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Alabama College and Station. — Ward Giltner, instrnctor in veterinary science 

 in the college and assistant in veterinary science in the station, lias resigned to 

 accept a position as research assistant in the department of bacteriology in the 

 Michigan College and Station. 



Tuskegee Institute and Station.— C. S. Woodard, a recent graduate of the 

 college of agriculture of Ohio University, has been given charge of the beef herd 

 of 150 cattle. G. W. Owens has resigned as dairyman and animal husbandman 

 to assume charge of the agricultural department of the Virginia State Normal 

 and Industrial School at Petersburg. 



California University. — President Benjamin Ide Wheeler has been nominated 

 by the trustees of Columbia University and appointed by the Prussian ministry 

 of education as Theodore Roosevelt professor in Berlin for 1909 and 1910. 



Colorado Station. — W. G. Sackett, assistant bacteriologist in the Michigan Col- 

 lege and Station, has been appointed bacteriologist in the Colorado Station, and 

 entered on his duties in May. 



Connecticut College and Station. — C. K. Graham has resigned as poultryman 

 to accept the directorship of the agricultural department of the Hampton Nor- 

 mal and Agricultural Institute. 



Florida Station. — R. D. Algee, secretary, and William Hess, gardener, have 

 resigned. R. N. Wilson has been appointed temporary assistant in chemistry, 

 beginning work .June 10. 



Georgia Station. — W. L. Owen has resigned as bacteriologist to accept a cor- 

 responding position with the Louisiana Sugar Station at Audubon Park. 



Hawaii Station. — J.G.Smith has resigned as special agent in charge, to engage 

 in commercial work. He has been succeeded by Dr. E. V. Wilcox of this Office, 

 who has been in charge of the departments of economic zoology, entomology, 

 and veterinary science of Experiment Station Record for about ten years. 



Illinois University and Station. — At the request of the high school conference, 

 through its committee on household arts in the high schools. Miss Helena M. 

 Pincomb has been appointed to take charge of and develop household science 

 work in the high schools of the State. She will visit the schools that are inter- 

 ested in this subject, will speak at teachers' institutes, and conduct the summer 

 school work at the household science department of the university, in which 

 special attention will be given to the needs of teachers of household arts in the 

 secondary schools. 



H, W. Mumford, head of the department of animal husbandry, is making a 

 somewhat extended trip for the purpose of studying the subject of beef produc- 

 tion in South America, especially in Argentina. He sailed in February and 

 will return by the west coast, reaching the university not far from the middle 

 of June. 



Maine University and Station. — The death is noted of Gilbert M. Gowell, who 

 died by his own hand on May 6 while suffering from melancholia. Professor 

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