NOTES. 



Arkansas University and Station. — (4. A. Cole, itrofessor of agriculture and 

 agriculturist, Lius resigned and lias been succeeded by It. J. Nelson, formerly 

 field agent in charge of branch stations. 



California Station. — A special farmers" institute was held March 17-20, at 

 Whittier. to celelirate the opening of the .Southern California Pathological 

 Laboratory. 



Connecticut College. — C. I>. Beach, of the University of Vermont, has been 

 elected president. \ i<e II. W. Stimson, whose resignation has been previously 

 noted. 



Connecticut State Station. — K. G. MacKenzie has resigned as chemist. 



Delaware College and Station. — Firman Thompson has been elected i)rofessor 

 of agricultural chemistry in the college and chemist in the station, and is ex- 

 pected to begin his work July 1. A two-weeks' winter course in agriculture had 

 an enrollment of 4(» students, which was four times that of any previous year. 



Illinois TIniversity and Station. — Through a State appropriation of $50,000 

 annually for the current bieniiiuni, the graduate school which has been main- 

 tained for some years has been jiut on a definite footing. According to a note in 

 i^cicncc this is " the first time in the history of American education that the 

 peoi)]e in their corporate capacity have put themselves on i-ecord as definitely 

 in favor of I graduate work]." The formal opening of the school took place 

 February 4 and .">. Tl)e oi>ening address was by President (i. Stanley Hall, of 

 Clark University, who called attention to the immense sums that the National 

 tJovernment has si»ent for investigation, and to the results of the greatest 

 practical importance tliat have followed. In his opinion original research 

 was a profitable investment. The assertion that the State universities should 

 not and could not undertake graduate work he considered untenable. 



Herman Dorner, assistant professor of botany in Wabash College, has been 

 appointed instructor in floriculture in the college of agriculture. 



Kansas College and Station. — The resignations of President E. R. Nichols and 

 Director C. \V. P.urkett h.ive been accepted, to take effect, respectively, July 1, 

 ltK)9, and September 1, lfX)8. Professor Burkett has, according to press reports, 

 accepted an editorial i)osition on the American Agriculturist. J. U. Pelham, 

 assistant in horticulture at the Fort Hays Substation, resigned March 1 to 

 become instructor in agriculture at the AVestern Kansas Normal School, and 

 his duties have been assumed by L. E. Hazen in addition to his previous work 

 as special agent in charge of cooperati\e experiments. Recent appointments 

 include Earl Brintnall as assistant in dairying, and E. L. Sieber as assistant 

 in chemistry. H. F. Roberts is to sail for Europe in May for a sununer's in- 

 spection of the wheat regions of central and southern Europe. It is hoped to 

 secure superior strains of hard wheats for introduction. 



Kentucky University. — Thi'ough an act of the State legislature, the name of 

 the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Kentucky has been changed to Ken- 

 tucky State T'niversity, and the institution has been definitely correlated with 

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