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Cornell University. — T. F. Hunt, dean of the college of ajri-iculture of the Ohio 

 State University, has been elected professoi- of agronomy. 



Ohio Station. — The station has been provided with a complete outfit for electro- 

 typing and printing, and is now printing it.s own publii'ations. 



Rhode Island College and Station. — An appropriation of $3,000 for one year 

 has been made for student labor and for agricultural demonstrations. A laboratory 

 for the study of animal diseases, particularly poultry diseases, is being fitted up by 

 the station, and additions are being made to the poultry plant for the purpose of 

 facilitating studies of the blackhead disease of turkeys. 



SoiTH Carolina College and Station. — Committees have been api)ointed liy the 

 board of trustees for the purpose of securing plans for an agricultural building, 

 including a pathological lal)oratory for the division of botany and bacteriology, and 

 an insectary for the division of entomology, an iron-frame greenhouse, a luiilding 

 for the Young Men's Christian Association, and a gymnasium. 



South Dakota Station. — The work of testing cereals in cooperation with this 

 Department which has been conducted at Mellette for the past two years has been 

 transferred to the substation at Highmore on account of advantages of the latter as 

 regards location and climate. The highest market price (!?7.25 per hundred live 

 weight, shorn) was recently received at Chicago for lambs fed at the station. 



Wisconsin University. — Charles R. Van Hise, professor of geology, has been 

 elected president of the university. His new duties will l)egin with the next aca- 

 demic year. 



U. S. Department of Agriculture. — C. B. Simpson, investigator, Division of 

 Entomology, has been appointed entomologist in the Transvaal department of agri- 

 culture. The appointment is for three years beginning July 1. E. S. G. Titus has 

 been appointed to fill the vacancy in the Division. 



Carnegie Institution. — The first Yearbook of the Carnegie Institution of Wash- 

 ington has recently been issued. It constitutes a volume of over 300 pages and con- 

 tains an account of the work of the institution for the year 1902. Tlie first part of 

 the volume is devoted to a reproduction of the articles of incorporation and by-laws 

 of the institution, together with the trust deed of Mr. Carnegie, the minutes of the 

 meetings of the incorporators of the institution and of the board of trustees, and the 

 proceedings of the executive committee. The greater part of the volume is occupied 

 with reports of advisory committees who were consulted with regard to prol)Iems in 

 various lines of research which might well be encouraged and supported by the 

 Carnegie Institution. The volume contains reports from advisory conunittees on the 

 following subjects: Economics, botany, physics, geology, geophysics, geography, 

 meteorology, chemistry, astronomy, paleontology, zoology, physiology, anthropology, 

 bibliography, engineering, psychology, history, and mathematics. The lines of work 

 which are recommended by the various advisory committees are much diversified 

 and cover very wide fields of research. In a summary of the plans and methods 

 thus far agreed upon it is stated that it is within the purpose of the Carnegie Insti- 

 tution to encourage any branch of science, l)ut that efforts will be made to secure 

 cooperation with other institutions and to direct the energies of the Carnegie Insti- 

 tution in such manner as not to interfere or compete with the work of other agencies 

 or institutions. It is stated that specific grants will be made for different purjioscs 

 to individual investigators, and these grants may be used for any purpose necessary 

 for the prosecution of the work undertaken by the different investigators. In the 

 appendix to the volume detailed accounts are presented of a number of proposed 

 biological explorations and investigations on a large scale. These include a biolog- 

 ical survey of the Palearctic region. South and Central America, the establishment 



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