NOTES 



Delaware Station. — Dr. J. J. Taubenhaus has been made associate research 

 plant pathologist. 



Purdue University. — Oscar G. Anderson has been appointed instructor in 

 pomology in the school of agriculture. 



Maryland College and Station. — The faculty has voted to grant annually a 

 restricted number of certificates of merit (usually three) to men who have 

 achieved distinction in some field of agricultural activity, and in this way 

 tended to advance the economic, sociaJ, or moral conditions of rural life. For 

 the present these honors are to be confined to citizens of the State, but ulti- 

 mately it is planned to remove this limitation. 



O. E. Temple, botanist at the Idaho University and Station, has been ap- 

 pointed associate pathologist In the state horticultural work. 



Massachusetts College. — The addition to French Hall has been completed and 

 ia being occupied by the department* of forestry and market gardening. 



Recent appointments include H. B. Baldinger as assistant in dairying, Loyal 

 F. Payne, poultryman of the Oklahoma College and Station, as instructor in 

 poultry husbandry, Benjamin W. Ellis as extension instructor in farm manage- 

 ment, and Miss Harriet J. Hopkins as extension instructor in home economics. 

 Promotions include E. D. Quaife as assistant professor of animal husbandry, 

 A. H. Nehrling as associate professor of floriculture, F. H. Van Suchtelen as 

 asssociate professor of microbiology, B. N. Gates as associate professor of bee 

 keeping, B. Anderson as associate professor of chemistry, and R. H. Bogue as 

 instructor in chemistry. A. A. Brown, instructor in poultry husbandry and 

 Ivan McKellip. instructor in dairying, have resigned. 



Michigan College and Station. — H. T. Darlington of the Washington College has 

 been nppointod assistant professor of botany and will have special charge of the 

 botanical garden and herbarium. E. F. Woodcock of the botanical department 

 of West Virginia University has been appointed instructor in botany, vice Dr. 

 Ruth F. Allen, resigned to accept a similar position in Wellesley College. S. P. 

 Doolittle, a 1914 graduate of the college, has been appointed to an industrial 

 fellowship in cucumber diseases recently eistablished by the H. J. Heinz Pickle 

 Company. 



New Hampshire College and Station. — Ford S. Prince, Instructor in soils in 

 the Michigan College, has been appointed instructor in agronomy in the college 

 and assistant agronomist in the station. 



Texas College. — Press reports announce the appointment as president of Dr. 

 W. B. Bizzell, since 1910 president of the college of industrial arts at Denton, 

 Texas. 



Wisconsin University. — J. F. Wojta has been appointed superintendent of 

 agricultural extension courses and Fred H. Scribner field agent in animal 

 hfusbaudry. 



