NOTES 



California Station. — Work has been begun on a laboratory building at the 

 Citrus substation at Riverside, for which a state appropriation is available. 

 Dr. J. E. Coit has been appointed director of the laboratory. 



Connecticut College. — Dr. A. F. Ilialceslee has been granted a year's leave of 

 absence for research vfork on the lower fungi at the Carnegie Station for Ex- 

 perimental Evolution. 



Hawaii College. — During the winter and spring months the college conducted 

 a short course for teachers, including 15 special lectures on Monday afternoons. 

 The maximum attendance was 50, the average 25 



Illinois "University and Station. — New professorships have been authorized 

 in landscape art, animal pathology, and dairy husbandry, also an associate and 

 an instructor in lantlscape art. B. S. Pickett, of the New Hampshire College 

 and Station, has been appointed assistant professor of pomology, and J. J. 

 Gardner, also of the New Hampshire College and Station, as instructor in 

 I)omology. Dr. John Detlefson, of the Bussey Institution, has been appointed 

 assistant professor of a new division of genetics in the animal husbandry de- 

 partment, Dr. Walter E. Joseph instructor in animal husbandry, and V. A. 

 riace assistant in animal husbandry. Di-. Otto Itahn. of the Michigan College 

 and Station, has been appointed assistant professor of bacteriology. 



Kansas Station. — According to a note in Kansas Farmer, A. M. Ten Eyck has 

 resigned as superintendent of the Fort Hays substation. 



Kentucky University and Station. — Dr. M. A. Scovell, director of the college 

 of agriculture and director of the station since its establishment, died August 

 15 after an illness of two weeks. An account of his career will appear in a 

 later issue. 



Massachusetts Station. — P.. G. Southwick. a 1912 graduate of the college, has 

 been appointed secretary to the director, vice H. J. Baker, whose resignation 

 has been previously noted. 



Minnesota TJniversity. — Returns from a blank form sent to each alumnus of 

 the school of agriculture who graduated previous to 1909 show that of the 385 

 men responding, 225 are farming at the present time and the remainder en- 

 gaged in 34 occupations. Of the 119 women heard from, 60 are housekeepers, 

 34 teachers, and the balance engaged in 8 other occupations. 



Nebraska Station. — .Tohn A. Ratcliff has been appointed assistant in experi- 

 mental agronomy, and has entered upon his duties. 



Nevada University and Station. — President J. E. Stubbs has been granted a 

 year's leave of absence, during which time he will make a trip around the 

 world. Dean Lewers will be acting president in his absence. 



E. A. Howes, formerly with the seed branch of the Canadian Department of 

 Agriculture, has been appointed professor of agronomy and agronomist. Dairy 

 instruction is to be begun in the university, and V. E. Scott, formerly with the 

 Dunn County Agricultural School of Menomonie, Wis., has been appointed 

 instructor in dairying. 



New Hampshire College. — President W. D, Gibbs has resigned to engage in 

 business, retiring September 1. 



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