NOTES. 699 



II. B. Humphrey, the plant pathologist of the station, as head of the new 

 department. 



Wisconsin University and Station. — The state legislature authorized a three- 

 t'ighths of a mill tax for general university purposes. This tax will yield 

 $1,089,000, of which the college of agriculture will receive for the ensuing year 

 approximately $200,000. In addition to this, specific state appropriations for 

 1911 have been made of $40,000, an increa.se of $10,000 for agricultural exten- 

 sion, $4,500 for three demonstration farms, $2,000 for the maintenance of sub- 

 stations, $10,000 for the purchase of stump-pulling machines for experimental 

 work, $10,000 for the soil survey, $75,000 for a home- economics building. .'590,000 

 for an agricultural chemistry building, and $235,000 for 187 acres of land pur- 

 chased by the university adjoining the university farm on the west, and to be 

 used, so far as needed, for agi-icultural work. 



W. D. Hoard, of Fort Atkinson, has resigned as regent. T. E. Brittingham^ 

 of Madison, T. M. Hammond of Wauwatosa, and Elizabeth Waters of Fond 

 du Lac, have succeeded Lucien S. Hanks, Frederick C. Thwaits, and D. P. 

 Lamoreux as members of the board. 



Announcement is made of a new course for public-health officials to be offered 

 during the ensuing year. Applicants must hold a degi'ee in medicine or sani- 

 tary science. The course extends through one year and leads to a diploma in 

 public health. Special prominence is given to bacteriologj' and practical field 

 Avork in the inspection of slaughterhouses, schools, factories, etc., but instruc- 

 tion is also given in physiologj-, zoology, meteorolog}% hydrology, public-health 

 administration and vital statistics, and the microscpie examination of food 

 and drugs. 



F. H. King, widely known for his researches in soil physics and as the 

 inventor of the King system of ventilation, died at his home in Madison, August 

 4, at the age of 63 years. Prof. King was educated at the State Normal 

 School at Whitewater, Wis., and Cornell University. He began his long service 

 in 1873 with the Wisconsin Geological Survey, aiid was professor of natural 

 science in the River Falls State Normal School from 1878 to 1888. In the latter 

 year he was appointed professor of agi'icultural physics in the University of 

 Wisconsin, where in the ensuing 13 years much of his best-known work was 

 done. In 1901 he carried on cooperative studies with this Office on the benefits 

 of irrigation in Wisconsin. Soon afterwards he resigned to assume charge of 

 the division of soil management of the Bureau of Soils of this Department. 

 I^pon relinquishing this position in 1904 he retired from public service, spend- 

 ing his i-emaining years largely in writing. 



Among the many works from his pen are The Economic Relations of Wiscon- 

 sin Birds, 1882; The Soil, 1895; Principles of Agricultural Irrigation and 

 Farm Drainage, 1899; The Physics of Agriculture, 1900; and Ventilation for 

 Dwellings, Rural Schools, and Stables, 1008. He had traveled extensively, and 

 was completing at the time of his death a book entitled Farms of Forty Cen- 

 turies, embodying an account of Chinese and Japanese farming as observed by 

 him during a recent trip to the Orient. 



Wyoming University and Station. — The Wyoming Farm Bulletin is being pub- 

 lished monthly by the college and station staff in succession to the Ranch m<i'n's 

 Reminder. The general scope of the publication remains unchanged aside from 

 the addition of a section for the answering of inquiries. 



S. K. Loy, Ph. D. (Johns Hopkins University), has succeeded Dr. L. Charles 

 Raiford as research chemist at the station. Dr. Raiford having accepted a posi- 

 tion at the University of Chicago. Karl Steik has been appointed assistant 

 chemist to study the effects of alkali on cement. 



