NOTES. 



Arizona TTniversity and Station. — Director 11. H. Forbes has been granted a 

 year's leave of absence, a part of which will be spent in research at the Gradu- 

 ate School of Agriculture at Riverside, California. During his absence G. F. 

 Freeman, head of the department of plant breeding, has been designated acting 

 dean of the college of agriculture and acting director of the station. 



Connecticut College. — Dr. Edmund W. Sinnott, of the Bussey Institution of 

 Harvard University, has been appointed professor of botany and genetics, vice 

 Dr. A. F. Blakeslee whose resignation has been previously noted. 



Georgia College. — L. M. Roderick, D. V. M. (Obio State University, 1915), has 

 been appointed instructor in veterinary morlicine. 



Hawaii Station. — D. T. Fullaway resigned as entomologist June 30 to become 

 field entomologist of the territorial board of agriculture and forestry. W. T. 

 McGeorge, chemist, was transferred July 7 to the San Francisco branch of the 

 food and drug division of this Department and was succeeded July 2.5 by Max- 

 well. O. Johnson, transferred from the meat inspection division of the Bureau 

 of Animal Industry. J. B. Thompson, formerly in charge of the Guam Station, 

 was appointed assistant agronomist in charge of the Glenwood substation July 

 5, succeeding F. A. Clowes, resigned to take charge of the agricultural work at 

 the Lahainaluna School at Lahaina. 



Massachusetts College and Station. — Stockbridge Hall, the new agricultural 

 building, is nearing completion. This will be the largest and finest building 

 on the campus, costing with equipment $210,000. It is a three-story and base- 

 ment structure, with a fourth floor attic containing a cereal and crop storage 

 room constructed as a mouse-proof vault. The basement contains soil labora- 

 tories, a cement laboratory, and several offices, dark rooms, storage rooms, etc. 

 The first floor is largely devoted to offices and lecture rooms and to the audi- 

 torium. This auditorium seats about 900, and is bowl-shaped with a stage 22 

 by 36 feet. The second and third floors contain laboratories, offices, a library, 

 the agricultural museum, etc. 



The entering class numbers over 200 and the entire enrollment over 650. 



Recent appointments include the following: John Phelan, professor of rural 

 sociology; Andrew S. Thomson, assistant professor of market gardening; 

 Charles H. Thompson, assistant professor of horticulture ; Earl Jones, assistant 

 professor of agronomy ; O. A. Jamison, assistant professor of dairying ; Eric N. 

 Boland, in charge of boys' and girls' pig club work ; Paul Serex, Jr., instructor 

 in chemistry, vice Robert H. Bogue, appointed assistant professor of agricul- 

 tural chemistry in the Montana College ; Alfred G. Lunn, extension assistant in 

 poultry husbandry; Arnold P. Sturtevant, assistant in veterinary science in 

 the station for work in bee diseases ; F. G. Merkle, assistant in agronomy ; R. P. 

 Armstrong, graduate assistant in pomology, vice John B. Norton, resigned 

 July 1 ; Donald White, graduate assistant in poultry husbandry beginning Sep- 

 tember 1; and Harold F. Tompson for station work in market gardening. 



George F. Story has resigned as extension instructor in animal husbandry to 

 become professor of animal and dairy husbandry in the Vermont University 

 and Station, and J. A. McLean as associate professor of animal husbandry to 



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