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the boys' dormitory into laboratories and class and lecture rooms, which will largely 

 increase the college facilities of every department, particularly those of agriculture, 

 horticulture, and veterinary science. 



Ohio Station. — The General Assembly has appropriated the following funds for 

 the support of the station for the two years 1898 and 1899: Expenses of board of 

 control, $800; general repairs, labor, and supplies, $6,000; bulletin illustration, 

 $900; substations for field experiments, $5,600; special work in entomology, botany, 

 horticulture, and chemistry, $7,000; furniture and fixtures, $1,200; and investiga- 

 tion of tuberculosis, $1,000; making a total of $22,500. 



Oklahoma Station*. — Oscar M. Morris, B. S., a graduate of the college in 1896, 

 has been appointed assistant horticulturist, and A. G. Ford, B. S., a graduate of the 

 college in 1898, has been appointed assistant in chemistry. 



Texas College. — L. L. Foster, of Velasco, has been elected president of the col- 

 lege. R. H. Whitlock, who has been acting president, will retire to the duties of 

 professor of mechanical engineering. 



Utah College and Station. — The following changes have been made in the gov- 

 erning board of the station : Allan M. Fleming, of Logan, has been elected treas- 

 urer, vice Ripley S. Lyon, resigned, and Mrs. R. N. Bagley, of Ogden, and Joseph 

 Morrill, of Logan, have been appointed in place of John C. Graham and Clarissa S. 

 McAlister. The other members of the board have been reappointed. Samuel For- 

 tier, hydraulic engineer, has severed his connection with the station to accept the 

 position of Superintendent of the Bear River Canal and Ogden Waterworks Com- 

 pany. George L. S wendsen, of the Brigham Young Academy, Logan, has been elected 

 to succeed Professor Fortier. F. YV. Brewer, biologist, has resigned his position in 

 the college and station. The biological work of the station will be discontinued. 

 W. S. Langton will next year assume charge of that department in the college. 



Wtoming Station. — During the year there have been constructed an addition to 

 the greenhouse, 12 by 50 ft. : a small dwelling house upon the station farm, situated 

 three miles from the university, and a small stable. The station is planning more 

 extensive irrigation investigations than heretofore, and the results of a new alkali 

 experiment are now ready for publication. 



NECROLOGY. — Lyon Playfair died at London May 29, 1898, at the age of 79 years. 

 He was one of the most prominent English scientists interested in agriculture, a 

 pupil of Graham and later of Liebig. At one time he gave much attention to the 

 problems of food and nutrition, his investigations in this line being of considerable 

 importance. He was appointed professor of chemistry in the Royal Institution at 

 Manchester in 1843. In 1814 Sir Robert Peel appointed Playfair on a commission to 

 inquire into the sanitary condition of large towns. In 1856 he was appointed profes- 

 sor of chemistry at the University of Edinburgh and remained in this position for 

 thirteen years. To him more than to any other is due the advance of technical 

 education in England. He was actively engaged in the first and second great exhibi- 

 tions in 1851 and 1862. He presided over many royal commissions and his great 

 ability was generally recognized. He held many political positions, served in Par- 

 liament for a long period of years, and received the honor of a peerage. He was the 

 last remaining original member of the London Chemical Society. 



Osburt Salvia died at Hawksfold, near Haslemer, England, June 1, 1898, at the age 

 of 63 years. He was a prominent ornithologist and entomologist and made many 

 expeditions for collecting specimens, notably to Central America. In 1874 he ac- 

 cepted the office of the Strickland curatorship in the University of Cambridge, 

 holding the position until 1**3, when he resigned and, associated with Mr. Godwin, 

 devoted himself to bringing out the "Biologia Centrah Americana." Alone or asso- 

 ciated with others he was the author of some 124 scientific papers, among other work 

 contributing Trochilidie and Procellariida- to the British Museum Catalogue of Birds. 



