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Maryland College and Station. — James S. Robinson, horticulturist, has retired 

 from active charge of the horticultural work in the college and station, l)ut will retain 

 a nominal t'onnection with the institution. M. ^M. Strong, M. S. , has been elected 

 assistant chemist to the station. Mr. Strong is a graduate of the ^Maryland college 

 and has been for several years an assistant in the fertilizer insi>ection, but has spent 

 the past year in special study at Johns Hopkins University. 



Massachusetts College and Station. — Francis Canning nas been ajipoiiited 

 instructor in floriculture and will have charge of the greenhouses. Xeil F. INlona- 

 han, a graduate of the college, has been appointed assistant in the botanical depart- 

 ment of the station, and G. F. Freeman, of Alabama Polytechnic Institute, assistant 

 in the inspection work in botany, vice R. E. Smith. A general revision of the course 

 of study has been made which will go into effect at the beginning of the new college 

 year. Elec-tives are offered during both the junior and senior years. The State 

 board of agriculture has recently issued a special report by C. H. Fernald and A. H. 

 Kirkland, on the brown-tail moth, which is now doing so much damage to fruit and 

 shade trees in the eastern part of the State. 



Missouri College and Station.^H. J. Waters, dean and director, has been 

 appointed superintendent of agriculture for the Missouri exhibit at the St. Louis 

 Exposition and has been granted a leave of absence to take up this work. F. B. 

 Mumford has been a})pointed acting dean and director in his absence. An addition 

 is to be built to the new horticultural building, which is now occupied by the depart- 

 ments of horticulture, entomology, and botany. The addition will be used for exper- 

 imental work in botany along physiological, pathological, and ecological lines. A 

 feeding shed 300 feet long and 30 feet wide is being built. This is intende<l primarily 

 for the large feeding experiment which is being conducted in cooperation with the 

 United States Department of Agriculture. 



Montana Collecje and Station. — Samuel Fortier, director and irrigation engi- 

 neer, has been granted leave of absence from the college and station for one year 

 and has assumed charge of the irrigation work of this Office which is being carried 

 on ill California in cooperation with the State and the University of California. 



Nebraska University. — Frank G. ^liller of the Yale School of Forestry has been 

 elected professor of forestry. 



New Hajipshire College and Station. — The State "legislature has ajipropriated 

 a total amount of $40,000 for the college, $15,000 of which is for general exi:)enses, 

 $13,000 for equipping the new agricultural and horticultural building, $7,000 for a 

 greenhouse, and $5,000 for additions to the heating plant. Edith 'SI. Davis has been 

 appointed j)urchasing agent of the college and clerk of tiie station in the place of 

 F. C. Keith. 



New York State Station. — Milo II. ( )lin of Perry and Irving Rouse of Rochester 

 have been appointed on the board of control, to succeed Oscar H. Hale and ■M. L. 

 Allen, whose terms expired; and C. \V. Ward of Queens, to succeed E. A. Callahan, 

 deceased. The cattle barn, constructed to replace the one whit-h was destroyed by 

 fire last year, has been completed and the remodeleii administration building is being 

 occupied. Plans are under way for a new horse barn for w^hich an appropriation of 

 $5,000 was made by the last legislature, and for a fire protection system to cost $5,000. 



Cornell University.— r)wing to the failure of the State to appropriate means for 

 the maintenance of the college of forestry, estabhshed by the State at Cornell Uni- 

 versity, the trustees of the university have decided to suspend instruction in that 

 college until the means for its maintenance are provided by the State, and have 

 declared all positions on the instruction force, including that of director, vacated. 

 There was a prospect of an attendance of about one hundred students at the school 

 next fall. 



