NOTES. 



Idaho College and Statiox. — The position of agriculturist of the experiment 

 station and college has been declared vacant. Warren Truitt, of Moscow, has been 

 appointed a member of the governing board, and Frank E. Cornwall, of Moscow, 

 has been made permanent secretary of the board of regents. 



Iowa Station. — James Atkinson, of Guelph, Ontario, Canada, has been appointed 

 agricultural assistant in the experiment station, vice C. D. Reed. 



Maine Station. — Andrew J. Patten, of the University of Maine, has been ap- 

 pointed assistant chemist at the station. 



North Carolina Station. — B. W. Kilgore, assistant chemist at the station, has 

 accepted the position of State chemist and professor of chemistry in the Mississippi 

 Agricultural College. 



Wyoming College ani> Station. — F. P. Craves has been elected president of 

 the university and director of the station for a term of 3 years. At the annual meet- 

 ing of the board of trustees June 24, 3 of the substations were abandoned and pro- 

 visions made for disposal of the land ami sale of property at each place. The 

 substation at Sheridan was given a small appropriation to continue the work there 

 until the end of the present season. An appropriation was made for the substation 

 at Lander to continue the fruit and stock feeding experiments at that place. Some 

 improvements on the station farm were also provided for. 



Alaska. — Benton Killiu, member of the governing board of Oregon Agricultural 

 College, and W. H. Evans, of this office, were appointed a commission to visit 

 the coast of Alaska during the present season, paying especial attention to the 

 vicinity of Cooks Inlet, Sitka, and Kadiak, and report upon the agricultural and 

 horticultural possibilities of these regions. Collections of the native plants used 

 for food and forage will be made and the desirability and feasibility of establishing 

 an experiment station in the Territory will l>e investigated. 



Rev. Dr. Sheldon Jackson has also been authorized to visit the region adjacent to 

 the Yukon River, in Alaska, and collect information relative to climate, crops, soils, 

 native fruits and plants, and other agricultural and horticultural statistics. 



Necrology. — Carl Remigius Presenilis died June 11 at Wiesbaden in the eighty- 

 seventh year of his age. Professor Presenilis studied at the L T niversities of Bonn 

 and Giessen. After receiving his degree from the latter university he remained 

 there as the assistant of Liebig and later as a privat docent. Prom Giessen he was 

 called to Wiesbaden as professor of chemistry, physics, and technology at the 

 Grand Ducal Agricultural Institute. In 1848 Presenilis founded his analytical labo- 

 ratory in Wiesbaden, which has attained a world-wide reputation and attracted 

 students from all countries. He was a proline writer on chemical subjects, his 

 best known works being " Qualitative Analyse" and •' Quantitative Analyse" which have 

 passed through numerous editions and been translated into many languages. In 

 1862 he founded the Zeitschrift fur analytische Chemie, which has been accorded a promi- 

 nent place among journals devoted to investigations on analytical methods. In his 

 earlier years Presenilis was especially interested in agricultural chemistry, and in 

 1*47 published " Lehrbuch der Chemie fur Landwirthe, Forstmanner unit ('ameralisten," 

 which was translated into Dutch and English. Fresenius received many honors 

 and was a member of a large number of learned societies of Germany and other 



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