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ber of- the board. The following new nppointineuts were made: J. A. Hyde, 

 Nephi; Angus T. Wright, Ogden ; J. M. Peterson. Richfield, and C. S. Tiugey, 

 secretary of state. Salt Lake City (ex officio). 



A. bill was passed allowing the college to offer degree courses in agricultural 

 engineering, this to include courses in irrigation, drainage, public roads, water 

 supi)lies and sanitation, farm buildings, and farm machinery. 



Special laws were enactetl grjuiting permanent annual appropriations for the 

 maintenance of the extension work and of the experiment station. These pro- 

 vide .$2(),(X)0 for extension work and $30,000 for the experiment station during 

 the biennium. A special appropriation of $50,000 was made for a gymnasium, 

 to which Hon. Thomas Smart, of the board of trustees, added $10,000, and from 

 other sources $5,000 more was contributed. Forty thousjind dollars was also 

 appropriated for a power and light plant. The lands and buildings of the 

 Pauguitch Indian School, recently turned over to the State, were transferred 

 to the experiment station, together with an appropriation of $2,.'j<M) for equii)- 

 uient. These appropriations, together with the mill tax, will give the institu- 

 tion a little more than $;jOO,000 for the biennium. 



With the increase iu funds for extension work, Prof. J. C. Hogenson will 

 devote his whole time to the extension dei)artment, being located iu Salt Lake 

 City: Prof. John T. Caine, III, will give the greater part of his time to 

 extension work, and a domestic science teacher for extension work will be 

 employed. 



' F. S. Harris, formerly assistant chemist of the station, and more recently 

 assistant iu soils at Cornell University, has been appointed agronomist of the 

 college and station. Mr. Harris takes his doctor's degree at Cornell this year. 

 Ernest Carrol, M. Sc, of the University of Illinois, was appointed assistant 

 professor of animal husbandry and associate in the station work. Frank L. 

 West takes his I'h. D. from the University of Chicago this year and retui-ns to 

 his position as i)rofessor of i)hysics. He will take up work in meteorology and 

 soil physics with the station. C. X. Jensen, an assistant in plant pathology at 

 Cornell University, has been aitpointed professor of botany and plant pathology 

 and plant pathologist of the station. Mr. Jensen has been gr.inted leave until 

 January 1, 1912, in order to complete his work at Cornell. 



E. G. Peterson, professor of bacteriology at the Oregon Agricultural College, 

 has been appointed professor of bacteriology in the college. Prof. Peterson 

 will receive his Ph. D. from Cornell this year. Prof. E. G. Titus, on leave for 

 postgraduate work in Har\ard University, returned July 1. J. E. Greaves, 

 associate chemist, has returned from postgraduate work in the University of 

 California with the degree of Ph. D. Erastus Peterson, assistant in agronomy, 

 resigned in April to enter commercial work. A. E. Bowman, of the graduating 

 class, has been appointed to the position. L. M. Winsor, another graduate, has 

 been appointed assistant in agronomy and irrigation, and has taken charge of 

 the cooperative work with the settlers on the recently opened Uintah Reserva- 

 tion. Fred Froerer, another graduate, has been app'Ointed assistant in dairy- 

 ing and will take charge of cooperative milk testing work in the State. 



Vermont "University. — Dr. Cyrus G. Pringle. curator of the herb.'.rium for 

 many years and an early plant breeder and botanical collector, died ISIay 25 at 

 the age of 73 years. 



Dr. Pringle began his extensive collections in 1ST4, and in the years follow- 

 ing covered especially the Rocky Mountain region in this country and the entire 

 territory of Mexico, for which country he was for several years official col- 

 lector and on the flora of which he became a recognized authority. He had 

 been botanical collector for Harvard University since 18.S5, and for several 

 years forestry and botanical collector for tlie American Museum of Natural 



