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under separate management. C. B. Williams, now agrondniist. has been ap- 

 pointed director of the latter. 



Ohio University and Station. — J. W. Decker, professor of dairying in the 

 university, died June 21 of pleuro-pneumonia at his country home near Colum- 

 bus. Miss Minnie A. Stoner, head of the department of domestic science, has 

 resigned to accept the position of dean of women and professor of domestic 

 science in Wyoming University. A cattle building, a stock judging pavilion, 

 and a horse building are under construction at the university and will be com- 

 pleted this fall at a total cost of $80,000. T. F. Manns has been appointed 

 assistant plant pathologist in the station, vice .J. M. Van Hook, who has resigned 

 to accept a position with the University of Indiana. 



Virginia College and Station. — M. P. Jarnagin, J. R. Fain, and P. O. Vanatter 

 have resigned to accept the professorships of animal husbandry and experi- 

 mental agronomy and the superintendeiu-y of field demonstrations, respectively.-' 

 in the Georgia College, to take effect September 1. 



Washington College and Station. — The presidency of the college and director- 

 ship of the station have been separated, and R. W. Thatcher, chemist of the 

 station, has been appointed director, to take effect September l."i. 



West Virginia University and Station. — .John L. Sheldon has been appointed 

 professor of bacteriology and jilant pathology in the medical department of the 

 university and is no longer connected with the station. 



Wisconsin University and Station. — Maz.vck P. Ravenell, Ph. D., late assistant 

 medical director of the Henry. Phipps Institute for Tuberculosis, Philadelphia, 

 has been elected head of the department of bacteriology in the university and 

 station. J. L, Sammis, Ph. D., who has been connected with this Department in 

 its cooperative cheese investigations with the station, has been elected assistant 

 professor of dairying. E. Y. McCollum, Ph. D., of Yale University, and Shin- 

 kichi K. Suzuki, a graduate of Sapporo Agricultural College, have l)een elected, 

 respectively, instructor and research assistant in agricultural chemistry, and 

 A. J. Rogers, jr., and Charles Knight, recent graduates of the college of agricul- 

 ture, assistants in horticulture and in fertilizer and feeding-stuffs inspection, 

 respectively. 



Wyoming University and Station. — I',. C. Buffum. professor of agriculture and 

 horticulture in the university and director of the station, has resigned to engage 

 in commercial work. J. D. Towar, formerly of the Michigan College and Sta- 

 tion, and more recently principal of the Roseworthy Agricultural College in 

 South Australia, has been appointed director and entered upon his duties .July 1. 

 J. A. Hill, a recent graduate in the agricultural course, has been appointed wool 

 expert in the station and placed in charge of its wool investigations under the 

 Adams fund. R. E. Ilyslop. instructor in agronomy in the university and 

 agronomist in the station, has resigned. 



Association of Official Agricultural Chemists. — The twenty-fourth annual con- 

 vention will be held October 0-12 at Norfolk. Ya.. under the ausjiices of the 

 Jamestown Exposition. 



International Congress of Agriculture. — The Kightli International Congress of 

 Agriculture was held at Yienna May 21-20. with over 2.000 delegates and 

 visitors in attendance. Tlie congress was opened by Prince Carl Auersperg. 

 Senator and Ex-Minister of Agriculture Jules Meline, of France, delivered the 

 opening address on The Return to :Mother Earth, in which he made a strong 

 plea for agriculture and rural life, in both its economic and social phases. In 

 his opinion a very marked tendency is now manifested in most countries to give 

 to the tillers of the soil a higher social position. An indication of this was 

 evidenced in the placing of the palatial parliament building at the disposal of 



