NOTES. 1*)() 



soil work to lurept a position as assistant soil chemist in this Department. The soil 

 investigations which the station has carried on for several years will be discontinued. 

 H. ('. Whitford has been appointed to the position vacated by R. H. P(jnd, assistant 

 plant jiatliolo'iist. The board of trustees at their annual meeting made provisions 

 for liuilding a house tu furnish quarters for the herdsmen and for the dairy and 

 horticultural apprentices at the station. 



^Iaine Station. — H. W. Britcher has been appointetl assistant zoologist to the 

 statior. 



^Iis.M)iKi Station. — J. F. Gmelich, of Boouville, has succeeded N. M. Givan as a 

 memlier of the governing board of the station. 



>sEi5KASKA University and Station. — E. A. Burnett has been matle director of 

 the station, rice Chancellor E. Benjamin Andrews, who retires from the work of the 

 station. R. \V. Thatcher, assistant chemist of the station, has resigned to accept a 

 position as assistant chemist of the Washington Station. H. R. Smith, B. Sc., a 

 graduate of the ^lichigan Agricultural College, recently acting professor of agricul- 

 ture in the University of Missouri, has been elected assistant professor of animal 

 husliandry in the university and assistant in animal husbandry at the station, to take 

 effect September 1. W. H. Tuck, laboratory assistant in the department of animal 

 I>athoiogy, has resigned to accept a position with a large disinfecting company. 

 J. H. Gain, a graduate of Chicago Veterinary College, has been elected assistant in 

 the department of animal pathology of the station. 



New Mexico Station. — Theotfices of second assistant chemist and a.ssistant botanist 

 have been discontinued. 



North Carolina College and Station. — The college and station passed June 1, 

 1901, under the control of the State ):>oard of agriculture, composed of the folic >wing 

 members: S. L. Patterson, chairman of the board of agriculture, Raleigh; J. B. 

 Coffield, Everetts, X. C. ; E. L. Daughtridge, Rocky 3Iouut, N. C. ; W. M. Dunn, 

 Xewbern, X. C. ; C. X. Allen, Auburn, X. C. ; J. S. Cunningham, Cunningham, X. C. ; 

 A. T. McCallum, Red Springs, X. C; J. P. McRae, Laurinburg, X. C; L. G. Waugh, 

 Dobson, X. C. ; W. A. Graham, Machpelah, X. C. ; A. Cannon, Horseshoe, X. C. ; 

 Howard Browning, Littleton, X. C; J. R. Joyce, Reidsville, X. C. ; G. E. Flow, 

 Monroe, X. C. ; and J. C. Ray, Boone, X. C. The ottice of professor of agriculture 

 in the college and agriculturist at the station was vacated. A professorship of veter- 

 inary st'ience and animal industry and the oftice of State veterinarian were estaV)lished. 

 An instructorship in biology in the college and biologist of the station was also estab- 

 lished. President G. T. Winston, of the college, resigned as director of the station, 

 and B. W. Kilgore, chemist of the State board of agriculture, was appointed as his 

 successor in the directorship. 



XoRTH Dakota College and Station.— Two barns, one for horses and the other 

 for cattle, the combined cost of which will be about $18,000, are being constructed 

 to replace the large station barn burned January 5. Experimental work has been 

 undertaken at Edgeley, a little over 100 miles southwest of Fargo, under a small 

 State appropriation made for the establishment of a substation at that place. A 

 812,000 addition is l)eing made to Mechanical Hall, and the contract has been let for 

 the construction of one wing of a science l)uilding. 



Pennsylvania St.\tion. — Enos H. Hess has severed his connection with the sta- 

 tion as assistant to the director to assume the management of a large farm at 

 Casanova, Va. 



South Carolina College and Station. — The capacity of the chemical building 

 has been doubled by recent additions. A. P. Anderson, entomologist, has tendered 

 his resignation, to take effect September 1. P. H. Rolfs has resigned to ai-cept a 

 position in the Division of Plant Industry in this Department. He will be patholo- 

 gist in charge of the Tropical Laboratory at Miami, Fla. 



