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ologist. vice John H. Gordon, resigned to engage in commercial worlv ; and F. W. 

 Becl^man, a newspaper writer of the State, as editor of the college and station 

 pnblications. 



Kentucky Station. — Recent aiJiwintments inclnde J. H. Kastle as research 

 cJjemist. H. II. Jewett and H. R. Niswenger as assistant entomologists and 

 botanists, and L. S. Corbett as assistant in animal bnsbandry. 



Massachusetts College and Station. — The trustees have voted to dissolve the 

 relationship with Boston University by which the college has, since 1875, con- 

 stituted the college of agriculture of the university. Plans were adopted for 

 the formal conveyance of the pi'operty of the college to the State in accordance 

 with a recent state law declaring the college a State institution. It was also 

 decided to charge tuition to students in the winter courses and to nonresidents 

 of the State who enter the regular four-year course after 1912. 



A total of 17 new appointments to the faculty has been announced. Among 

 these are Robert J. Sprague. of the University of Minnesota,* as head of the 

 division of the humanities and professor of economics and sociology ; Edward 

 M. Lewis as assistant professor of English and assistant dean ; Frederick L. 

 Yeaw, of the California Station, as assistant professor in market gardening, 

 vice Charles S. Heller, resigned; Dr. George E. Gage, of the Maryland Station, 

 as assistant professor of animal pathology ; Arthur K. Harrison as instructor 

 in landscape gardening, vice John Noyes, resigned ; Elvin L. Quaife as instructor 

 in animal husbandry ; Frederick A. McLaughlin, a 1911 graduate of the college, 

 as assistant in botany ; Herbert J. Baker, also a 1911 graduate, as assistant in 

 the department of agronomy and secretary to the director of the station ; and 

 R. W. Ruprecht as assistant chemist in the feed and fertilizer inspection depart- 

 ment in the station. 



The chemical department of the college has been reorganized under the 

 direction of Dr. J. B. Uindsey of the station, with Dr. Charles Wellington as 

 professor of analytical chemistry and Dr. Charles A. Peters, formerly of the 

 University of Idaho, as professor of inorganic and soil chemistry. 



Michigan College and Station. — John W. Beaumont and Jason Woodman have 

 been appointed to the governing board, vice W. L. Carpenter and W. J. Ober- 

 dorffer, taking office January 1, 1912. George Bouyoucos, Ph. D., has been ap- 

 pointed research assistant in soil physics, and F. Hasserlink van Suchtelen, 

 Ph. D., research assistant in bacteriology. A soil house has been constructed 

 for the soil investigations conducted under the Adams Act, and a piggery has 

 been completed for the manufacture of the Dorset-Niles hog cholera serum. 

 An addition to the chemical laboratory is in process of erection. 



Minnesota University and Station. — Minnesota Farm Review announces the 

 appointment of R. M. Washburn, of the Vermont University and Station, as 

 associate professor of dairy husbandry and dairy husbandman, who entered, 

 upon his duties Septenlber 1. 



Missouri University and Station. — J. A. Ferguson, assistant professor of for- 

 estry and forester in the Pennsylvania College and Station, has been appointed 

 professor of forestry. The college owns 50,000 acres of forest land in south 

 Missouri, and these will be utilized in connection with the forestry instruction. 



A. J. Meyers, of Howell, :\Iich., has been appointed superintendent of the short 

 winter courses and assistant to the dean, with the rank of assistant professor. 

 Other appointments include the following assistants: E. G. Woodward and 

 W. W. Wobus in dairy husbandry, the latter vice E. G. Maxwell, resigned ; 

 W. E. J. Edwards, a graduate of the Ontario Agricultural College, in animal 

 husbandry ; J. P. Dunn and E. C. Hall in the state soil survey work ; C. A. 

 Le Clair in agronomy; E. E. Vanatta in agricultural chemistry in the station; 

 and O. R. Johnson in farm management. Walter E. Camp has been appointed 



