NOTES. 



California University and Station. — Construction is being begun on the labora- 

 tory building to cost $100,000 which is to be erected on the new 465-acre tract 

 at Riverside for the use of the Citrus Substation and Graduate School of 

 Agriculture. 



Donald Bruce, formerly supervisor of the Flathead National Forest of Mon- 

 tana, has been appointed assistant professor of forestry and assistant forester 

 in the station. Walter C. Dean, a 1915 graduate of the college of agriculture, 

 has been appointed assistant in the department of soil technology of the station, 

 vice Robert Pendleton, resigned September 1. 



Delaware College. — The college has recently received $500,000 from a donor 

 who wishes his name withheld. Of this sum $225,000 will be used for a build- 

 ing to house the entire activities of the departments of agriculture, general chem- 

 istry, and biology ; $75,000 to remodel the old main building, which will house 

 the social activities of the college; and the remainder will be invested as an 

 endowment fund. The men's college opened in September with 232 students in 

 attendance, 75 of whom are in agriculture. The women's college, which has 

 just received its second class, has 90 students in attendance. 



Kansas College and Station. — Edward C. Johnson, superintendent of institutes 

 and demonstrations, has been appointed dean of the division of college exten- 

 sion. M. G. Burton has succeeded J. C. Werner, resigned, as director of corre- 

 spondence work. Theodore Macklin has succeeded E. D. Baker, resigned, as 

 instructor in rural economics. W. A. Etherton, specialist in rural architecture 

 in this Department, has been appointed professor of rural architecture, and 

 Miss Nola Treat assistant professor of domestic science. 



Other appointments include M. F. Ahearn as professor of landscape garden- 

 ing ; David Gray, assistant animal husbandman ; Helen Hahn, assistant pro- 

 fessor of home economics and education ; Carl S. Hoar, instructor in botany ; 

 A. E. McClymonds, assistant instructor in agronomy and superintendent of the 

 agronomy farm; Frank E. Mussehl, assistant in poultry husbandry; N. E. 

 Olson, assistant in dairy husbandry ; Kurt Peiser, assistant in bacteriology ; 

 Dr. C. A. Pyle and Carl Thompson, lecturers in animal husbandry extension; 

 M. C. Tanqiiary, instructor and assistant in entomologj' ; J. ^Y. Zahnley, as- 

 sistant in agronomy ; and L. C. Williams, assistant to the superintendent of 

 institutes and demonstrations. 



Maryland College. — The total enrollment is 310, with a Freshman class of 91. 

 The college has established a correspondence study department with courses in 

 farm soils, fertilizers and fertility, corn, soy beans and cowpeas, horses and 

 mules, dairy farming, farm poultry, the apple, vegetable gardening, farm bee 

 keeping, food principles and food values, grounds of the farm home, farm 

 sanitation, rural economics, farm accounts, farm dwelling construction, gas, oil, 

 and hot-air engines, and pipe and pipe fittings. 

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