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Kentucky Station. — T. R. Bryant has been appointed assistant in animal hus- 

 bandry and E. J. Kinney assistant in entoniolojiy and botany. 



Louisiana University and Stations. — H. L. Shantz has resigned as professor of 

 botany to accept a position with the Bureau of Plant Industry of this Depart- 

 ment. AV. P. Naquin, assistant sugar chemist, has resigned to engage in com- 

 menial work, and has been succeeded by Benjamin F. Hochenedel. Other 

 appointments include, at Baton Kouge, K. G. Fuller, formerly assistant in chem- 

 istry at (he university, as assistant chemist, and at Calhoun, Bruce Anderson as 

 dairyman and the reappointment, after a year's absence in commercial work, of 

 E. J. Watson as horticulturist. 



Maine University and Station. — At the recent commencement the degree of 

 D. Sc. was conferred on L. H. Merrill, who retired from station work July 1 to 

 become professor of biological and agricultural chemistry in the university. 

 Dr. Charles E. Lewis, instructor in botany in the University of Wisconsin, has 

 been appointed associate vegetable pathologist, and Miss Maynie R. Curtis, a 

 postgraduate student at the University of Michigan, has been appointed as- 

 sistant biologist. 



The cornerstone of the new agricultural building was laid June 10 in con- 

 nection with the commencement exercises. The programme included brief ad- 

 dresses by President Fellows, Dean Hurd, Director Jordan of the New York 

 State Station, State Superintendent of Public Schools Payson Smith, and State 

 Commissioner of Agriculture A. W. Oilman. A substantial red brick structure 

 of three stories and high basement is planned, to cost about $50,000. It is 

 hojjed the building will be ready for occupancy during the next college year. 



Maryland College. — The college has purchased a railway car for traveling 

 school work and fitted it up into living quarters for the instruction staff, and a 

 lecture room equipped with a blackboard, stereopticon, and other appai-atus. A 

 month's trip made during May, with stops of about three days in a place, and 

 forenoon and evening sessions of two hours' each, brought out a good attend- 

 ance in most localities. 



Massachusetts College and Station. — A reorganization of the instruction in 

 agriculture has been effected by the establishment of a division of agriculture 

 to include for the present departments of animal husbandry, agronomy, dairy- 

 ing, and farm administi'ation. J. A. Foord, associate professor of agronomy, has 

 been made acting head of the division of agriculture and professor of farm ad- 

 ministration, the duties of the latter position including the management of the 

 college farm. A department of hygiene and physical culture has been estab- 

 lished in charge of Percy L. Reynolds, M. D. R. D. MacLaurin, of the station, 

 will also act as lecturer in organic chemistry in the college. B. F. Jenks has 

 been appointed instructor in agricultural education, a part of his duties to con- 

 sist of instruction in agriculture in the North Adams State Normal School. The 

 formal organization of a graduate school is announced, with Prof. C. H. Fernald 

 as dean. 



A high-school day was held ]May 15, at which the senior classes of near-by 

 high schools were invited to visit the college and look into its work. About 140 

 jjupils, representing 8 high schools, were in attendance, accompanied bj^ teachers 

 and in some cases by school officials. It is planned to make this an annual 

 occasion. The initial I'egistration in the summer school of agriculture was 153, 

 mainly teachers, but including many desiring general information on agriculture 

 and nature-study topics. 



Minnesota University and Station. — James T. Wyman, Daniel R. Noyes, and 

 S. (i. Comstock, of the board of regents, have been succeeded by John liind and 

 C. A. Smith, of Minneapolis, and Henry B. Hovland, of Duluth. E. M. Freeman, 



