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horticulture and forestry, and agricultural chemistry in this building, besides 

 quarters for the agricultural extension department and an assembly room with 

 a seating capacity of one thousand. 



Kansas College and Station. — R. K. Nabours, of the dei)artment of zoology. 

 University of Chicago, has been appointed instructor in zoology and assistant 

 zoologist, vice T. H. Scheffer, whose resignation has been previously noted. 

 Harry Evans has resigned as assistant entomologist to accept a position at 

 the Ohio Station. 



Maine University. — Dr. Robert J. Aley, state superintendent of public instruc- 

 tion in Indiana, has accepted the presidency of the university and will take 

 office December 1. Leon S. Merrill, dairy instructor in the state department of 

 agriculture, has been appointed head of the extension department. 



Massachusetts College and Station. — Following the retii'ement of Prof. C. H. 

 Fernald, as previously noted, Dr. H. T. Fernald has been appointed acting 

 director of the graduate school. F. F. Moon, of the New York State Depart- 

 ment of Forestry, has been appointed associate professor of forestry, and Alvah 

 J. Norman, of the Maryland College and station, has been appointed instructor 

 in pomology, his duties including both instruction and extension work. The 

 entering class numbers about 160, an increase of 25 per cent. 



Carl D. Kennedy, assistant chemist in the department of plant and animal 

 chemistry in the station, resigned September 1, and has been succeeded by 

 Clement L. Perkins. 



Minnesota University. — A conference on agricultural education was held at 

 the university July 29-30, in which representatives from the university, the 

 college of agriculture, the agricultural high schools at Crookston and Morris, 

 the Putnam schools, the state normal schools, and the state department of edu- 

 cation took part. There were also addresses by Dean C. F. Curtiss, of the Iowa 

 College, Dean J. H. Shepperd. of the North Dakota College, and D. J. Crosby, 

 of this Office. 



The object of the meeting was to formulate a plan for the futiu-e development 

 of agricultural instruction in the State. As a means toward this end resolutions 

 were adopted favoring the gradual extension of state aid to public high schools. 

 graded schools, and consolidated schools for departments of agricultural instruc- 

 tion ; appropriations for state aid to encourage the consolidation of small rural 

 schools; increased funds for state teachers' training schools; liberal mainte- 

 nance and equipment funds for institutions established for the general training 

 of teachers ; a limited number of agricultural schools like those at St. Anthony 

 Park, Crookston, and Morris, with strong faculties and adequate equipment for 

 advanced practical agricultural training; training in industrial arts in graded 

 and high schools, supplemented by continuation schools; and a state appropria- 

 tion to be used as premiums for a state industrial contest for boys and girls. 



North Carolina College and Station. — J. G. Hall resigned as instructor in 

 vegetable pathology in the college and assistant in plant diseases in the sta- 

 tion September 1, to become associate professor of botany and forestry in 

 Clemson College, and will be succeeded by Guy West Wilson, of Upi^er Iowa 

 University. Other appointments include Joseph Daggett Cecil, V. M. D. (Uni- 

 versity of Pennsylvania) as animal pathologist to the station, beginning Sep- 

 tember 1, and J. C. McNutt, assistant animal husbandman of the New Hamp- 

 shire College and Station, as dairy husbandman in the college and station, 

 beginning September 1. 



Ohio State University and Station. — The following assistants have recently 

 been appointed in the luiiversity : George A. Livingston, of the department of 

 agronomy of the Iowa C^)llege, in farm crops; George F. E. Story, Ohio State 



