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have been purchased for use in the investigation, which is expected to extend over 

 several years. J. A. Fries, first assistant in animal nutrition, has been given a year's 

 leave of absence for study abroad. The position will be filled during his absence by 

 W. W. Braman, formerly second assistant in animal nutrition, and R. E. Stallings, 

 assistant chemist, will serve as second assistant in animal nutrition. The fellowships 

 in agricultural chemistry and dairy husbandry have been discontinued. 



South Carolina College and Station. — Dr. Louis A. Klein has been elected to succeed 

 Dr. G. E. Nesom as chief of the veterinary division. F. C. Atkinson has been 

 appointed assistant chemist. 



Tennessee University and Station. — Dr. Brown Ayres, formerly dean and professor 

 of physics at Tulane University, New Orleans, has succeeded Dr. Charles W. Dahli- 

 as president of the university. Samuel M. Bain, botanist of the university and sta- 

 tion, has undertaken work in cooperation with the Bureau of Plant Industry of this 

 Department in the breeding of varieties of cotton resistant to attacks of the boll- 

 weevil. During Professor Bain's necessary absence in carrying on this work Samuel 

 H. Essary has been appointed assistant botanist of the station and instructor in 

 botany in the university. Henry H. Hampton, assistant chemist of the station, has 

 been succeeded by Walter H. Brown. 



Virginia Station. — The station staff was reorganized the past summer, as follows: 

 Andrew M. Soule has been appointed director; Harvey L. Price, horticulturist; Wil- 

 liam D. Saunders, dairy husbandman; Meade Ferguson, bacteriologist; John G. 

 Ferneyhough, veterinarian; John R. Fain, agronomist; William A. P. Moncure, 

 assistant mycologist; Phares 0. Vanatter, field experiments; Walter Ellett, assistant 

 chemist; Arthur P. Spencer, assistant in animal husbandry; Ellison A. Smyth, con- 

 sulting biologist; David 0. Xourse, consulting agronomist; Thomas L. Watson, con- 

 sulting geologist; Clement E. Craig, foreman of the field experiments. The work of 

 the station will be specialized much more in the future than in the past and the 

 working force more than doubled. An extensive system of field investigations will 

 be undertaken. The department of field experiments will conduct the field work 

 proper. The chemical and soil work will be undertaken by the department of chem- 

 istry. A forty-acre field has been laid out for this work, and extensive plantings 

 made this fall. Special attention will be given to the department of animal hus- 

 bandry, and the plans are now on foot to organize extensive feeding experiments 

 with beef and dairy cattle, and swine. The college maintains about 300 head of live 

 stock, a large percentage of which are pure-bred animals, there being choice repre- 

 sentatives of three of the principal beef and dairy breeds. The dairy department 

 will also undertake some special lines of investigation on pasteurized milk at an 

 early date, while studies on soil bacteria will be undertaken by the bacteriologist. 

 The work on cider making and the chemistry of fruits wull be continued. 



Wyoming Station. — F. E. Hepner, of South Dakota, has been appointed research 

 chemist of the station. He began work October 1. The plans of work for the year 

 in chemistry include water and forage plant analyses and digestion experiments with 

 high-altitude stock foods. E. E. Nelson, assistant in horticulture and agrostology, 

 resigned his position, to take effect October 1. B. P. Fleming, irrigation engineer 

 of the station, has resigned his position in order to continue his studies at Cornell 

 University. 



United States Department of Agriculture. — Dr. R. E. B. McKenney, assistant physi- 

 ologist in the Bureau of Plant Industry, who has been making a special study of the 

 mosaic disease of tobacco, has resigned to accept a position with a firm doing business 

 at Panama. 



Dr. Ernst A. Bessey, who has been abroad for over two years, returned in October. 

 While abroad he traveled in Russia, the Caucasus, Turkestan, and Algeria for this 

 Department. He spent some time in study in the Universities of Halle and Munich, 

 finishing his work for the doctorate in Halle last spring. He has been appointed in 



