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Montana Station.— R. W. Fisher has been appointed assistant horticuUnrist of 

 the station. 



Oklahoma Station.— A. G. Ford, B. S., who was assistant in chemistry in this 

 station from 1898 to 1900, has been appointed associate chemist. A. B. McReynolds, 

 a sistant in chemistry, has severed his connection with the station. An assistant in 

 soils and crops has been provided for, but the position has not yet been filled. 



Pennsylvania College and Station. — John A. Woodward and ("has. W. Stone 

 liave been reelecteil members of the board of trustees, and Chas. M. Schwab and 

 M. E. Conard have been electe<l trustees rice Amos H. Mylin and Samuel K. Down- 

 ing Chas. A. Browne, jr., has been i)roinoted to the rank of first assistant chemist 

 of the station and instructor in agricultural chemistry in the college, and T. I. Mairs, 

 assistant superintendent of the correspondence courses, has also been appointed 

 instructor in animal industry in the college. At the recent commencement gifts to 

 the college were announced as follows: By Andrew Carnegie, 1100,000 for a library 

 building; by Mr. and Mrs. Chas. M. Schwab, $60,000 for an assembly hall, and 

 by Jas. Gilbert White, class of '82, $10,000 for a graduate fellowship and $10,000 

 additional for three undergraduate scholarships. Thorne M. Carpenter, assistant 

 chemist, and W. T. Carter, fellow in agricultural chemistry, are no longer connected 

 with the station. 



Texas College and Station. — J. H. Connell, director and agriculturist, has 

 resigned to accept the position of assistant manager of The Texas Farm and Ranch, 

 and will enter upon his new duties during the latter part of July. This, with the 

 previous resignations, will make an entire change in the agricultural and horticultu- 

 ral departments in the college and station, except in the case of the assistant agricul- 

 turist in the station. F. W. Mally, State entomologist, failed of reelection at the 

 June meeting of the governing board. 



Utah College and Station. — James A. Wright, horticulturist, has resigned to 

 accept a position as agricultural editor in connection with Tlie Salt Lake Tribune. 



West Virginia University and Station. — A. D. Hopkins, entomologist, has 

 resigned to accept the position of forest entomologist in this Department. K. C. 

 Davis, horticulturist, has resigned to accept the position of principal of the Dunn 

 County Agricultural School, in Wisconsin. 



Association of A.merican Agricultural Colleges and Experiment Stations. — 

 The announcement has been issued of the sixteenth annual convention of the 

 association, to be held at Atlanta, Ga., October 7, 1902. "Atlanta and Athens have 

 been selected on invitation of the city, the chamber of connnerce, the citizens, and 

 the State Universit}'. Arrangements have been made for hoUling one session at 

 Athens and a meeting of station workers at Experiment. After adjournment, excur- 

 sions will be offered at liberal rates to Lookout ^lountain, Tenn., and Asheville, N. C, 

 the latter at the invitation of -\Ir. George Vanderbilt. Concessions, it is expected, will 

 be obtained from the railroads and the hotels. Full details of all neces.sary matters 

 will be sent out by the secretary well in advance of the date of the meeting. The 

 general programme and programmes for the sections will be duly issued, together 

 with circulars of information respecting hotel rates and places of meeting." 



Briarcliff School. — The School of Practical Agriculture at Briarcliff Manor, 

 N. Y., has outgrown its present quarters on the farm of Mr. W. W. T.,aw, and it has been 

 decided by the trustees to .seek a new location, where there will In* greater ojjportu- 

 nity for growth. A tract of 415 acres near Poughkeepsie, X. Y., has been securetl 

 for a permanent site, and the erection of the necessary buildings will proceed as rap- 

 idly as funds are available. It is ho{)ed to transfer the ,«chool from Briarcliff .Manor 

 some time next spring. For the immeiliate needs of the school a fund of $200,000 is 

 being raised by subscription. Additional subscriptions have been asked for, and it 

 is hoped eventually to swell the fund to $1,000,000. Speaking of the school. Director 

 George T. Powell says: "At P<jughkeepsie, to an extent greater than has been possible 



