498 EXPERIMENT STATION RECOED. 



voterinariiui. resigiu'd July 15, to take charge of the dairy lierd at one of the 

 hospitals of the Isthmian Canal Connnission. 



Michigan Station.— Charles S. Robinson, a graduate of the University of 

 Michigan, has been appointed research chemist, vice Dr. S. L. Jodidi, who has 

 accepted a similar position in the department of soils at the Iowa Station. 

 Charles B. Collingwood, assistant chemist, has resigned to accept an appointment 

 as circuit .judge of Ingham County, Michigan. 



Minnesota University and Station.— W. M. Liggett, who retired as dean and 

 director in 1907 on account of failing health, died August 29, at his home in St. 

 Anthony Park. Colonel Liggett was born in 1S46 in Union County, Ohio, but 

 removed in 1884 to Minnesota, where his activity in promoting the introduction 

 of better farming methods led to his appointment in 18SS to the chairmanship 

 of the agricultural committee of the university board of regents. Continuing in 

 this capacity for more than seventeen years, he took a prominent part in the 

 organization and development of the college and school of agriculture and of the 

 station. From 1893 to 1896, when the station was without a director, he served 

 as chairman of the station corps. In the latter year he was formally appointed 

 dean and director, and occupied this position until his retirement. He was also 

 secretary of the State Agricultural Society for a time, was a veteran of the civil 

 war, and had held numerous state and county offices. 



A two-year course has been organized for men who expect to teach or to super- 

 vise work in industrial subjects. The course is open to college or normal school 

 graduates, or to those whose experience in teaching or in supervision has given 

 an equivalent training. The tirst year will be taken in the school of agriculture 

 and the second in the college of agriculture. With the technical work in both 

 years will be given pedagogic studies in the management of industrial schools 

 and courses, and some practice teaching. 



The uniA'ersity and station recently cooperated with this Department in ex- 

 hibits and demonstrations at the state fair. A special feature were the lectures, 

 these being illustrated by moving pictures. 



Minnesota Farm Rcvieio notes the ai)pointuient of Dillon P. Tierney as in- 

 structor in forestry, beginning January 1, 1910, and of Rodney M. West as in- 

 stxnictor in chemistry in the school of agriculture and assistant in agricultural 

 chemistry in the station. L. P.. Bassett has resigned as assistant agriculturist 

 and farm superintendent to engage in commercial work. 



New Hampshire College and Station. — .J. F. Eastman has resigned as assistant 

 in agronomy and assistant agriculturist to accept a fellowship in agi'onomy at 

 the University of Illinois. 



North Carolina College and Station. — Recent appointments include the follow- 

 ing: B. J. Ray, Ph. D., as assistant professor of chemistry and assistant chemist, 

 vice W. A. Syme, resigned to become oil chemist for the North Carolina State 

 Department of Agriculture; F. W. Sherwood as assistant chemist, vice J. K. 

 Plummer, resigned to take up graduate work at Cornell University; and Louis 

 R. Detjen, a 1909 graduate of the University of Wisconsin, as assistant horti- 

 culturist. 



North Carolina State Station. — E. L. Worthen, of the Bureau of Soils of this 

 Department, has been added to the staff for work in soil investigation. 



Ohio University and Station. — H. L. Goll, of Stryker^ has been appointed to 

 the board of control to succeed Cary W. Montgomery. W. jNI. Cook and W. Jj. 

 Elser have been appointed assistants in the department of cooperative experi- 

 ments. R. C. Collison has been appointed assistant in nutrition, vice Dr. Adolpli 

 Lehmann, resigned. L. L. La Shell, assistant chemist, has resigned to accept a 

 commercial position. 



