NOTES, 



Alabama College and Station. — W. T. Clarke, entomologist, has resigned. The 

 college announces the establishment of a 3-year degree course in veterinary 

 medicine and surgery and of a chair of animal industry. D. T. Gray, formerly 

 assistant in animal industry, has been appointed to the latter position and will 

 divide his time between college and station work. A. J. Norman, a graduate 

 of the Iowa College, has been appointed assistant in horticulture in the college 

 and station, vice C. F. Kinman. who has resigned to accept a position with the 

 Cuban Experiment Station. Plans are under way for the erection of a central 

 dining hall and an infirmary. 



Alabama Tuskegee Institute and Station. — P. C. Parks, farm superintendent, 

 has resigned to assume ch.-irge of tlie agricultural department of Clark Uni- 

 versity at Atlanta, Ga. 



Arizona Station. — E. E. Free, assistant chemist, has resigned and will be 

 succeeded by W. H. Ross, of the University of Chicago. The vacancy in the 

 horticultural deijartment occasioned by the resignation of V. A. Clark, previ- 

 ously noted, has been filled l)y the appointment of J. E. Coit, of Cornell 

 University. 



California University and Station. — A dairy building, stock pavilion, and two 

 cottages are being erected on the new farm at Davisville. Short courses will 

 be opened there in the fall. Considerable experimental work is being planned. 



Florida "University and Station. — E. H. Sellards. professor of zoology and 

 geology in the university and geologist in the station, has resigned to become 

 State geologist. 



Iowa College. — The cornerstone of the new four-story agricultural building 

 was laid June G by Gov. A. B. Cummins, and the first story is now well 

 under way. As planned, the building will have a frontage of 234 feet and a 

 depth of 78 feet, besides an assembly-room wing with a frontage of 92 feet and 

 a depth of 69 feet. Fireproof construction is to be used throughout, with 

 granite base and Bedford stone walls, and the total cost with equipment will be 

 about .$350,000. Arrangements have been made for the completion of the equip- 

 ment on the poultry and dairy farm. The area of the college farm and grounds 

 has l)een incre.-ised l)y recent imrchases to a total of al)out 1.200 acres. 



Maine University and Station. — Hon. S. W. Gould, of Skowhegan, has been 

 appointed a memlier of the committee of the trustees on tlie experiment station, 

 in the place of Hon. A. J. Durgin. L. H. Merrill, chemist to the station, has 

 also been appointed professor of biological chemistry in the university. R. C. 

 Gellerson, a recent graduate of the university, has been appointed inspector 

 under the laws regulating the sale of feeding stuffs, seeds, fertilizers, foods, and 

 drugs. W. M. Munson. for more than fifteen years horticulturist of the station, 

 has resigned to accept a similar position at the West Virginia Station, where 

 special enqiliasis will !»e given to i>lant l)reeding in its relation to pomology. 



Massachusetts College and Station. — The Carnegie Foundation for the Ad- 

 vancement of Teaching has tendered a jiension to Dr. C. A. Goessmann, and 

 his retirement is announced. Doctor Goessmann has been professor of cliem- 



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