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Pennsylvania College and Station. — Aiiionj; tlio roceiit npiiointnieiits are the 

 lV)llo\viiijr : W. A. ("oclu'l. .issocialo nniiinil liusbimdniiui iit the runlue Station, 

 jis professor of animal husbandry; Homer Jackson as instructor in poultry hus- 

 bandry in the college and poultrymau in the station; Warren (i. Ross, professor 

 of agronomy at the College of Hawaii, as assistant in agronomy; and Paul B. 

 Dennetch as assistant in dairy husbandry. 



Porto Rico Station. — T. B. McClelland has breu appointed assistant horti- 

 culturist. 



Rhode Island College and Station. — Phili]) A. Money, of Slocum, has been des- 

 ignated as the representative of the State Board of Agriculture on the board of 

 managers. In the college, C. B. Coleman, assistant in dairy husbandry at the 

 Illinois Station, has been appointed professor of animal husbandry, and G. R. 

 Cobb, a graduate of the Massachusetts College, instructor in horticultui'e. In 

 the station, T. S. Hammett, a graduate of Tufts College, has succeeded Dr. 

 William Qnantz as assistant chemist, and John Daniel, a graduate of the 

 Massachusetts College, has been appointed assistant in agronomy. 



The completion of the new dormitory building has made possible a remodeling 

 of the former dormitory, the first floor being utilized for the department of 

 biology and the college executive offices, and the remainder as a woman's 

 dormitory. 



The station now has under way over 100 cooperative experiments. 



Clemson College. — D. C. IMooring has resigned as assistant professor of horti- 

 culture at the Mississippi College to accept the associate professorship of horti- 

 culture, and has entered upon his duties. I.ee I. Knight has been aiipointed 

 associate professor of botany and forestry. 



Tennessee Station. — Sherman Leavitt, of the Bureau of Chemisti'v of this 

 Department, has been appointed soil chemist. 



Vermont "University and Station. — Dr. L. R. Jones, for twenty years professor 

 of botany in the university and botanist in the station, has resigned to take 

 effect February 1, 1910, to accept the newly established position of plant path- 

 ologist at the Wisconsin University and Station. A. P. Bigelow, assistant in 

 dairying in the station, has resigned to engage in commercial work, and P. A. 

 Benedict, a graduate of the University of Rochester, has been appointed assistant 

 chemist. Stanley Hargreaves has been appointed station gardener, vice H. V. P. 

 DeThestrup, and E. II. Powell, treasurer of the station for seventeen years, has 

 been succeeded by C. P. Smith. 



A summer school, in which among other subjects agriculture and domestic 

 science were taught,. was held for four weeks in July and August. 



Washington Station. — At the annual meeting of the board of regents, the 

 experimental and extension work was reorganized with a view to further differ- 

 entiation. The director of the station was made superintendent of farmers' in- 

 stitutes and extension work, O. M. Olson deputy silperintendent of farmers' in- 

 stitutes, and II. W. Sparks supervisor of demonstration farms. In addition to 

 changes in the staft already noted, W. T. McDonald was promot(>d from assist- 

 ant animal husbandman to animal husbandman, and Dr. H. B. Humphrey from 

 assistant botanist to plant pathologist. E. li. Peterson, a graduate of the Uni- 

 versity of Minnesota, was appointed assistant soil physicist. E. J. Kraus, whose 

 selection as assistant entomologist has been noted, has declined the appointment 

 and accepted a position as assistant horitculturist at the Oregon Station. 



Wisconsin University and Station. — The recently established fellowships in 

 agriculture have been awarded to Alvin C. Oosterhuis in animal husbandry, and 

 Morrfs W. Richards in horticulture, both the recipients being li)()!) graduates of 

 the college of agriculture. The scholarships provided were awarded to Miss 



