EXPERIMENT STATION NOTES. 



Colorado College. — A. Ellis, Ph. D., LL.D., has accepted the presidency of the 

 college for a term of 5 years. Dr. Ellis was born on a farm in Kenton County, Ken- 

 tucky, in 1847 ; graduated at Miami University, Oxford, Ohio, in 1867 ; and after teach- 

 ing in Kentucky for several years he became superintendent of schools at Hamilton, 

 Ohio. He afterwards held a similar position at Sandusky, Ohio, but in 1887 was 

 called back to his old position at the head of the Hamilton schools, which he has 

 held up to the present time. He has been active as a worker in teachers' institutes, 

 and as a lecturer at farmers' institutes. He also served for 5 years as a member 

 of the board of trustees of the Ohio State University. 



Georgia Station. — H. J. Wing of Auburn, Ohio, has been elected dairyman of the 

 station. The station laboratory is now equipjied for work, and will be in charge 

 of the assistant chemist, R. E. Hardee. It is proposed to erect a tobacco barn and 

 to undertake iield experiments with tobacco in view of the fact that the farmers 

 of the State are becoming interested in the culture of this plant. 



Illinois Station. — S. A. Forbes, Pii. D., has been appointed a member of the 

 board of direction. The report of the State entomologist, covering the years 1889 

 and 1890, has recently been issued by Dr. Forbes. The report includes articles on 

 the history, description, and life history of the fruit bark beetle (Scolytus rugulosus), 

 with suggestions regarding remedies and abstracts of the literature on this insect; 

 feeding and insecticide experiments with the plum and peach curculio (Conotrachelua 

 nenuphar); descriptive notes on the American plum borer (Euzophera semifuneralis), 

 with references to literature ; notes on the life history of common white grubs of the 

 gvnenh Lachnosterna and Cydocephala, their food and feeding habits; experiments 

 with remedies, accounts of parasites and description of a few species, and a list of 31 

 species of Lachnosterna found in lllin.ois, with a key to these species ; additional 

 notes on the life history of the Hessian fly {Cecidomyia destructor), with a table of 

 results of new and old breeding-cage experiments, and a brief account of experi- 

 ments in breeding the fly on grasses; a summary history of the corn root aphis 

 (Aphis maidi-radich) ; notes on a bacterial disease of the larger corn root worm (Dia- 

 hrotical2-punctata); descriptive notes on the diseases of the chinch bug (Micrococcus 

 insectorum and Sjyorotrichum globuliferum), with accounts of culture and infection 

 experimerit.s, and abstracts from recent literature on this subject. An appendix eon- 

 tains an analytical list of the entomological writings of W. Le Baron, M. D., the 

 second State entomologist of Illinois. The report is illustrated with four plates 

 containing 23 figures and a portrait of Dr. Le Baron. 



Massachusetts College. — The Twenty-Ninth Annual Report of the college, issued 

 in January, 1892, contains, in addition to the formal reports of its several depart- 

 ments, articles on military instruction in educational institutions, by L. W. Cornish, 

 and on tuberculosis, especially as affecting domestic animals, by J. B. Paige, B. S. 



Massachusetts Horticultural Society.— At a recent meeting of this society 

 W. E. Endicott read a paper on the library of the society, which contains many rare 

 and valuable works. The society desires that all persons who are interested in hor- 

 ticultural sul)jects should avail themselves of this library " as fully and freely as is 



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