NO^ES. 695 



New York State Station. — W. J. Younj;, student assistant in horticulture, has 

 refunied to the Hureau of Chemistry, of this Department. 



Ohio State University. — W. C. I.asseter, a 1!)09 graduate of the T'niversity of 

 Wisconsin, has l)een aitpoinli'd assistant in soil i)hysics. 



Oklahoma College and Station. — Albert Stoeker, a 1909 graduate of the Univer- 

 sity of Wisconsin, has been appointed assistant professor of dairy husbandry. 

 It is announced that the previous note regarding O. M. Morris and G. M. Mac- 

 Nider (E. S. R., 21, p. 195) was incorrect, the former retaining the position of 

 horticulturist and botanist and no appointment having been made to the position 

 of assistant chemist. 



Oregon College and Station. — The main section of the new agricultural hall is 

 in process of construction. This portion will be 150 by 175 ft., with four stories 

 and basement. The basement is to be of concrete, and the superstructure of 

 brick with stone trimmings. 



Mrs. Laui-a Hill Griffin has resigned as assistant entomologist, and has been 

 succeeded by Miss Alice L. Edwards, a 1906 graduate of the college. W. L. 

 Powers, who recently received the M. S. degree at the New Mexico College, has 

 been appointed assistant agronomist, and will give special attention to irrigation 

 problems. James Koeber, a 1909 graduate of the college, has been appointed 

 assistant in agronomy. 



Pennsylvania College. — A department of agricultural education has been 

 established to assist in the work of introducing agriculture into the public 

 schools and to take charge of the correspondence courses in the college. In this 

 connection it is proposed to outline reading courses and probably to establish 

 correspondence courses for teachers. T. I. Mairs, who has had charge of the 

 correspondence courses for several years, is at the head of the new department. 



Porto Rico College and Station. — The establishment of an agricultural college 

 bas been authorized by the territorial legislature, and J. W. Hart, of the Louis 

 Queiros School of Agriculture, at Piracicaba, Stio Paulo, Brazil, has been elected 

 president. The college is to be located at Mayaguez, where land has been 

 acquired, some of which adjoins the station. It is hoped to begin the erection 

 of buildings on this tract in the near future. The board of trustees includes 

 D. W. May, special agent in charge of the station. 



South Dakota Station.— H. B. Potter, W. D. Griggs, S. Garver, and P. H. Moore 

 have been appointed assistants in agronomy, B. L. Thompson, assistant in 

 animal husbandry, and Orland White, assistant in botany. 



Texas College and Station. — According to press reports, 50 moi*e tents have been 

 purchased to add to the 85 already in nse on the campus for the accommoda- 

 tion of students. It appears that there are more than 200 students who can 

 not be accommodated in the dormitories. 



Don T. Griswold has been appointed instructor in animal husbandry in the 

 college and assistant animal husbandman in the station. J. B. Rather has 

 been transferred from the feed control work to the investigations under the 

 Adams Act. 



Washington College. — F. B. Hadley, assistant professor of anatomy and sur- 

 gery, has accepted a similar position at the Ohio State University. K. A. Kirk- 

 patrick has been appointed instructor in horticulture. 



Wisconsin University and Station. — A department of home economics has been 

 established in the college of agriculture in charge of Miss Abby L. Marlatt, 

 with Misses Alice Uoomis and Leona Hope as assistants. The initial registra- 

 tion in the courses offered is over 100, of whom 54 are in the four-year course 

 and several are graduate students. 



Other appointments include E. E. Eldridge, a 1909 graduate of the college of 

 agriculture, as assistant in bacteriology, and Llewellyn R. Davies as assist- 



