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Cornell University. — Plans are nearing completiou for the forestry building, 

 wLich is expected to be ready for occupancy in the- fall of 1913. A three-story 

 and attic brick structure, 142 by 54 feet, is contemplated. The ground floor 

 will contain laboratories for wood technology and a timber-testing room, and 

 the remaining floors will be devoted to offices, class rooms, laboratories for 

 forest mensuration and utilization, silviculture, and dendrology, a museum, 

 herbarium, drafting rooms, etc. 



The New York State Grange has contributed $600 for 12 scholarships in the 

 college of agriculture, which were recently awarded after a competitive exami- 

 nation held in each county to which members of the grange 17 years of age 

 or over were eligible. 



New York State Station. — Among recent changes are the resignation of Miss 

 Minerva Collins as assistant botanist, and the following appointments: Walter 

 O. Gloyer as associate botanist, Richard F. Keeler, Reginald C. Collison, and 

 W. J. O'Brien as assistant chemists, Bentley B. Fulton as assistant entomolo- 

 gist, James R. Brew as assistant bacteriologist, and Mancel T. Munn as 

 assistant botanist. 



North Carolina College Station. — The extension department operated an agri- 

 cultural train over the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad July 23 to August 8, in 

 which live stock, drainage, and farm implements were the main features. A 

 car of horses, cattle, and hogs, and a car of implements were taken from the 

 college farm, and demonstrations in plowing and the laying of tile were giveu 

 at each of the two stops made daily. The attendance during the trip was 

 more than 10.000. 



Dr. Burton J. Ray, assistant chemist, has accepted the professorship of 

 chemistry in the Porto Rico College, where special attention is to be given to 

 the development of courses in sugar chemistry. 



Ohio State University. — Dr. H. A. Weber, professor of agricultural chemistiy 

 since 1SS4, died June 14, at the age of 67 years. Prof. Weber received his 

 undergraduate education at Ottei'bein University and in Germany, and was 

 given the degree of Ph. D. from Ohio State University in 1879. Among other 

 offices which he held during his long career were those of assistant chemist 

 in the Ohio Geological Survey from 1869 to 1874, pi'ofessor of chemistry in the 

 University of Illinois from 1874 to 1882, chemist to the Illinois state boards of 

 agriculture and health during the same period, and chemist to the State Daii'y 

 and Food Commission of Ohio from 1884 to 1897. He was also a member for 

 Severn 1 years of the committee on food standards of the Association of Official 

 Agricultux'al Chemists. 



Together with the late Director M. A. Scovell, Dr. Weber worked on the 

 production of sugar from sorghum in 1883, and also studied at an early date, 

 among other questions, the needs of soils for fertilizers, light as a factor in 

 sugar production, and the development of root tubercles in water cultures. 

 He was the author of Select Courses in Qualitative Analysis, the first edition 

 of which appeared in 1871, and had also contributed to various chemical publi- 

 cations. 



Pennsylvania College and Station. — W. J. Wright has resigned as instructor 

 in horticulture and horticulturist to accept the direciorship of the New York 

 State School of Agriculture at Alfred. 



South Dakota College and Station. — The appointment is noted of II. E. Erd- 

 manu as assistant in dairying. 



Tennessee University and Station. — According to a recent issue of the South- 

 ern Affriciilturist, the Southern Railway, in conjunction with the Virginia & 

 Southwestern Railway, the Cincinnati, New Orleans & Texas Pacific Railway, 

 and the Mobile & Ohio Railroad, has established three agricultural scholarships 



