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Iowa Station. — C. F. Cnrtiss, director of the station, has heeu granted leave of 

 absence for 3 months, beginning April 1, for a trip abroad to study the agricultural 

 conditions of Great Britain and Western Europe. 



Kansas College and Station. — E. E. Faville, horticulturist and entomologist in 

 the college and station, has resigned to accept the presidency of the National Farm 

 School at Doylestown, Pennsylvania, a new industrial institution under the auspices 

 of a Jewish association. W. L. Hall, assistant horticulturist, and Percival J. Parrott, 

 assistant entomologist, are temporarily in charge of the work in their respective 

 departments. Mr. Parrott is studying scale insects in New Mexico. F. C. Burtis, 

 assistant in feeds and feeding, has been granted leave of absence for a year to study 

 in other agricultural colleges. His place will be taken temporarily by J. G. Haney. 

 Geo. L. Clothier, assistant botanist, has been granted leave of absence until the first 

 of June to study plant breeding at Cornell University. His place will be supplied 

 by J. M. Westgate. 



South Carolina College and Station. — J. W. Hart, instructor in dairying, has 

 resigned to accept a position in the Dairy School at Kingston, Ontario, and C. M. 

 Conner has been assigned the duties of the dairy department in the college and 

 station. J. V. Lewis, geologist, has resigned his connection with the station staff, 

 in order to devote his entire time to the college. 



Tennessee University and Station. — Charles F. Vauderford, professor of agri- 

 culture in the university and secretary and agriculturist in the station, died January 

 3, 1899. Professor Vanderford had from long study become thoroughly familiar 

 with the agriculture of his State, and for many years had been closely identified 

 with all its agricultural interests. He was an enthusiastic student of those branches 

 of natural science upon which agriculture is based, and during the last 30 years of 

 his life gave his best efforts to the advancement of the farmer. He rendered valuable 

 service in revising, correcting, and condensing a report upon tobacco, published in 

 the Tenth Census of the United States. He was for many years president of the 

 Tennessee Stock Breeders' Association, and from 1889 to 1891 was assistant commis- 

 sioner of agriculture of the State. He had been connected with the university and 

 station since 1891. John R. Fain has been appointed to succeed John L. Spinks as 

 farm manager. At the last meeting of the board of trustees of the university an 

 order was made for the establishment of a system of farmers' institutes. The 

 experiment station staff are at work perfecting plans, and the first institutes will 

 be held during the winter and spring. 



Necrology. — Dr. Carl Brunnemaun. director of the agricultural institute at Itabira- 

 de-Mata-Dentro, Brazil, died October 27, 1898. Dr. Brunnemann was formerly director 

 of the agricultural experiment station at Posen, Germany. In 1891 he was engaged 

 by the Brazilian Government to organize an agricultural experiment station at Bar- 

 bacena, in the Province of Minas-Geraes. He was quite widely known through his 

 investigations in Minas-Geraes, and his travels. In 1894 he established the agricul- 

 tural institute at Itabira. 



Dr. C. G. Gibelli, professor of botany and director of the Botanic Institute of the 

 University of Turin, died September 16, 1898. 



Gilbert H. Hicks, assistant botanist of this Department, in charge of seed investi- 

 gations, died December 5, 1898. 

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