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Alabama College and Station. — Dr. F. L. Tliomns has been appointed assistant 

 professor of ontouiolos.v and :issist;u)t entomologist. E. A. Vaugban has suc- 

 ceeded (1. W. Ells as field assistant in entomology. 



Arkansas University and Station. — The extension service of the college of 

 agriculture has been much develojted during the last two years and has brought 

 the institution before tlie ])eople of the State to a degree not obtained hereto- 

 fore. Calls for information through corre.siKjndence alone have at least doubled 

 in the last six months. 



New appointments in the board of trustees include J. K. Mahoney, vice W. H. 

 Askew, deceased; Z. L. Reagan, of Fayetteville, vice Dr. Charles Richardson; 

 and J. K. Browning, of Piggott, vice T. A. Turner. 



Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Station. — Paul S. Burgess, assistant professor of 

 soil bacteriology at the University of California and assistant soil bacteriologist 

 in the station, has been appointed chemist, succeeding S. S. Peck, resigned. 



Idaho University and Station. — Dr. M. A. Brannon has tendered his resigna- 

 tion as president. E. J. Iddings, vice dean of the college of agriculture and 

 animal husbandman, has been appointed dean of the college of agriculture. 

 J. S. Jones has been appointed director of the station. 



The legislature has discontinued appropriations formerly given for extension 

 work, granting only an amount suflieient to meet the Smith-Lever increases, 



Iowa College and Station. — The department of chemistry has occupied the 

 new building which replaces that destroyed by lire about two years ago. The 

 new building is a three-story and basement structure. 244 by 162 ft., of brick, 

 stone, and concrete, and cost about $200,000. 



Dr. P. L. Blumenthalhas resigned as assistant chemist in the station to take 

 effect June 1. 



Maine Station. — Recent appointments effective Jlay 1 include Emery J. 

 Theriault, assistant chemist, and C. Hari-y White and Walter E. Curtis as 

 scientific aids. 



Maryland College. — Miss Katharine A. Pritchard, of Teacher's College, Colum- 

 bia University, has been appointed state agent in women's demonstration work. 



Michigan College. — The new veterinary building for clinical, hospital, and 

 surgical purposes has been completed. The building is of doric design. 174 

 by 78 ft., and includes a wing for stabling large and small animals, operating 

 rooms, laboratories, and oflices. A special feature is the operating room for 

 large animals, 30 by 30 ft., containing a horse operating table controlled by 

 hydraulic power and connected with a recovery stall so that animals may be 

 removed before recovery from anesthetics. 



Minnesota University and Station. — As a result of a recent conference con- 

 cerning substation work, the following general principles have been adopted: 

 All experimental work at substations and experimental farms is to be organ- 

 ized on a project basis, and foi'mulated, approved, and reported in the same 

 manner as are central station projects. Two types of studies may be carried on 

 at sub.statious, (a) regional problems, organized with substation men as leaders 

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