NOTES. 



Arizona University and Station. — M. M. Parker, of the Troop Institute, Loa 

 Angeles, California, has been elected president of the University rice Howard 

 Billman, resigned. 



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

 been elected president of the board of control. C. H. Waterhouse has beer 

 appoiuted superintendent of the creamery and Elwin H. Forristall superintended 

 of the farm ; and Leigh Hunt has resigned his position as assistant agriculturist ant 

 horticulturist of the station. The board of control at its last quarterly meeting 

 voted to discontinue the farm and creamery as a part of the experiment station. 

 Field experiments are to be confined to small areas and feeding and dairying experi- 

 ments arranged in cooperation with the college. 



North Dakota College.— A new drill hall and gymnasium, 40 by 94 ft., with 

 suitable gun room and officers' quarters is nearing completion. A fifty horse-power 

 boiler has been added to the heating plant, and steam is now furnished the mechan- 

 ical building for power and beating purposes. A large coal shed has also been addee 

 to the heating plant, which will afford storage room for a sufficient quantity of coal 

 to tide over any snow blockade liable to occur. The new chemical laboratory has 

 been completed and fully equipped. 



South Carolina College and Station. — Ernest Walker has bc3n appointee 

 entomologist and assistant horticulturist of the station. A poultry division has 

 been added to the department of agriculture of the college and station. 



Washington College. — The 5-story brick dormitory was burned November 22, 

 1X97. The building was occupied by 90 students, all of whom have been provide 

 quarters elsewhere. 



Wisconsin University. — W. L. Carlyle, a graduate of the Ontario Agricultural 

 College and for some years past an instructor in the Minnesota farmers' institutes, 

 has been appointed professor of animal husbandry in the University to succeed Johi 

 A. Craig, resigned. 



Personal Mention. — Dr. Schmidt-Dumont, assistant in the forestry experiment 

 station at Tharand, Germany, has been appointed director of the agricultural chem- 

 ical experiment station to be established at Pretoria, Transvaal. 



Dr. K. Pieler, formerly assistant in the agricultural-chemical experiment statior 

 at Halle, Germany, will succeed Prof. O. Loew as professor of agricultural chemistrj 

 in the University of Tokio. 



Dr. Albert Schneider has become professor of botany in Northwestern University, 

 Chicago, Illinois. 



Dr. A. Zahlbruckner has become associated with the botanical section of the Royal 

 museums of Vienna. 



Prof. G. Thorns, director of the agricultural experiment station, professor of agri- 

 cultural chemistry, and dean of the agricultural department of the Polytechnicnm at 

 Riga, Russia, celebrated the twenty-tilth anniversary of his connection with the 

 experiment statii n September 1, 1897. Several newspaper accounts of the life ant 

 work of Professor Thorns, published on that occasion, have been received. 

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