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Albert M. Field have been appointed assistant professors of agricultural edu- 

 cation, and John V. Ankeney, instructor in that subject. 



Other appointments include I. D. Charlton, extension professor of agricul- 

 tural engineering at the Washington College, as assistant professor of farm 

 mechanics beginning January 1.5; William A. Billings as assistant pathologist 

 of the station, beginning February 1; Gibson G. McKnight as laboratory as- 

 sistant in plant pathology ; and Lionel H. Laurence as mechanic and laboratory 

 assistant in agronomy and farm management. 



Montana College and Station. — C. N. Arnett, head of the animal husbandry 

 department, has been granted leave of absence for service in France with the 

 American National Red Cross. It is understood that his work will have to do 

 with the rehabilitation of the live-stock indusrrv in France in the vicinity of 

 the base hospitals. It is hoped to establish a farm near each hospital to be 

 operated to some extent by partly crippled and convalescent soldiers. 



Nevada University and Station. — Dr. Edward Records, assistant bacteriologist, 

 has been appointed director of the State veterinary control service and chief 

 of the department of veterinary science in the sialion, effective March 15. Dr. 

 liewis H. Wright, assistant professor of veterinary medicine at the Texas 

 College, has been appointed assistant veterinarian in the station, effective 

 April 15. 



Dr. C. A. Jacobson, professor of agricultural chemistry and chemist, has 

 resigned, effective June 30. N. F. Peterson, instructor in botany in the South 

 Dakota College, has been appointed assistant in range management, and George 

 Hardman, assistant agronomist, both appointments being effective April 1. 



New York State Station. — Everett P. Reed, assistant agronomist, has resigned 

 to accept an appointment as farm bureau agent in Ohio. George H. Howe, 

 assistant horticulturist, has enlisted in the Medical Corps. 



Rhode Island Station. — W. C. Irons, assistant in field experiments, and H. A. 

 Johns, assistant in chemistry, have resigned to enter military service. F, K. 

 Crandall has been appointed asssistant in field experiments beginning March 1. 



L. P. Howard, assistant in chemistry, died February 24, at the age of 25 

 years. He was a 1914 graduate of the Massachusetts College and had been in 

 the employ of the station since graduation. 



South Dakota College and Station. — James H. Shepard, professor of chemistry 

 and station chemist since 1888, died February 23 in Florida at the age of 68 

 years. Prof. Shepard was a graduate of the University of Michigan in 

 1875, and for many years was engaged in high-school teaching and as superin- 

 tendent of schools. He served as vice president of the college from 1890 to 1900 

 and was director of the station from 1895 to 1901. His textbook entitled 

 Elements of Chemistry, appearing in 1885, has been extensively used, and he 

 was also the author of a considerable number of bulletins dealing with the 

 chemistry of forage plants, sugar beets, macaroni wheat, etc. He was a prom- 

 inent witness for the Government in the bleached-flour cases, and well known 

 as an expert on the chemistry of wheat and its products. 



Washington College and Station. — A quarter section of land at Waterville has 

 been leased for 20 years for carrying on forage and cereal investigations. R. 

 Page Bledsoe, instructor in farm crops at the Kansas College, has been ap- 

 pointed specialist in forage crops in charge of thi.^ tract. 



Dr. C. A. Magoon, associate professor of botany and bacteriology, resigned 

 February 15 to accept a position with the Horticultural and Pomological In- 

 vestigations of the U. S. Department of Agriculture. William Hislop resigned 

 as animal husbandman, March 1, to engage in commercial work. 



