NOTES, 



Maine* Station. — Ora W. Knight has been appointed assistant chemist and Prof. 

 G. M. Gowell agriculturist, the appointments to date from December 1, 1896, and 

 January 1, 1897, respectively. 



New Hampshire College and Statiox. — Hon. Frank Jones, of Portsmouth, has 

 been appointed to the board of control, vice Henry W. Keyes, of Haverhill, whose 

 term expired. Prof. J. W. Sanborn, formerly president of the Utah Agricultural 

 and Mechanical College, now of Gilmanton, New Hampshire, has been appointed to 

 the board of trustees of the college. 



A forcing house, 100 by 25 ft., and potting house, 40 by 20 ft., are nearly com- 

 •pleted. The cost will be |1,.500, defrayed by a special appropriation from the State. 

 These will be used for instruction and experimental work. An iusectary is to be 

 arranged in a portion of the old forcing house. 



New York Cornell Station. — Edward A. Butler has been appointed clerk of 

 the station, vice H. W. Smith, resigned. Prof. E. G. Lodeman, assistant in horicul- 

 ture, died at Mexico, New York, December 2. 



Oregon Station. — The station has begun to issue "Press Notes" each month. 



Pennsylvania Station. — R. J. Weld, a graduate of the short course in agricul- 

 ture in 1892, has been temi)orarily employed as assistant to the director in place of 

 E. H. Hess, who has been detailed for work at farmers' institutes. 



South Carolina Station. — Prof, W. L. McGee died October 22, 1896, from acci- 

 dental injuries received while in the discharge of his duties at the college farm. 



Texas Station. — J. W. Carson, assistant director and foreman of the farm, has 

 resigned, to take eifect January 1, 1897. 



Ontario Agricultural and Experimental Union. — The Eighteenth Annual 

 Meeting of this association was held at the Ontario Agricultural College, Guelph, 

 December 10 and 11. Many interesting papers were presented. 



Personal Mention. — Prof. \V. Fleischraau, of Kouigsberg. the eminent authority 

 on dairying, has been appointed director of the Agricultural Institute at Gottingen, 

 in place of Professor Liebscher. who died the past summer. The vacancies caused 

 by his transfer have been filled by the appointment of Prof. A. Backhaus, formerly 

 of Gottingen, as professor in the University and director of the Agricultural Insti- 

 tute; and Professor Kreiss as director of the Experiment Station and School for 

 Dairying at Kleinhof-Tapiau. 



Hugo de Vries has been appointed director of the Botanic Garden in Amsterdam, 

 succeeding Dr. Oudemans. 



Dr. W. Rothert has been chosen extraordinary professor of botany in the Univer- 

 sity of Kazan. 



Mr. L. P. Smith, formerly professor of agriculture at the Iowa Agricultural Col- 

 lege, who for over a year and a half has been connected with this Office, died, 

 suddenly at his home December 2, 1896. 

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