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Idaho Station. — The citizens of Moscow have recently donated to the station 10 

 acres of land additional to the tract already given, making 94 acres in all. The 

 new tract is so situated as to add greatly to the value and convenience of the station 

 farm. Contracts for material have been made for a greenhouse, with work rooms 

 and class room. 



Michigan Station. — A. A. Crozier has resigned his position as agriculturist of 

 the station, and J. U. Towar, formerly of the Rhode Island College and Station, has 

 been appointed field agriculturist. 



A systematic series of soil examinations begun last year will continue through 

 this season under the supervision of M. W. Fulton, the object being to study the 

 relation of the soil to water. 



Montana College and Station. — Robert S. Shaw has been appointed professor 

 of agriculture in the college and assistant agriculturist of the station. 



North Carolina Station. — J. D. Hufham, jr., assistant chemist; S. B. Moore, 

 clerk; and L. W. Physioc, mailing clerk, have severed their connection with the 

 station; and the following appointments have been made: Mis. L. V. Darby, stenog- 

 rapher, and C. M. Hughes, clerk. F. G. Kelly has been changed from clerk to 

 assistant chemist. 



South Carolina Station. — J. S. Pickett has been made foreman of the station 

 farm. The station barn, burned by lightning August 5, 1897, has been replaced by 

 a large storage barn for dry fodder, silos, and motive-power machinery; a dairy barn 

 with a capacity i'or,52 cows; and a general purpose barn, the first floor of which is 

 used for stock and contains an office, milk room, feed bins, etc., and the second floor 

 for general experimental work, with seed rooms, etc. The poultry division has estab- 

 lished 36 pens 20 by 36 ft. and 9 runs 80 by 150 ft., all of which is inclosed with the 

 most improved poultry cable and picket wire. 



Personal Mention. — Dr. George Henry Horn, born at Philadelphia, April 7, 1810, 

 died at Busleys Point, New Jersey, December 24, 1897. Dr. Horn's works on North 

 American Coleoptera are well known. In his 150 more important contributions to 

 entomology and in minor notes he named 150 new genera and more than 1,550 new 

 species, very few of which are now classed as synonyms. 



Dr. Askenasy has become honorary professor of botany at Bonn. 

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