NOTES. 



Arkansas TTniversity. — The state legislature has appropriated $481,000 for the 

 ensuing biennium for the divisions of liberal arts, agriculture, engineering, and 

 education. This is an Increase of approximately 50 per cent over any previous 

 appropriation. An act was also passed whereby the university will hereafter 

 be maintained by a special tax of four-ninths of one mill on all taxable property 

 in the State. 



Delaware College and Station. — The state legislature has appropriated a total 

 of $285,890.27 to the college for the ensuing biennium. Among the items author- 

 ized are $125,000 for the new dormitory at the women's college, $32,000 per 

 annum for the maintenance of that college, $32,000 for a new heating plant, 

 $14,000 per annum for general maintenance, $10,000 per annum for the mainte- 

 nance of the agricultural department, $7,890.27 for agricultural extension, and 

 $4,000 to replace the loss of revenue due to the transfer of the fertilizer control 

 work to the State Board of Agriculture. 



Hawaii College. — Dr. J. F. Illingworth has resigned as entomologist to accept 

 an entomological position in north Queensland for a three-year period, begin- 

 ning about June 1. 



Illinois TTniversity. — A field of 32J acres, located near Elizabethtown in 

 Hardin County, has been presented to the university for experimental purposes 

 by a donor whose name is withheld. This is the twenty-sixth tract to be given 

 the university for agricultural work. In addition two pieces of land have been 

 purchased and 16 are under lease, making 44 fields under cultivation by the 

 college of agriculture in different parts of the State. 



Indiana Station. — Director Arthur Goss, who has been at the head of the 

 station since 1903, has resigned, effective September 1, to give his entire atten- 

 tion to his extensive farming interests near Vincennes. 



Iowa Station. — A. A. Dowell, instructor in animal husbandry, has resigned to 

 assume charge of the department of animal husbandry in the University of 

 Alberta, vice Kenneth McGregor, who is to engage in farming. 



Kansas College and Station. — A law was recently passed abolishing the state 

 boards of control, educational administration, and corrections, and creating a 

 single board in their stead. The new board consists of five members of whom 

 the governor is chairman, and will have charge of all state educational, benevo- 

 lent, and penal Institutions beginning July 1. Provision is also made in the act 

 for the appointment for all institutions under its jurisdicton of & general man- 

 ager at a salary not to exceed $6,000 per annum. 



The legislature has appropriated $80,000 to the college for the purchase of 

 land to be used for animal husbandry, dairy, and poultry farms, and $50,000 for 

 an addition to the agricultural building. 



Warren Knaus, of the class of 1882, has given to the entomolgical museum of 

 the college his extensive collection of Coleoptera. 



M. N. I.(evlne, research assistant in plant pathology at the Minnesota Station, 

 has been appointed assistant plant pathologist. 

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