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upon his dnties May 1. M. A. Yotliers, assistant entomologist of the Michigan 

 College and Station, has been appointetl assistant entomologist in the station 

 and began work Aj)ril 1. Ira P. Whitney, instructor in dairying in the college, 

 has resigned to engage in commercial woiiv. 



Wisconsin University. — Eric W. Miller, of the Weather Bureau station at 

 Madison, has been appointed lecturer in meteorology. Eecent promotions in- 

 clude as associate professors, E. V. McCollum in agricultural chemistry, and 

 J. G. Moore in horticulture; and as assistant professors, W. E. Tottingham in 

 agricultural chemistry, O. J. Delwiche and A. L. Stone in agi'onomy, and G. H. 

 Benkendorf in dairy husbandry. 



Summer Schools of Agriculture.- — Of the large number of institutions which 

 are to hold summer courses in agriculture and related subjects this year, an- 

 nouncements are available for the following : At the Connecticut Agricultural 

 College, July 5-29, in cooperation with the Williniantic State Normal School ; 

 at the University of Illinois, beginning June 20, six weeks' and nine weeks' 

 courses for teachers: at the Kansas State Agricultural College, beginning June 

 14, six weeks' courses primarily for teachers; at the Western Kentucky State 

 Normal School, Bowling Green, June 14 to July 22; at the Massachusetts Agri- 

 cultural College in bee keeping. May 2.5 to June S, and a large number of courses 

 especially for teachers, clergymen, and others, July 11 to August 12 ; at the 

 Univei'sity of Minnesota,- June 20 to July 29, elementary courses primarily for 

 teachei's; at the North Carolina College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts, May 

 16-28, in nature study and agriculture for rural teachers; at the North Dakota 

 Agricultural College, June 6 to July 22, in traction engineering; at the State 

 Normal School, ^'aIley City, N. Dak., July 19 to August 27; at the Oregon State 

 Agricultural College, from June 20 to August 6; at the Rhode Island College, 

 July 11-2.3 ; at the South Dakota State College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts, 

 from June 22 to July 13; at the University of Tennessee, from June 21 to July 

 29; at the Texas Agricultural and Mechanical College, from June 20 to July 29; 

 at the University of Texas, from June IS to August 4; at the North Texas State 

 Normal College, Denton, Tex., for eight weeks, beginning June 1 ; at Baylor 

 University, Waco, Tex., from June 27 to August 19; at Hampton Normal and 

 Agricultural Institute, from June 14 to July 12; at the State College of Wash- 

 ington, June 20 to July 29 ; and at the University of Wisconsin, from June 27 

 to August 0. 



A Standard Course in Forestry. — The Forestnj Quarterly for March states that 

 at a conference of forest schools held in Washington, D. C, on December .30-31, 

 1909, 1.5 universities and colleges giving instruction in forestry were represented. 

 A committee, consisting of Forester H. S. Graves, of Professors Fernow, Roth, 

 and Fisher, and of Gifford Pinchot, rei)orted to the conference a plan for estab- 

 lishing a minimum standard curriculum in forestry and looking toward the 

 permanent organization of a forest conference. This report was adopted and 

 the committee continued, with power to call a meeting of such a conference and 

 to formulate a constitution for the proposed association, and, in consultation 

 with the Forest Service and other employers of foresters, to prepare a standard 

 of forest education. 



Opening of New School of Agriculture Building at Cambridge University. — The 

 new building of the school of agriculture at Cambridge University was formally 

 opened April 26 by the Duke of Devonshire. The building is an imiwsing three- 

 story structure in addition to the basement and attic, and contains three lecture 

 rooms, two large elementary laboratories for chemistry and botany, smaller 

 rooms for private research, and a library and ofHces. The cost of the building 

 was about .$100,000. It was designed to accommodate one hundred students, 

 but is alreadj' barely adequate for the needs of the work. 



