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Tuskegee Institute. — Millbank Agricultural Hall, the gift of Mrs. Elizabeth 

 M. Anderson, of New York City, was dedicated February 23. President Seth 

 Low, of the board of trustees, presided at the dedicatory exercises, in which 

 other participants were Robert C. Ogden, of New York City, State Com- 

 missioner of Agriculture J. A. Wilkinson, and Vice-President W. W. Campbell, 

 of the board of trustees. 



California University and Station. — As the result of an enthusiastic meeting 

 in December of the nature-study section of the State Teachers' Association, at 

 which Professor Babcock of the department of agricultural education was 

 elected president of the California branch of the American Nature Study So- 

 ciety, the college of agriculture is giving considerable attention to the promo- 

 tion of nature study in the State, especially through the public schools. There 

 is to be a department of nature study at the next summer session of the 

 university. 



Work is being actively carried on at the substation in the Imperial Valley, 

 for which a state appropriation of .$6,000 is available for the current biennium. 

 The general supervision of the substation has been delegated to Prof. R. E. 

 Smith, who is also supervising in particular the horticultural investigations 

 which are to form a special feature of its work, in addition to his previous 

 duties as plant pathologist and the supervision of the substation at Whittier. 

 W. E. Packard, who received his master's degree at the university in 1909 for 

 special studies in soils and irrigation, is in immediate charge of the Imperial 

 Valley Substation, with headquarters at El Centro. Investigations of live 

 stock diseases have been begun by the assistant veterinarian. 



Florida Station. — John Schnabel, gardener at the Missouri Station, has been 

 appointed assistant in horticulture in charge of gardening, to begin work 

 April 1. 



Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Station. — George W. Kirkaldy, for the past 6 years 

 assistant entomologist, died in San Francisco February 2. following a surgical 

 operation by which he was seeking relief from the results of an accident re- 

 ceived several years before. Mr. Kirkaldy was born and educated in England, 

 and was .30 years of age. 



Iowa College and Station. — The vacancies recently noted in the department of 

 farm crops have been filled by the appointment of H. D. Hughes, of the Missouri 

 University and Station, as professor of farm crops ; H. B. Potter, of the South 

 Dakota College and Station, as assistant professor ; and George Livingston, 

 assistant in agronomy at the Ohio State University, as instructor. 



Kansas College and Station. — C. A. Scott, associate professor of forestry in the 

 Iowa College and forester in the station, has been appointed Kansas state 

 forester, with headquarters at the college, and will enter upon his duties at 

 the close of the collegiate j-ear. 



Michigan Station. — Orrin B. Winter, a graduate of the University of Michi- 

 gan, has accepted the position of assistant chemist, and entered upon his duties 

 February 15. 



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