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Samuel X. Spring, state forester of Connecticut, has been appointed pro- 

 fessor of forestry. Otlier appointments include the following : As instructors, 

 M. J. Prucha and G. R. Hill, jr., in plant physiology, Charles Gregory arid C. P. 

 Smith in plant pathology, H. O. Buckman in soil technology, C. E. Ladd in farm 

 management, H. M. Pickrill and T. J. Mclnerney in dairy industry, Clara Brown 

 in home economics, E. M. Tuttle in rural education, and Royal Gilkey in exten- 

 sion teaching; and as assistants, J. T. Francis, Charles Chubb, and L. M. Massey 

 in plant pathology, T. E. Schreiner in ixjultry husbandry, and E. D. Montillon 

 in rural art. 



North Carolina College Station. — Guy W. Wilson has resigned as assistant in 

 plant diseases to take up graduate work at Columbia University. 



Ohio State TJniversity. — ^A course in plant genetics is to be offered for the 

 first time next year. F. R. Marshall has accepted a position as head of the 

 animal husbandry department of the California TJniversity and Station. 



Pennsylvania Institute of Animal Nutrition. — Dirfictor II. P. Armsby has been 

 elected a foreign nienibev of the Royal Academy of Agriculture of Sweden. 



Rhode Island College and Station. — Philip II. "NVessels, who was formerly 

 assistant chemist and who has been a graduate student at the University of 

 Wisconsin, has returned as first assistant chemist to the station. Leroy F. 

 Whipple has resigned as assistant chemist to engage in commercial work. Frank 

 O. Fitts, a 1912 graduate of the Massachusetts College, has been appointed 

 assistant chemist, and George E. Merkle, also a graduate of the Massachusetts 

 College, has been appointed assistant in agronomy and chemistry in the college 

 and station. 



Clemson College and Station. — W. L. Hutchinson, formerly director of the 

 Mississippi Station, has been appointed to the professorship of agronomy. 

 Recent resignations include those of J. M. Napier as assistant professor of 

 agronomy to engage in farming; W. P. Gee as assistant professor of entomology 

 to take up graduate work at the University of California ; C. C. Vincent as asso- 

 ciate professor of horticulture to accept a position with the University of Idaho ; 

 L. A. Niven as assistant in horticulture in the extension division to engage in 

 horticultural journalism ; and Dr. W. F. Burleigh as assistant veterinarian to 

 engage in veterinary practice. 



R. W. Simpson, a life member of the board of trustees and for over twenty 

 years its president, died July 11 at the age of 72 years. As executor of the will 

 of the late Thomas G. Clemson, which provided a considerable bequest for an 

 agricultural and mechanical college in South Carolina, he was prominently 

 identified with the establishment of the present institution. 



"West Virginia University and Station. — O. M. Johnson, of Ohio State Univer- 

 sity, has been appointed associate professor of farm management and in charge 

 of farm management in the station, in cooperation with the Farm Management 

 Investigations of this Department. P. B. Bennetch, of the State School of Agri- 

 culture at Canton, N. Y., has been appointed assistant professor of dairying in 

 the university and dairyman in the station. L. M. Peairs, of the Kansas College 

 and Station, has been appointed associate professor of entomology and ento- 

 mologist, vice F. E. Brooks, resigned. K. H. Knudsen, assistant chemist, has 

 resigned to engage in commercial work in Norway. In the department of horti- 

 culture, A. L. Dacy has been appointed associate professor of horticulture, E. C. 

 Auchter and L. F. Sutton assistants, and A. B. Brooks, a 1912 graduate of the 

 university, instructor in the university and assistant in the station. 



The first state country life conference had a successful session July 15 to 18. 



Office of Experiment Stations. — S. H. McCrory, connected with the field work 

 of the Drainage Investigations of this Office since 1907, has been appointed 

 engineer in charge of drainage work, and has entered upon his duties. J. O. 



