NOTES. 



Indiana Station. — J. M. Barrett, assistant chemist of the station, has resigned 

 to become chemist for the Hammond Packing House, Hammond, Indiana. 



Nebraska University. — An association was organized March 10, 1898, to be 

 known as the Agricultural Students' Association of the University of Nebraska. 

 The officers are: President, C. t. Brown; vice-president, F. A. Swanson ; secretary, 

 Charles W. Melick. The executive council is composed of the Chancellor of the 

 University, Dean Charles E. Bessey. T. L. Lyon, A. E. Davison, A. L. Haecker, and 

 C. L. Iirown. The work of the association will be to carry on cooperative experi- 

 ments under the direction and supervision of the heads of the following depart- 

 ments: Agriculture, horticulture, botany, chemistry, entomology, and veterinary 

 science. The object of the association is to promote the cause of agricultural edu- 

 cation by causing the students to continue at home the study and investigation 

 which they have begun at the university. 



New Jersey Station. — The following clianges have been made in the board of 

 managers of the station : Rynier J. Wortendyke, of Jersey City, has been appointed, 

 dice Edmund H. Davey, resigned, and Elwood Evans, of Haddonneld, vice Isaac W. 

 Nicholson, deceased. 



Oklahoma College and Station. — The board of regents has been reorganized 

 as follows: President, R. A. Cowry, Stillwater: Gov. C. M. Barnes, Guthrie, ex officio: 

 R. J. Edwards, Oklahoma City; W. F. Port. Kingfisher; John C. Towsley, El Reno; 

 treasurer, Chas. J. Benson, Shawnee! 



Necrology. — Aime" Girard born at Paris December 22, 1830, died in the city of 

 his birth April 12, 1898. His life was devoted to the study of agriculture and rural 

 economy, and agricultural progress in France has been largely due to his efforts. 

 He made valuable contributions to the study of flours, bread, fibers, etc., but prob- 

 ably his best known and most valuable investigations were those relating to the 

 improvement of the sugar beet and the potato and their domestic and commercial 

 uses. In 1887 lie published Recherchea sin- le de'veloppement de la betterare a snore, 

 which was followed in 1891 by Recherches sur la culture de la pornme de ttrre indus- 

 trielle et fourragere. His knowledge of general chemistry and agricultural and 

 industrial technology well adapted him for his work at the Conservatoire des Arts 

 et Metiers, with which he has been connected since 1871. He was the first occupant 

 of the chair of agricultural technology, established in 1876, at the Institut Agrono- 

 mique. In 1882 he became a member of the National Society of Agriculture, and iu 

 1890 he was made secretary of the Society for the Encouragement of National Indus- 

 tries. He was elected a member of the Academy of Sciences in 1894, to nil a vacancy 

 in the section of Rural Economy. 

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