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department of soils and will have charge of the college classes and the experi- 

 mental work. J. B. Thompson, recently appointed assistant in horticulture, has 

 resigned to accept a position in the Philippine department of agriculture, and Is 

 succeeded by Lorenz Greene, a graduate of the Kansas College. It is planned to 

 add an irrigation engineer to the station staff in the near future. 



Cornell TTniversity and Station. — H. J. Webber, in charge of plant-breeding 

 work in this department, has been appointed professor of plant biology, and 

 will enter vipon his new position in the spring. J. E. Coit, J. P. Stewart,-'and 

 W. H. Griffiths have been added to the department of horticulture. 



Oregon College. — A 4-year course in forestry, leading to the degree of B. S., 

 has been added to the curriculum. 



Pennsylvania College and Station. — Thomas F. Hunt, of Cornell, has been 

 appointed dean of the college of agriculture and director of the station. He will 

 'continue in his present position until the close of the college year, giving a part 

 of his time to planning for the future development of the work in Pennsylvania. 



Vermont University and Station. — C. L. Beach, in charge of dairying at the 

 Connecticut Storrs College and Station, has been placed in charge of the work 

 in dairy husbandry in the Vermont University and Station. A. P. Bigelow, a 

 former student at the dairy school, will be dairyman at the station, vice C. L. 

 Stygles, resigned. It is expected rapidly to increase the work in diarying. 



Armour Scholarships. — At a joint meeting of representatives of many of the 

 agricultural colleges and the managers of the International Stock Show plans 

 for the distribution of the Armour scholarships were decided upon. One scholar- 

 ship will be given to each college leading at the exposition in judging horses, 

 cattle, swine, sheep, and corn, one to the college making the best exhibit of feed 

 stuffs, and one to the college making the highest average. The remaining 13 

 will be apportioned according to the winnings of the colleges at the show, except 

 that no college may receive more than 40 per cent of the total number. The 

 aw^arding of the scholarships to students will be done by the respective colleges. 



Madras Agricultural College. — A new agricultural college and research insti- 

 tute for Madras is now in course of erection. In 190.5 a grant to the presidency 

 by the government of India of $50,000 per annum, which was subsequently in- 

 creased to $100,000, added to the allotment made by the government of Madras 

 removed all financial difficulty experienced by the Madras agricultural depart- 

 ment. The result of this improved financial condition was the decision of the 

 government to close the agricultural college at Saidapet and establish a new 

 college and research institute, adequately equipped with laboratories and class- 

 rooms and with a suitable farm near Coimbatore. 



The staff will consist of an expert agriculturalist as the principal of the col- 

 lege, a superintendent of the central farm, a government botanist, and an agri- 

 cultural chemist. Ultimately an entomologist and mycologist may be added. 

 The staff will combine teaching with research work. Problems connected with 

 the agriculture of the presidency will be studied in the laboratory and the field, 

 w^hile the students will be given a general education in all branches of agri- 

 cultural science. 



Vacation Forestry Excursions. — The Royal Agricultural College of Ciren- 

 cester has instituted for its forestry students a series of annual vacation excur- 

 sions to the German forests. The initial excursion included visits to the Ober- 

 forsterei of Darmstadt, the oak and pine woods of Viernheim, the large coppice 

 in the Odenwald now under conversion to high forests, and some of the Heidel- 

 berg woods. Shorter excursions to forest areas in England and Wales are 

 frequent during the college year. 



Association of Official Agricultural Chemists. — This association held its 



