796 EXPERIMENT STATION KEGOED. 



devote himself to research. Dr. .James Law. director of the New York Vet- 

 erinary College, will retire under the provisions of the Carnegie Foundation for 

 the Advancement of Teaching, and will be succeeded by Dr. V. A. Moore, pro-" 

 fessor of comparative pathology. A. R. Mann has been appointed an assistant 

 in the dairy department, and will give special attention to certain phases of ex- 

 tension work in dairy industry. 



The State Agricultural E^xperimenters' League has arranged for cooperative 

 and demonstration work during the current season by members of the univer- 

 sity and station staff in agronomy, plant selection and breeding, horticulture, 

 entomology, animal husbandry, poultry husbandry, dairy industry, plant dis- 

 eases, soils, and exiierimental agronomy. 



New York State Station. — Willis G. Johnson, recently appointed to the board 

 of control, died March 11, at the age of 41 years. Professor Johnson was 

 graduated from Cornell T^niversity in 1892, receiving the A. M. degree in 1894 

 from Leland Stanford University, where he was for two years instructor in 

 entomology and embryology. Fi'om 1894 to 1896 he was assistant to the State 

 entomologist of Illinois, and in the latter year became the head of the depart- 

 ment of entomology in the Maryland college and station and State entomolo- 

 gist, resigning in 1900 to accept the associate editorship of American Agricul- 

 turist, which position he occupied at the time of his death. 



H. E. Hodgkiss has reentered the station service as assistant entomologist. 



North Carolina College and Station. — C. L. Newman, of the South Carolina 

 college and station, has been elected professor of agriculture. The station has 

 operated a corn special train over the lines of the Norfolk & Southern Railway, 

 in the eastern part of the State, the trip extending from March 22 to April 1. 

 Stops of two hours or more were made at 20 villages and towns, liesides several 

 evening talks on general agricultural and educational topics. The smallest at- 

 tendance at any stop was 40. and the average about 150. Attached to the train 

 was an exhibition car which carried sample ears of about 50 varieties of corn 

 which the station has been testing cooperatively for several years, besides 

 samples of varieties of oats, wheat, and cowpeas, typical soils of the State, the 

 chief insects and plant diseases, and spraying mixtures and apparatus. The 

 speakers included Director Williams, the entomologist and the biologist of the 

 station and the veterinarian and animal husbandman of the State department 

 of agriculture. 



Ohio University and Station. — Dr. W. A. Kellerman, professor of botany in the 

 university since 1891, died March 8 at Zacapa, Guatemala, after a brief attack 

 of malarial fever. At the time of his death he was in charge of a party engaged 

 in the study of Guatemalan flora, in which he was a recognized authority. 

 Doctor Kellerman was born May 1, 1850, graduated from Cornell University in 

 1874, and received the Ph. D. degree from the University of Zurich in 1881. His 

 service as a teacher included, in addition to his work in Ohio, five years at the 

 Wisconsin State Normal School and eight years at the Kansas college, four 

 years of which he was also State botanist and botanist of the Kansas Station. 

 Doctor Kellerman was founder and editor of the Journal of Mycolof/ij, and the 

 author of Flora of Kansas. Elementary Botany, Phyto-Theca, Spring P^lora of 

 Ohio, and a large number of shorter articles. 



The new buildings for the colllege of agriculture were dedicated in Februai'y, 

 the State Live Stock Association participating in the exercises. The speakers 

 included President W. O. Thompson, Governor A. L. Harris, and O. E. Bradfute 

 of the board of trustees. The dedicatory address was by Director T. F. Hunt 

 of the Pennsylvania Station, who took for his subject The Relation of Domestic 

 Animals to Human Progress. The buildings consist of a judging pavilion cost- 



