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Alabama College. — Charles S. Eldgway, of the Johns Hopkins Univei-sity, has 

 been niipolnted instructor in botany. 



Alaska Stations. — At Kodiali Island, Laurence Kelly has been appointed as- 

 sistant dairyman and J. W. McCausIand general assistant. Herman G. Zoellner 

 has been appointed gardener at Sitka. 



Arkansas University and Station. — The agricultural work of the university 

 and station has been reorganized into ten departments as follows : Entomology, 

 horticulture, dairy husbandry, veterinary science, agricultural education, agri- 

 cultural chemistry, agronomy, plant pathology, animal husbandry and farmers' 

 institutes. Dr. C. F. Adams, acting dean of the college of agriculture and 

 director of the station, has been appointed dean and director. J. L. Hewitt has 

 been promoted to the chair of plant pathology, and A. K. Short to that of ani- 

 mal husbandry and animal husljandman in the station. Additional assistants 

 have been appointed including Paul Hayhurst, entomology ; R. A. Gow, veter- 

 inary science; J. R. Tucker, agricultural chemistry; J. M. "Wilson, agricultural 

 education ; M. B. Gates, animal husbandry ; and Ashley P. Boles, plant pathology. 

 j California "University. — The Superior Court at Fresno has granted the petition 

 of the university for a partial distribution of the estate of the late M. Theodore 

 Kearney. It is expected that this will terminate the protracted litigation, and 

 that the institution will thereby come into possession of pi-operty valued at over 

 one million dollars, the income of which is to be api)lied to agricultural instruc- 

 tion and research in the San Joaquin Valley. 



A short course in horticulture was held at Davis, April 26 to May 20, at which 

 a special feature was a preparatory course for prospective horticultural commis- 

 sioners and inspectors under the new State law. The course was preceded by a 

 three-day conference at Berkeley of Pacific Slope entomologists, for the consid- 

 eration of the special insect problems of the x-egion. At this conference a per- 

 manent organization was effected under the name of Pacific Slope Association 

 of Economic Entomologists, with C. W. Woodworth as president and W. B. 

 Herms as secretary-treasurer. xU'tive membership is to be restricted to oCQcial 

 and professional entomologists of the Pacific Slope, while associate membership 

 is to be open to farmers and others interested in the objects of the association. 

 The next meeting is to be held during the summer at Portland. Greg. 



Recent appointments include W. T. Home of the Cuban Station, as assistant 

 professor of plant pathology. Dr. J. E. Coit of the Arizona Station, assistant 

 ])rofessor of pomology, Charles B. Lipman instructor in soil bacteriology, R. M. 

 Roberts instructor in farm practice, John D. Rose assistant in the cereal labora- 

 tory, L. Bonnet assistant in viticulture, and E. Chagnon viticultural chemist. 

 Robert H, Loughridge has been made professor of .agricultural .chemistry 

 emeritus, F. T. Bioletti associate professor of viticulture, E. B. Babcock assistant 

 professor of agricultural education, H. J. Ramsey assistant professor of plant 

 pathology, Roscoe Farrar instructor in soils and farm crops, and N. D. Ingham 

 assistant in silviculture. Leroy Anderson, who has been in charge of the second- 

 ary school at Davis, is to direct its work from Berkeley, while E. W. Major and 

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