NOTES, 



Connecticut College. — Dr. A. F. Blakeslee, professor of botany and genetics, 

 has been appointed plant geneticist at the Carnegie Station for Experimental 

 Evolution, beginning October 1. 



Kansas College and Station. — The graduating class this spring numbered about 

 200, of whom 46 received the bachelor's degree in agriculture and 65 that in 

 home economics. A course in plant breeding was offered in the summer scliool 

 for the first time. The fifth school for rural leaders gave special prominence to 

 rural sociology. 



Dr. Paul S. Welch, who has been connected with the investigations of staple 

 crop insects in the station, is now giving his full time to college work as 

 assistant professor of entomology. W. P. Hayes, assistant in zoology in the 

 college, has been added to the station staff as assistant in the staple crop insect 

 investigations. L. E. Hobbs, D. V. M., assistant in hog-cholera work in the 

 station, has resigned and has been succeeded by O. E. Strodtman. E. P. Harliug 

 has been appointed seed analyst and R. H. Needham assistant chemist. G. A. 

 Gilbert, instructor in daii-y husbandry in the college and assistant in dairy 

 manufactures in the station, has resigned, 



Maine University and Station. — H. D. Lucas, assistant chemist in the station, 

 resigned July 1 and has been succeeded by Walter H. Rogers, a 1915 graduate 

 of the university. 



Massachusetts College and Station. — A bequest of $4,000 for assisting worthy 

 students, made in the will of Major Henry E. Alvord several years ago, has now 

 become available. 



John Phelan, of the University of Wisconsin, has been appointed professor 

 of rural sociology. Arnold P. Sturtevant, recently connected with a comm-ercial 

 laboratory in Philadelphia, has been appointed assistant in animal pathology 

 beginning July 1 and will give special attention to studies of bee diseases. 



New Mexico College and Station. — Dr. E. P. Humbert, station agronomist, has 

 been appointed dean of agriculture, beginning July 1. Roland Harwell resigned 

 as assistant agronomist May 1 to become county agriculturist for Torrance 

 County, and was succeeded June 1 by J. G. Hamilton, a 1915 graduate of the 

 college. R. L. Stewart resigned July 1 as assistant animal husbandman, and 

 was succeeded by E. J. Maynard, also a 1915 graduate of the college. A. B. 

 Fite, another 1915 graduate, has been appointed assistant horticulturist, begin- 

 ning July 1. C. P. Wilson, formerly station stenographer, has been appointed 

 editor of agricultural publications for the station and the extension division 

 in addition to his previous duties as extension secretary. Dr. R. F. Hare, 

 station chemist since 1904, resigned July 1. 



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