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ment; and Mabel Roe, assistant planl pathologist, have resigned. N. M. Cregor, 

 asslstanl in bacteriology laboratory, has been transferred to the department of 

 agronomy, and O. <;. Hanklns, asslstanl In boys' and girls' clnb work, has 

 been transferred t<> the department of animal husbandry as extension specialist 

 in swine husbandry. 



Director Thomas L\ Cooper of the station lias been appointed director <>f the 

 extension division, effective July 1, with T. K. Bryant and Goeffrey Morgan as 

 assistant directors of extension. .Mary B. Sweeny has been appointed head of 

 the department of home economics, beginning August 15. Other appointments 

 include John O. Barkman, instructor in dairy manufactures and extension 

 specialist in dairy manufactures, beginning June 1 ; M. B. Kroft, extension 

 specialist In farm management, beginning July 1; and J. Q Grimes, assistant 

 in animal husbandry. 



Oregon College and Station. — Appropriations by the legislature to the station 

 for the ensuing biennium include $50,000 for agricultural Investigations, 

 $30,000 for crop pests and horticultural investigations, £15,000 for soil, drain- 

 age, and irrigation investigations, and $10,000 for dairy investigations. The 

 appropriation of $25,000 per annum for the seven substations was continued, 

 and in addition the Hood River substation was granted an annual continuing 

 allotment of $4,000, the southern Oregon substation a corresponding allotment 

 of $2,000, and the Astoria substation a special appropriation of $2,000 for com- 

 pleting the drainage system and clearing land. The college also received a 

 special appropriation of $60,000 for an engineering laboratory, $15,000 for com- 

 pleting the barracks building salvaged from the Students' Army Training 

 Corps, and an appropriation of $157,566 for maintenance during the biennium 

 in addition to the proceeds of the millage tax already provided. 



T. B. Beckwlth, professor of bacteriology; F. W. Miller, assistant professor 

 of veterinary medicine; D. E. Richards, assistant professor of animal hus- 

 bandry; II. M. Wight, assistant professor of zoology; and L. W. Wing, assistant 

 professor of dairy husbandry, have recently returned from war service. Other 

 additions to the staff include B. B. Fulton, assistant entomologist of the New 

 York State Station, as assistant professor of entomology; A. W. Oliver as in- 

 structor in animal husbandry; W. A. Smart as crop pest assistant: E. H. 

 Wiegand as assistant professor of horticulture; L. P. Wilcox as research assist- 

 ant in horticulture; and Dr. S. M. Zeller as assistant professor of plant 

 pathology and assistant plant pathologist. 



Pennsylvania College. — W. W. Wood, instructor in agricultural extension, 

 resigned May 12. R. R. Welch has been appointed assistant professor of dairy 

 husbandry extension, beginning July 1, and John R. Eyer, Instructor in eco- 

 nomic entomology, beginning May 26. 



Utah College and Station. — A department of human nutrition has been estab- 

 lished in the station. R. L. Hill, Ph. D., formerly of the Maryland Station and 

 first lieutenant in the Sanitary Corps of the r. S. Army, has been appointed 

 head of the department, with Blanche Cooper, formerly nutrition expert in 

 the extension division, as associate. 



E. B. Brossard, Ph. D., instructor in farm management at the University 

 of Minnesota, has been appointed head of the department of farm management 

 which was recently established in the college and station. B. L. Richards, 

 Ph. D., has been appointed associate professor of botany. Capt. W. E. Carroll 

 of the Sanitary Corps has resumed his duties as head of the department of 

 animal husbandry. 



Virginia College. — President J. D. Eggleston has resigned to accept the presi- 

 dency of Hampden-Sidney College, effective July 1, and has been succeeded by 



