NOTES. 



Arizona Station. — Dr. W. B. McCallum lias resijined as associate botanist to 

 act'ept a eouiniercial position in Mexico, bis I'esignation talcini; effect Jnly 1. 



Arkansas University and Station. — At a recent meeting of tbe board of trustees 

 additional appointments in tbe college of agriculture and statittn were made as 

 follows : P. N. Flint, of tbe (Jeorgia Station, as professor of animal busbandry 

 and animal buslcmdniaii : K. C. Tbompson. assistant cbemist at tbe Kansas 

 College and Station, as brst assistant in agricultural cbemistry; J. G. Stabl and 

 H. E. Stevens as assistants in plant patbology; George G. Becker, assistant in 

 entomology; J. M. Borders, instructor in agricultural education; and E. J. 

 Tbompson as assistant in animal husbandry. W. S. Jacobs, adjunct pi-ofessor 

 of agriculture and assistant agriculturist, bas resigned to engage in work in 

 Canada. 



Colorado Station. — L. G. Carpenter bas resigned as director of tbe station and 

 bas ])een succeeded by tbe entomologist, C. P. Gillette. 



Connecticut State Station. — Tbe new laboratory building is nearing completion. 

 A portion of it comprises tbe addition to tbe original laboratory building, 

 wbicb was being built at tbe tii^ie of tbe burning of tbe latter in January, and 

 tbe remainder is a restoration of tbe burned portion. Tbe wbole now forms one 

 building of uniform and nearly fireproof construction, witb two stories and 

 basement of brick and reinforced concrete, and 96 by 64 feet in size. 



Tbe basement contains a laboratory, macbinery room, sampling, storage, and 

 s])raying apparatus rooms, and a fireproof vault. On tbe first floor are a large 

 chemical laboratory, witb office, storerooms, and library, tbe forester's oflice 

 and w'orkroom, rooms for tbe botanical library and collections, tbe botanist's 

 office and laboratories, and a second fireproof vault. The second floor contains 

 three chemical laboratories, with an office, library, and storerooms, and rooms 

 for tbe entomological collections, library, office, and laboratories. 



Outside of tbe building but connecting witb it is a two-story a<ldition of 

 glass and concrete, containing an insectary and a greenhouse for tbe study of 

 plant diseases. 



Florida University and Station.— Tbe new station building, costing .$40.(100. is 

 nearing completion, and it is expected to begin tbe installation of erpiipment, 

 for which a grant of .$7,500 is available, soon after July 1. 



R. N. Wilson, of Guilford College, N. C and formerly assistant cbemist in 

 tbe station, has been appointed assistant in extension work in tbe university. 

 During the fiscal year ended June 30. 122 farmers' institutes were held with a 

 total attendance of about ten thousand. A considerable amount of other exten- 

 sion work was also carried on, including a series of boys" corn institutes in 

 Alachua County, in which over five hundred i)articipated. and a special course 

 in technical citrus culture, known as the citrus seminar, wbicb was attended by 

 2S growei's. 



Illinois University and Station. — The resignations are noted of Raliih B. Howe 

 as instructor in pomology in the college of agriculture and field assistant in 

 pomology in tbe station, to engage in commercial work; of Clyde H. Myers, as 

 assistant chemist in tbe station, to take up graduate work at Cornell University; 



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