OTES. 



Idaho Station. — The foundation is being laid for a small propagating house. 



Michigan Station. — C. E. Marshall, formerly instructor in bacteriology at the 

 University of Michigan, has been appointed bacteriologist to the station. 



North Carolina Station. — The station no longer cooperates Avith the U. S. 

 Weather Bureau in the conduct of the North Carolina section of the Climate and 

 Crop Service of the Weather Bureau. 



North Dakota College and Station. — Mr. J. A. Jeffery, a graduate of the 

 University of Wisconsin, has been elected assistant in agriculture in tlie college 

 and station. 



Pennsylvania Station. — M. S. McDowell has resigned his position as assistant 

 chemist, and Mr. C. A. Brown, B. S., has been appointed to succeed him. Mr. C. W. 

 Norris, B. S., has received a temporary appointment as assistant chemist to the 

 station. 



By action of the board of trustees, on recommendation of the director, the cream- 

 ery, which had been heretofore operated by the experiment station, has been placed 

 under the control of the school of agriculture, but will still be available for experi- 

 mental work. 



Utah Station. — A poultry department has been added, and experiments with 

 laying hens have been commenced. A building has teen erected containing 10 sepa- 

 rate pens with outside runs. 



Personal Mention. — Baron Ferdinand von Mueller, the well-known Australian 

 botanist, died October 9, 1896. A portrait and review of his life is given in Gard. 

 Chron., ser. 3, 20 {1S96) No. 512, pp. 464-466. 



Dr. Henry Frimen, one of the authors of Beutly & Frimen's "Illustrated Medicinal 

 Plants," died October 16, 1896. At the time of his death he was engaged on his 

 handbook of the Flora of Ceylon. 



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