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A farm engine exhibit and demonstration was lield by the farm mechanics 

 department during the first two weelcs of January. 



A. L. Lovett, acting entomologist and associate professor of entomology, has 

 been appointed entomologist with the rank of professor. G. R. Hyslop has been 

 appointed collaborator in charge of the seed-testing laboratory, conducted 

 jointly by the college and the U. S. Department of Agriculture, with Miss 

 Norma Waddell as the official seed tester. 



Pennsylvania College and Station. — I. D. Wilson, D. V. M., has been appointed 

 instructor and assistant in animal husbandry, G. A. Meckstroth assistant in 

 botany, L. P. McCann assistant in animal husbandry, and A. L. Beam instructor 

 and assistant in dairy husbandry. 



Pennsylvania Institute of Animal Nutrition. — W. H. Matthews, a 1916 grad- 

 uate in agriculture of the college, has been appointed assistant. 



loito Rico College. — A revised course of study has been authorized by the 

 chancellor of the university. This consists of a four years' subcollegiate course 

 which provides sufficient technical work so that the collegiate work can be 

 completed in three years. It is thus modeled on the general plan of polytechnic 

 institutes that admit students to the sophomore classes of colleges. It is stated 

 that the full course now ranks with that offered by the stronger American 

 agricultural colleges. The enrollment has reaclK J 225, a decided increase over 

 previous years. Special opportunity is being offered students desiring to 

 prepare themselves for work in tropical countries. The classes are conducted 

 in English, but Spanish is usually quickly acquired as it is spoken by the 

 students. Short courses are also being offered to rural teachers. 



A new science building of 10 rooms has been completed and occupied. The 

 new dairy laboratory is also completed. 



Recent appointments include H. T. Cowles in horticulture, Dr. .Taime Bague 

 in animal husbandry, and Dr. R. I. Garton in zoologj' and entomology. 



Utah College and Station. — Dr. E. G. Titus, professor of entomology and 

 entomologist, has resigned to accept a position with the U. S. Department of 

 Agriculture in connection with its sugar-beet investigations in Utah and Idaho. 



National Congress of Horticulture.— Following a meeting called by the Ameri- 

 can Pomological Society, a National Congress of Horticulture was organized 

 at Washington, D. G., in Novonihei-. 1916, to serve as a central clearing house 

 of horticultural interests. Active membership is to consist of delegates ap- 

 pointe<l by affiliated horticultural organizations on the basis of membership, 

 and it is hoped thus to enroll representatives of from 50,000 to 60,000 members. 



E. R. Laice, of the Bureau of I'lant Industry of this Department, has been 

 chosen .secretary of the new organization. 



Necrology. — J. Wrightson. president of the college of agriculture at Down- 

 ton from 1880 to 1900, honorary professor of agriculture in the Royal Agricul- 

 tural College at Cirencester, and professor of agriculture and agricultural chem- 

 istry at the Royal College of Science at South Kensington from 1882 to 1898, 

 died Novenihor 30. 1916. 



Captain R. W. Nichols, assistant in nulling and baking at the central station 

 of the Cana»li;ui Experimental Farms, was killed in the Euro]tean Wnr October 

 23. 1916, at the age of 31 years. 



George G. Whive, professor of I'jiiui nianagemont and rural ofononiics at the 

 Manitoba Agricultural College, was killed October 10, 1916, while operating a 

 farm tractor. 



