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entomological department, have also resigned, the former to accept an assistant 

 professorship at the North Dakota College and the latter an instructorship at 

 the Newark High School. 



North Carolina College and Station. — The appointment is annoimced of J. P. 

 Pillsbury, of the Pennsylvania College and Station, as professor of horticnltnre 

 in the college and horticulturist in the station, vice F. C. Reimer, beginning 

 September 1. Dr. J. D. Cecil, assistant in anatomy and physiology in the 

 college and animal pathologist in the station, resigned July 1 to take up 

 commercial work. 



Oregon Station. — Harry L. Rees, assistant in botany at the University of 

 jNIissouri. has been appointed research assistant in plant pathology and has 

 entered ui)on his duties. 



Tennessee Station. — The appointment is noted of J. I. Hardy as assistant 

 chemist. 



Texas College and Station. — The death on July 26 is noted of Dr. Raymond H. 

 Pond, plant pathologist to the station since 1909. Dr. Pond was born in Kansas 

 March 31, 1875, and received both the bachelor's and master's degi'ees at the 

 Kansas College. Subsequently he studied at the University of Michigan, from 

 which he received the Ph. D. degree in 1902, and at the New York Botanical 

 Garden and at Bonn and Strassburg. Previous to going to Texas he had held 

 a number of positions, among them that of botanist and pathologist at the 

 Maryland College and Station in 1900-1, professor of botany and pharmacogno- 

 sist and director of the microscopical laboratory at Northwestern University in 

 1906-7, and biologist of the Municipal Sewage Commission of New York City 

 in 1908-9. He had also served as a special assistant to the United States Fish 

 Commission. 



C. H. Alvord has resigned as professor of agriculture and superintendent of 

 the college farm to accept a commercial position. 



Utah College and Station. — E. P. Hoff, instructor in zoology and assistant 

 entomologist, has resigned to engage in commercial work, and has been suc- 

 ceeded by M. A. Nelson, a graduate of the college. 



Vermont University and Station. — Andrew A. Borland, assistant in dairy 

 husbandry in the Pennsylvania College and Station, has been appointed pro- 

 fessor of dairying in the university and dairy husbandman in the station. 



Washington College and Station. — Leonard Hegnauer has resigned as pro- 

 fessor of agronomy in the college and agronomist in the station to accept the 

 professorship of crop production in the University of Illinois, and has been 

 succeeded by Dr. Paul J. White, assistant professor of farm crops in Cornell 

 University and Station. Other appointments are those of Charles F. Monroe 

 as instructor in animal husbandi-y in the college and assistant animal hus- 

 bandman in the station and .7. Ti. Stahl as horticulturist of the Puyallup sub- 

 station. 



West Virginia University. — ^A special horticultural train was operated over 

 the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad through the eastern counties of the State August 

 7-11. A special feature of the train was the demonstration of improved methods 

 of packing apples and peaches. The home mixing of fertilizer was demon- 

 strated, and alfalfa and forage crops were also discussed. 



I. S. Cook, jr., a 1906 graduate of Ohio State University, has been appoiuteil 

 associate professor of agronomy. 



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