298 EXPERIMENT STATION RECORD. 



New Hampshire College and Station. — Harry F. Hall, formerly assistant ii» 

 liorticulturc. has hi't'ii aiipointeri horticulturist to sucot'ed F. W. Kane, whose 

 resignation has heen previously noted. 



Cornell University and Station. — Charles II. Tuck, a graduate of the univer- 

 sity in 1906, has, according to the Cornell Cotintnjmun. heen appointed super- 

 visor of the farmers' reading courses, vice G. W. Ilorsford. who has entered the 

 employ of this Department. Henry Jennings, a f!)rnier student, is rei)orted as 

 having accepted a position as poultrynian at the Maryland Station. Dr. C. II. 

 Rohei-ts, a practicing dentist of Ulster County, N. Y.. has recently endowed five 

 scholarships in the College of Agriculture, donating .^:!(I.(100 for the imrpose. 



Oregon College and Station. — C. E. Bradley, formerly head of the chemical 

 department of I'acific University, has heen api)ointed assistant chemist in the 

 station, and W. II. Wicks, a graduate of the Oregon College, has heen appointed 

 assistant horticulturist. A contract has recently heen let for the erection of a 

 women's i)uilding, to cost .$71..>00. 



Virginia College and Station. — Dr. .1. M. McBryde has lioon tendered a pen- 

 _sion under the retirement fund of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advance- 

 ment of Teaching. It is reported that he will retire at the close of the present 

 college year. 



The director and several iiieniliers of the station staft' were charged with the 

 management of the live stock department of the State fair, recently held at 

 Richmond. The station made an exhibit of potatoes, tobaccos, and cereals in 

 the grain and straw, which attracted a great deal of attentidn. A working 

 dairy was also ojierated dining the fair. 



Armour Agricultural Scholarships. — .J. Ogden Armour has offered to the presi- 

 dent of the International Live Stock Exposition the sum of $5,000 to be distrib- 

 uted annually at the exposition in 20 agricultural scholarships to be competed f<n- 

 b.y the State agricultural colleges at the exposition. In a letter to the president 

 of the exposition he states that these scholarships are given in recognition of 

 the work done b.v the agricultural colleges " in advancing the cause of agricul- 

 tural education in this country through the character and extent of their exhibits 

 of- live stock and field products at the international show." 



The competition is to be based upon the animal and grain exhibits from the 

 several colleges and such other forms of agricultural student competition as ma.v 

 \>e recognized or established by the exposition. The details are to' be determined 

 by the management, and the scholarships are to be known as the J. Ogden 

 Armour scholarships. The gift has been accepted by President Spoor.. 



Meeting of the International Congress of Applied Botany. — A meeting of the 

 committee on applied botany, appointed by the Botanical Congress of Vienna 

 in 1905, was held in Paris August 25 and 26, 1906, for the purpose of organiza- 

 tion and formulating plans for investigation. The committee adopted as a pre- 

 liminary programme a resolution providing for the appointment of a competent 

 investigator to visit all parts of the world and study what has been done in 

 applied botany along the lines of agriculture and horticulture, and the methods 

 and facilities of such investigations. This inspection is to 1)e made and a report 

 submitted at the next meeting of the association in lOOS, To meet the expense 

 of this trip the committee undertakes to raise a fund of $4,000 by subscriptions 

 from societies and individuals interested in the various lines where botany 

 touches upon agriculture and horticulture. The choice of the traveling inspector 

 Avas left to a committee consisting of Messrs. Fruwirth. de .Taczewski. ^Marchal. 

 Ph. de Vilmorin, and Trabut. . 



A second connnittee, consisting of de Jaczewski, Proost. Schilbersky, Trabut. 

 and Brie]-, was appointed to make a study and report upon the legal means 

 adopted by all countries to prevent the introduction and spread of plant para- 



