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Robertson, assistant in corn club work, has been promoted to agent in corn 

 club work. 



South Carolina Station. — The division of entomology has completed an elabo- 

 rate apparatus for the control of temperature and moisture. The principle 

 consists of pumping air through an ice chamber and expanding it by heat in 

 a second chamber to acquire the desired humidity. The temperature of indi- 

 vidual insects is recorded by means of an electric thermocouple. 



The division has also completed its iield laboratory for entomological study. 

 This building is equipped with the necessary thermographs for air and soil 

 temperatures and other apparatus. 



Vermont ITniversity and Station. — A. F. Hawes, professor of forestry and 

 State forester, has resigned to take effect February 15, to become extension 

 specialist in forestry in the Office of Extension Work in the North and West of 

 the States Relations Service of the U. S. Department of Agriculture. W. C. 

 Stone, assistant horticulturist in the station, has accepted a similar appoint- 

 ment in the New York State Station, and has been succeeded by John B. 

 Norton, a 1914 graduate of the Massachusetts College. 



Washington College. — The State legislature of 1915 appointed an educa- 

 tional commission of three senators and three representatives to make a 

 survey of the educational situation in the State, and specifically of the State 

 college, the State university, and the three normal schools. This commission 

 subsequently secured the services of the United States Bureau of Education in 

 making a survey, the results of which were recently published. The recom- 

 mendations in this report were embodied in a bill presented to the legislature. 

 In which provision was made for the transference of several departments and 

 all graduate work in engineering and pure science from the college to the 

 university. 



This measure failed of passage, and in its stead a law was enacted defining 

 the fields of work of the two institutions. This law provides that the courses 

 of instruction at the university shall embrace, as exclusive major lines, law, 

 architecture, forestry, commerce, journalism, library economy, marine and 

 aeronautic engineering, and fisheries, as well as instruction in medicine. Those 

 of the State college are to embrace, as exclusive major lines, agriculture in 

 all its branches and subdi^^sions, veterinary medicine, and economic science in 

 its applications to agriculture and rural life. Both the university and the 

 State college are to ofi'er as major lines courses in the liberal arts, pure science, 

 pharmacy, mining, civil engineering, electrical engineering, mechanical en- 

 gineering, chemical engineering, home economics, and the professional training 

 of high school teachers, school supervisors, and school superintendents. 



The law further provides for a joint board of higher curricula of nine mem- 

 bers chosen from the presidents and regents of the five State institutions of 

 higher learning. In the future all major lines of work taken up by any of these 

 institutions must first be approved by a two-thirds vote of this board. 



A second act was passed granting in perpetuity to the State college all 

 Federal land hitherto allotted to the State for a scientific school, and also 

 definitely allotting to the same institution all Federal funds granted under the 

 Morrill Act and all logisation supplementary thereto. 



States Relations Service. — Dr. E. V. Wilcox, administrative assistant in the 

 Office of Experiment Stations, has been transferred to the Office of Farm 

 Management of the U. S. Department of Agriculture, where he is to carry on 

 studies of systems of land tenure, and has entered upon his duties. 



Dominion Experimental Farms. — Tracts of timber land are being cleared and 

 prepared, mainly through the labor of interned aliens, at Kapuskasing in 

 northern Ontario and Spirit Lake in northern Quebec for eventual use as sub- 



