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structed. at a cost of about $1.(»()0, for use in eonnectiou with the botanical work 

 of the college and station. 



Nevada University and Station. — X. E. Wilson, for 15 years chemist of the 

 station, and more recently in charge of the chemical work of the university, has 

 been granted a two-years' leave of absence. He will be the manager of a large 

 wholesale and retail drug business, with an analytical laboratory connected. 

 Dr. Maxwell Adams, a graduate of Stanford University, assumes his work as 

 professor of chemistry in the university, and S. C. Dinsmore, assistant chemist, 

 will have charge of the station work. 



New Hampshire College and Station. — F. W. Rane, horticulturist in the col- 

 lege and station, has resigned to accept the position of State forester of Massa- 

 chusetts, with headquarters at Boston. The former forester, Alfred Akerman, 

 resigned during the summer to accept a position elsewhere. 



New York State Station. — W. E. Tottingham, assistant chemist, has resigned 

 Ills position to become instructor in agricultural chemistry at the University of 

 Wisconsin. II., J. Eustace, assistant botanist, has accepted a position in the 

 Bureau of Flant Industry, this Department. 



Oklahoma College and Station. — F. O. Burtis has resigned his position in 

 charge of animal husbandry, and has been succeeded by W. F. McDonald, of 

 Teeswater, Canada. L. A. Moorhouse has returned from a year's leave of ab- 

 sence and taken charge of the department of agronomy. 



Rhode Island Station. — Leon J. Cole, Ph. D., of Harvard University, has been 

 appointed chief of the division of animal breeding and pathology. W. F. Pur- 

 rington, of the New Hampshire College, and H. S. Hammond, of the Ontario 

 Agricultural College, have been appointed assistant chemists in the station. 



A new horticultural building and greenhouse is being built with a State ap- 

 propriation of .$15,000. Accommodations for station work will be provided in 

 one wing of the greenhouse. 



Virginia Station. — Seymour M. Herrlck, a graduate of Cornell University, has 

 been api)ointed assistant chemist. Cooperative arrangements have been made 

 between the U. S. Deijartment (jf Agriculture, the State board of agriculture, 

 and the Virginia Station, for work in the trucking region of the State. The new 

 agricultural hall is nearing completion. Arrangements have been made for the 

 construction of two large fermentation cellars, which will be artificially re- 

 frigerated, for the purpose of studying the production of vinegar and other 

 fermented products of the apple. 



Washington Station. — II. R. Watkins, instructor in chemistry at the Kansas 

 College, has been ai)pointed assistant chemist in the station. 



West Virginia Station. — The death is reported of A. L. Post, assistant bac- 

 teriologist in the station. 



Experiment Station for Economic Botany in Sweden. — The establishment of a 

 botanical experiment station near Landskrona, Sweden, is noted in the t^cicn- 

 tific American. This station, named Esperanza, which has been established by 

 a bequest of Oscar I*]kman, is intended solely for investigations of an economic 

 nature, such as the cultivation of medicinal, pigment, and fiber plants. The 

 station was dedicated in July and consists of a museum and experimental 

 fields. Two directors have been appointed, Tom von Post, a practical botanist, 

 formerly director of the seed-control station at I'psala, and author of the Lexi- 

 con Generum Chanerogamarum. and Iljalniar Lindstnlm, in charge of the phar- 

 maceutical side of the work. 



Bacteriological Laboratory at Rothamsted. — On Julj' 19 at the Rothamsted 

 Experiment Station occurred the formal opening of a new laboratory erected 

 and partially endowed (.$250 a year) by J. F. Mason, M. P., in memory of his 



