The Deutsche Landwirtschaftliche Presse of November 27, 1909, announces 

 the appointment of E. Tietz, former assistant at the Berlin Royal Agricjultural 

 High School, as professor of agriculture and forestry at the German-Chinese 

 High School opened October 28 at Tsingtau (Klautschou), China. 



A recent number of La Tribune Horticole announces the death of Clement 

 Marchandlse, inspector of horticulture in the Rural Office of the Belgian Min- 

 istry of Agriculture. He was prgfessor of horticulture in the National School 

 of Horticulture at Vilvorde, France, from 1864 to 1909. 



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