NOTES. 895 



uiidci- tlic (lii'cctioii of T. !•'. Hunt. The object of the work is to detormlno not 

 only what incomes are received li'oin investments of from $(5,000 to $120,000, Imt 

 also, if possible, wiial classes of investments j^ive relatively the best retnrns. 



We note from i)ress reports the dedication of the new buildinj^s of the college 

 of agriculture on April 27. in conjunction with the celebration of the centennial 

 anniversary of the birth of Ezr.-i Cornell. Addresses were delivered by Presi- 

 dent Sclinrm;in. (Jovernor Hughes, Ex-Governor Woodford, N. J. ^Rachel(l(>r, 

 master of tlie .\;itional (Jrange, and Dean Baile.y. 



North Carolina College and Station. — At the recent session of the legislature 

 the ni.inagemeiit of the college and station, previously assigned to the State 

 lioard of agricultnn>, was vested in a new board of control of 16 members. 

 This board is entirely distinct from the State board of agriculture, which will 

 continue to direct the experimental work of the State department of agriculture. 



Pennsylvania College and Station. — 1'.. K. Fernow, who had temporarily ac- 

 cepted the professorship of forestr.v, has been appointed dean of the faculty of 

 forestry at the University of Toronto, where, according to a note in Science, it 

 is proposed to organize the most complete system of forestry education on this 

 continent. It is expected that a large forest reservation will be set aside for 

 I lie use of tlic Toronto school, and iniiversit.v extension work of the broadest 

 kind is conti-mplated. 



M. H. Piugree and P. W. Flint have resigned from the station staff, and G. C. 

 Watson, agriculturist, has been given leaye of absence until August 1, 1908. 

 F. S. I'utney, assistant iu agronomy and animal industry, has been transferred 

 to the division of animal nutrition. Recent appointments include, in the station, 

 Albert R. Merz as assistant chemist and Robert A. Lichtenthaler as assistant in 

 animal nutrition ; and in the college, John P. Stewart as assistant professor 

 of expi>rimental horticulture, who is making a special study of tlie apple in 

 I'<Muis.vlv;inia. 



Texas College and Station. — E. C. Green, instructor in horticultiu'e iu the 

 collegi' and assistant horticulturist of the station, has been placed in charge of 

 the Texas Plant Introduction Garden at Brownsville, a branch of the Bureau 

 of Plant Industry of this Department. 



The total appropriation for the college and station for the ensuing biennium 

 aggregates $;)4(;,;{70, b.y far the largest appropriation in tlie history of the col- 

 lege. Of this amount $2,000 is for publications, $1-I:,000 for the two substations. 

 The remainder is for repairs and new buildings, including a farm-implement 

 building to cost $4,000, a dormitory, an engineering building, a natatorium, a 

 veterinar.v hospital, and live-stock sheds. The increased appropriation will 

 enable the college to strengthen much of the work already under way and to 

 establish new departments, especiall.v a dei)artment of agricultural extension 

 work. 



(". II. Alvord has been elected to the chair of agriculture in the college, vice 

 F. S. Johnston, resigned. Mr. Alvord was assistant professor of agriculture at 

 the college in 1001 and 1902, and has since been engaged in farming in 

 .Michigan. 



Utah College and Station. — The Utah legislature adjourned March 22 after a 

 session during wbicli a determined effort to unite the college with the State uni- 

 versity, either ity consolidation on one site or b.v means of a joint board with 

 separate maintenance, was unsuc<-essful. The appropriations for both the col- 

 lege and station were much reduced. For the next biennium .f90,0(X) was ai)i)ro- 

 I)riated for the college, $10,000 for investigations in dry farming, and $5,000 for 

 investigations in irrigation and drainage, in cooperation with this Office. Hon. 

 W. S. McCornick, who has served as president of the board of trustees since the 



