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Pennsylvania College and Station. — The re.signations are noted of L. C. Tom- 

 Icins, April 1, as instructor in dairy husbandry extension, and R. S. Spray as 

 assistant in botany, April 10. H. D. Edniiston, for many years assistant in 

 agricultural meteorology and transferred in 1915 from assistant in agricultural 

 chemistry to assistant in agricultural extension, died March 17. 



W. S. Taylor, formerly associate professor of agricultural education in the 

 University of Texas and more recently engaged in graduate work at Cornell 

 University, has been appointed professor of agricultural education beginning 

 April 1. Other appointments include W. B. Connell as instructor in animal 

 husbandry extension, M. D. Leonard and S. W. Frost as instructors in ento- 

 mology, and R. C. Walton as instructor in plant pathology. 



South Carolina College and Stations. — The resignations are noted of F. 

 J. Cridor, professor of horticulture and associate horticulturist, to become pro- 

 fessor of horticulture at the University of Arizona ; AV. L. Hutchinson as 

 professor of agronomy and acting chief of the agronomy division, and suc- 

 ceeded by C. P. Blackwell" as professor of agronomy, chief of the agronomy 

 division, and agronomist of the station ; R. L. Shields as professor of animal 

 husbandry and chief of the animal husbandry division of the station; W. A. 

 Thomas as assistant professor of entomology and assistant entomologist ; Dr. 

 W. A. Barnett as associate professor of veterinary science and assistant State 

 veterinarian; G. M. Armstrong as instructor in botany and assistant botanist, 

 to engage in pathological extension work for the Bureau of Plant Industry of 

 this Department ; and L. H. Leonian as research assistant in horticulture to 

 engage in plant disease survey work for the Bureau of Plant Industry. G. H. 

 Collings has been appointed assistant professor of agronomy and assistant 

 agronomist. H. E. Shiver has returned as assistant chemist of the station. 



Texas College and Station. — J. H. Foster, in charge of the division of fores- 

 try and State forester, resigned April 1, and has been succeeded by E. O. Seicke. 

 L. B. Burk, associate professor of animal husbandry, who has been acting as. 

 collaborating animal husliandman in swine investigations for the station, has 

 resigned to accept a position with tlie Bureau of Markets of the U. S. Depart- 

 ment of Agriculture. The station swine work has been put in charge of P. V. 

 Ewing, animal husbandman of the station. 



E. R. Spence, superintendent of the feeding and breeding substation near 

 the college, resigned April 30 to engage in farming in Missouri, and has 

 been succeeded by N. E. Winters, transferred from the Angleton Substation. 

 E. A. Miller has been appointed superintendent of the Angleton Substation. 

 R. W. Edwards, superintendent of the Chillicothe Substation, resigned March 

 1 to take charge of a farm in Kansas, and has been succeeded by A. B. Cron 

 of the Office of F'orage Crop Investigations of this Department. 



It is reported that up to the present time an amount equivaient to over 25 

 per cent of the annual station salary budget has been subscribed to Liberty Loan 

 Bonds of the various issues by members of the staff. 



Washington College and Station. — Dr. F. L. Pickett, head of the department 

 of botany, has been appointed botanist in the station. AV. S. Robertson has 

 been appointed assistant horticulturist. 



Wyoming Station. — Dr. H. M. Martin, research assistant in veterinary sci- 

 ence, has resigned to accept a position with the University of Nebraska and 

 has been succeeded by Dr. S. H. Burnett of Cornell University. 



Association of American Agricultural Co»lleges and Experiment Stations. — It 

 is announced that the thirty-second annual convention of this association will 

 be held at the Southern Hotel, Baltimore, Md., November 13-15, 191S. 



