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Iowa College. — Recent promotions include J. A. McLean and Wayne Dinsmore 

 to associate pi-ofessorsliips of animal husl)andry. J. B. Davidson to a professor- 

 ship of aKi'icultural engineering, E. B. Watson to an assistant professorship of 

 soils, and John Bower to an assistant professorship of dairying. 



Kansas College and Station. — Osar Erf, professor of dairying, who has re- 

 signed ior accept a similar position at Ohio State University. Other recent ap- 

 pointments include C. G. Elling, of the Cuban Experiment Station, as assistant 

 in animal husbandry, E. G. Shafer in agronomy, and O. A. Stevens in botany. 

 G. F. Freeman and G. C. Wheeler have been promoted, respectively, to assistant 

 professorships of botany and animal husbandr.v. W. E. Mathewson, assistant 

 chemist, has resigned to accept a position in the Bureau of Chemistry of this 

 Department. 



A six weeks" summer school in agriculture has been established, chiefly for 

 teachers and similar in scope to that now given in domestic science. The 

 veterinary science building provided for by the last legislature is in process of 

 construction. A two-story stone structure, about 7.") by 1."m feet, with an 

 auditorium amiex 60 by 38 feet, is planned, to be completed by September, 1908, ■ 

 at a cost of about $70,000. 



Kentucky Station. — E. C. Vaughn has been appointed assistant entomologist 

 and l)otanist. A greenhouse to cost .$10,000 is under constructio'i. 



Michigan Station. — Dr. Otto Rahu, of Halle, Germany, the author of several 

 monographs on bacteriological subjects, has been added to the bacteriological 

 division f(n' work in dairy bacteriology, especially the relation of bacterial flora 

 to the keeping qualities of milk and butter. Dr. G. A. Waterman has been suc- 

 ceeded as consulting veterinarian by Dr. L. M. Hurt, of the Iowa College. 

 Dorothea Moxness, assistant chemist, has resigned to engage in commercial 

 work. 



Minnesota University. — Dr. Harold L. Lyon has resigned as assistant pro- 

 fessor of l)otany to accept the assistant directorship of the pathological labora- 

 tory of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Station. Edward C. .Johnson, assistant 

 in botany, has been appointed assistant pathologist in this Department. 



New Mexico College and Station. — Vincent B. May, of Las Cruces. has been 

 appointed regent, vice Jose Lucero. Laurenz R. Greene, assistant in horticul- 

 ture, has resigned to accept an assistantship at the Iowa College and is suc- 

 ceeded by A. D. Holloway, a graduate of the Kansas College. P. D. Southworth. 

 assistant in animal husbandry, has resigned to enter commercial work, and S. B. 

 Durham, a gi-aduate of the Oklahoma College, has been appointed assistant in 

 dairying. The live stock herd for instruction work has been materially 

 increased. A course in farm machinery has been added, for which considerable 

 equipment has been provided. 



North Carolina College and Station. — A division of entomology has been 

 established in charge of K. I. Smith, formerly State entomologist of Georgia. 



Pennsylvania College and Station. — Hugh P. Baker, of the Iowa College and 

 Station, has been elected professor of forestry. J. W. Clark instructor in poultry 

 husbandry. W. H. Tomhave assistant in animal husbandry. W. R. White 

 assistant in correspondence courses, and H. P. Fishburn assistant chemist. 

 T. I. Mairs has been given chai-ge of the correspondence courses. Since the 

 beginning of the year five heads of departments and ten assistants have been 

 added to the staff. 



Rhode Island College and Station. — J. W. Bolte, assistant professor of animal 

 hiisbandry and in charge of poultry feeding, has resigned to engage in commer- 

 cial work. Science notes the appointment of Dr. L. J. Cole, chief of the in- 

 vestigations in animal breeding and pathology, as instructor in zoology in Yale 

 University. 



