NOTES. 



Hawaii Station. — Chester J. Hunii, a recent student at Cornell Universit}^ lias 

 been appointed assistant in horticulture, and took up his work March 1. 



Illinois University and Station. — ^At the third annual convention of the State 

 Florists' Assoclatiun an account of the work in floriculture recently inaugu- 

 rated at the station was presented by Director Davenport, together with a 

 paper on Our Experiment Stations and What We Have Done, by A. C. Beal, 

 assistant in floriculture. 



Indiana Station. — Seed corn and soil improvement special trains have been 

 operated this spring by the station in cooperation with railways of the State. 



Iowa College.— /oftrt Agriculturist states that a plant introduction garden has 

 been established at Ames in cooperation with this Department, and that J. H. 

 Allison, of the University of Missouri, has been appointetl assistant in this and 

 orchard work. 



Louisiana University. — R. S. Cocks, professor of botany and bacteriology, has 

 resigned to accept a new position at Tulane University, and has been succeeded 

 by H. L. Shantz, of the Missouri University and Station. 



Minnesota Univei'sity. — A summer school for teachers, school principals, and 

 superintendents is to he held June 8-27, to meet the demand for agricultural 

 instruction by those who wish to teach the elements of agriculture or to superin- 

 tend the teaching of it in the public schools. 



Nebraska University and Station. — Hon. C. J. Ernst, iiresident of the Board 

 of Regents, has resigned. 



A western branch of the seed-testing laboratory of this Department has been 

 established at the station, to facilitate quicker returns. 



South Dakota Station. — Clifford Willis, first assistant in soil physics in the 

 Illinois Station, has been appointed chief of the department of agronomy in the 

 place of E. C. Chilcott, who came to this Department several years ago. A new 

 substation ha:> been established in the northern part of the State. 



Virginia College and Station. — The legislature has passed an act establishing 

 a State Geological Survey, and locating the work at the University of Virginia. 

 The act transfers to the university work originally organized in 1004 and suc- 

 cessfully carried on for several years at the Virginia Polytechnic Institute. A 

 commission consisting of the governor, the presidents of the University of Vir- 

 ginia and the Virginia Polytechnic Institute, and two appointees of the governor 

 is to have charge of the work. As authorized, the powers of this commission 

 include an examination of the geological formations i>f the State, road-building 

 materials, streams, water powers, water supplies, and other physical features 

 with special reference to their utilization, an examination and classification of 

 soils, and a study of their adaptability to particular crops, the preparation of 

 maps and special reports bearing upon the geology and natural resources of the 

 State, and the consideration of such other scientific and economic questions as in 

 the judgment of the commission are deemed of Aalue to the people of the State. 



Wisconsin University. — New four-year courses leading to the degree of Bache- 

 lor of Science are being offered for the training of analytical, industrial, agricul- 

 tural and soil, sanitary and food, and physiological chemists. The course for 

 the sanitary and food chemist will include work in the bacteriology and biology 



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