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other appointments include W. F. Handschin, of the Minnesota University- 

 find Station, as assistant animal husbandman; Sleeter Bull as assistant in ani- 

 mal nutrition; Fred Bauer as assistant in soil fertility; Dr. W. B. Gernet as 

 assistant in plant breeding; Harry W. Anderson as assistant in pathological 

 floriculture; and Miss Cora Gray and Miss Pauline Wurster as instructors in 

 household science. F. C. Grannis has resigned as assistant in soil fertility to 

 assume charge of the agricultural department of McKendree College. 



Kansas College and Station. — Drs. E. C. Miller and N. E. Stevens have been 

 appointed instructors in botany in the college and assistant plant physiologist 

 and assistant plant pathologist, respectively, in the station. 



Michigan College and Station. — Dr. William H. Brown has resigned as rfr 

 search assistant in plant physiology to become plant physiologist of the Philii> 

 pine Bureau of Science, and has been succeeded by Dr. R. P. Hibbard, of tha 

 Mississippi College and Station. 



Montana College and Station. — D. C. Cochran, assistant chemist since August 

 1, has returned to the Pennsylvania Institute of Animal Nutrition. W. F. 

 Schoppe has been granted leave of absence for one year and has accepted a 

 position as instructor in animal industi-y at the University of Maine, vphere he 

 will also engage in graduate worli. 



Nebraska University -Val Keyser has resigned to engage in practical horti- 

 culture in eastern Nebraska. C. W. Pugsley has been appointed head of the 

 agricultural extension department, also retaining charge of investigations in 

 farm management. 



New Hampshire College. — J. H. Foster, of the Forest Service of this Depart- 

 ment has been appointed professor of forestry, and has entered upon his duties. 



New York State Station. — Rudolph J. Anderson has been appointed associate 

 chemist and Orrin B. Winter, of the Michigan College, assistant chemist. 



Cornell University and Station. — The extension work in the college of agri- 

 culture, for which the State has appropriated $50,000, is to be administered by 

 special officers in the various subject matter departments, and also by a sepa- 

 rate department of extension teaching. This separate department is to have 

 charge of such publicity and organizing work as does not fall to the subject 

 matter of the different departments, such as lecture courses, reading courses, 

 itinerant schools, farm trains, and the like. Clyde H. Myers is to be extension 

 instructor in plant breeding, R. P. Trask assistant in extension work in poultry 

 husbandry, E. R. Minns assistant professor in extension work in farm crops, 

 and Mrs. Ida S. Harrington instructor in extension work in home economics. 



The work in farm management has been organized as a separate department, 

 with G. F. Warren as head, K. C. Livermore as assistant professor, and A. L. 

 Thompson as instructor. The work in farm crops has been united with the 

 department of farm practice and is in charge of Prof. J. L. Stone. 



The department of entomology is now known as the department of ento- 

 mology, biology, and nature study, with Prof. J. H. Comstock as head of the 

 department; Dr. J. G. Needham professor of general biology, linmology, and 

 nature study ; Dr. W. A. Riley assistant professor of entomology ; Glenn W. 

 Herricl\; assistant professor of economic entomology ; James C. Bradley assistant 

 professor of systematic entomology ; and Anna B. Comstock lecturer in nature 

 study, together with a number of assistants and instructors. 



In the department of plant pathology D. Reddick has been advanced to a 

 full professorship, M. F. Barrus has been made assistant professor in extension 

 teaching, and Charles Gregory assistant in grape-disease investigations. 



E. O. Fippiu is to have charge of the extension work in soil technology, par- 

 ticularly of the soil surveys. Other changes include the advancement of 



