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istry at the college practically since its establishment and chemist to the State 

 board of agriculture since 1873. In 1882, upon the establishment of the State 

 Experiment Station, he became its director and chemist, remaining in this 

 capacity until its union with the Hatch Experiment Station. Since that time 

 he has been chemist to the station, and a year ago was made honorary 

 director. He will continue to act as. consulting chemist to the station. C. Wel- 

 lington, associate professor of chemistry, has been appointed professor of 

 chemistry in tlie college. 



The chemical work of the station has been united and amplified into a 

 department of plant and animal chemistry, under the direction of J. B. Llndsey, 

 of the division of foods and feeding, as chemist. K. l'>. Holland, as associate 

 chemist, will have charge of a research division, 11. 1). Haskins of the fer- 

 tilizer control work, and P. H. Suutli of the feed and dairy division. R. D. Mac- 

 Laurin, Ph. D., at present of the Rockefeller Institute, has been engaged as a 

 chemist in the research division. G. II. Chapman, a recent graduate of the 

 college, has been appointed assistant in the department of botany and plant 

 Itathology in the station, vice N. F. Monahan, resigned. P. A. Russell, of Great 

 Harrington, has been appointed to the board of trustees. 



In the college the department of horticulture has been reorganized as a 

 division of horticulture, to include at present departments of pomolog.v, land- 

 scape gardening, and floriculture. F. A. Waugh is the head of the new division, 

 witli the title of professor of general horticulture and professor of landscape 

 gardening, and E. A. White will continue in charge of the work in floriculture. 

 F. C. Sears, professor of horticulture in Nova Scotia Agricultural College, has 

 been appointed to the professorship of pomology, and F. M. Gracey, a graduate 

 of the Massachusetts Normal Art School, has been made assistant in landscape 

 gardening. S. B. Haskell, instructor in agriculture, has been granted a year's 

 leave of al)sence for graduate work at the University of Leipsic. 



Minnesota University and Station. — W. M. Liggett has resigned as dean and 

 director on account of failing health, and has been appointed superintendent of 

 the Grand Rapids Substation. He is succeeded by E. W. Randall, of the board 

 of regents. 



Missouri University. — John M. Evvard, a graduate of the T'niversity of 

 Illinois, has lieen api)ointetI assistant to the dean. 



New Jersey Stations. — The resignation is noted of Miss J. A. Voorhees, 

 assistant horticulturist. 



New York State Station. — Appointments have been made as follows : .T. G. 

 Grossenliacher as assistant botanist, M. J. Dorsey as assistant horticulturist, and 

 Otto McCreary and J. T. Cusick as assistant chemists. 



North Carolina Stations. — The experimental work of the State board of 

 agriculture has been organized as an experiment station, to be known as the 

 Agricultural Experiment Station of the North Carolina State Department of 

 Agriculture, and with the following staff: B. W. Kilgore, director, farm crops; 

 Tait Butler, veterinarian, animal husbandry; W. N. Hutt, horticulturist; 

 Franklin Sherman, jr.. entomologist ; T. B. I'arker, cooperative experiments ; 

 W. M. Allen, chemist, foods ; C. D. Harris, assistant chemist and microscopist, 

 stock feeds ; Miss II. M. Card, assistant chemist, foods ; J. M. Pickel, W. G. 

 Haywood, L. L. Brinkley. and S. O. Perkins, assistant chemists; G. M. Mac- 

 Nider. soils : L. M. Smith, assistant entomologist, and R. W. Scott, F. T. 

 Meacham. J. H. .Tefferies, and R. W. Collett, superintendents of the substa- 

 tions at Edgecombe, Iredell, I'ender, and Transylvania, respectively. Of these, 

 Messrs. Kilgore. Butler, Hutt, and Sherman have resigned corresponding posi- 

 tions in the college station, which, as previously announced, is to be maintained 



