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Alaska Stations. — F. Fi. Rader and J. W. Neal have been sent to the Cop])er 

 River ('ountry to make a teniporarj' reservation for an experiment station. It is 

 expected tiiat a site will be cliosen, ground l)roken for seeding to fall grains, and a 

 residence and V)arn construcrted during the summer. At the close of the season 

 Mr. Rader will return to Sitka, while Mr. Neal will remain at the new station. 

 Reports from Kenai show favorable weather and crops doing well. At Sitka the 

 outlook is favorable for a good harvest. 



California Univeksitv and Station. — Dr. Leroy Anderson, recently elected super- 

 intendent of the San Luis Obispo Polytechnic School, will continue in charge of the 

 dairy department for the coming year. A large dairy barn is being constructed at 

 the station. Studies of the peach worm, conducted in Rlaci'r County by W. T. Clarke, 

 in cooperation with the county board of horticultural counuissioners, are al)Out com- 

 l)leted. Similar cooperative work on the red spider of the orange is being conducted 

 in Los Angeles County by C. W. Woodworth, assisted by W. H. Volck and the 

 county board. 



Colorado College. — -J. A. Stump, assistant in physics and civil engineering, has 

 resigned, to continue his studies. A. P. Greenacre, assistant in mechanical engineer- 

 ing and drawing, has also resigned. The college has adopted a j)]an of scholarships 

 and fellowships. A limited number will be appointed as scholars, who will receive 

 increased pay, and rank as fellows the second year. 



Connecticut Storrs College and Station. — Rufus W, Stimson, professor of Eng- 

 lish literature and oratory and acting president of the college since last September, 

 has been elected ])resident of the college. L. A. Clinton, of Cornell University, has 

 been appointed director and agriculturist. 



Connecticit State Station. — Dr. G. P. Clinton, of the University of Illinois, 

 entered upon his work as botanist of the station July 1. 



Florida College and Station. — II. E. Stockbridge, Ph. D., agriculturist, has sev- 

 ered his connection with the institution. 



Georgia Station. — S. IL Fulton, l)iologist and horticulturist of the station, has 

 resigned to accept a position in the Bureau of Plant Industry of this Department. 



Iowa Collecje and Station. — Dp. W. M. Beardshear, president of the college, 

 died at Ames August 5, 1902. Dr. Beardshear was born in Ohio, November 7, 1850. 

 In 186-4 he enlisted in the Army and served to the end of the civil war. He then 

 entered Otterl)ein University, anil after graduating with distinction from a classical 

 course at that institution, in 1876, devoted two years to post-graduate work at Yale 

 in Hebrew and Greek philosophy and theology. Leaving Yale, he engaged in minis- 

 terial work in his native State, and in 1882 accepted the presidency of Western College, 

 at Toledo, Iowa, which he held until 1889, when he was called to Des Moines as super- 

 intendent of the city schools. Dr. Beardshear was president of the Iowa Agricultural 

 College from 1891 until hisdeath. A year ago he was elected president of the National 

 Educational Association, and during the annual meeting of this organization at Min- 

 neapolis several weeks ago he suffered an attack of illness from which he did not 

 recover. He was appointed U. S. Indian Commissioner by President McKinley in 



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