1917] NOTES. 897 



Holm, research assistant in agricultui-:il biochemistry, has been commissioned 

 first lieutenant in the Sanitary Corps of the Army Medical Department, and 

 Is expected to be assigned to investigations in the Gas Defense Service. G. R. 

 McDole, assistant in soils, has enlisted in the Sanitary Corps for duty in the 

 Gas and Flame Service. 



F. L. Washburn has been transferred from professor of entomology in the 

 college of agriculture, entomologist in the station, and State entomologist, to 

 become professor of economic vertebrate zoolgy beginning February 6. Dr. 

 C. C. Palmer, professor of physiology in the division of veterinary medicine, 

 has accepted an appointment as professor of bacteriologj', physiology, and 

 hygiene at the Delaware College. Shinjiro Sato, assistant in agricultural bio- 

 chemistry, has resigned to return to Japan. 



Recent appointments include G. E. Weaver as assistant professor of dairy 

 husbandry and assistant dairy husbandman, H. R. Searles as instructor in 

 dairy production, and Paul L. Miller as superintendent of the Morris school of 

 agriculture and siihstation, vice E. C. Higbie resigned. 



Missouri University and Station. — M. F. Miller has been appointed assistant 

 dean and director beginning November 1, 1917. Other appointments include 

 Dr. O. S. Crisler as superintendent of the serum production work in the de- 

 partment of veterinary science, W. L. Nelson as assistant in the agricultural 

 extension service, Frank L. W^right as assistant in boys' and girls' club work, 

 L. L. Alexander as instructor in farm crops, Dr. C. H. Hays as extension 

 assistant professor of veterinary science in charge of hog cholera extension 

 work. Bliss F. Dana, M. H. Fohrman, and Turner H. Hopper as assistants in 

 horticulture, dairy husbandry, and agi'icultural chemistry, respectively, Clifton 

 R. Thomson, S. R. Miles, and I. F. Nuckols as assistants in animal husbandry, 

 and E. H. Hughes as assistant to the dean and director and superintendent 

 of short courses. R. R. Hudelson, assistant professor of soils, has been com- 

 missioned first lieutenant in artillery, E. M. McDonald, assistant professor in 

 farm crops, as second lieutenant in infantry, and O. R. Johnson, professor 

 of farm management, and F. C. Fenton, extension assistant in agricultural 

 engineering, as second lieutenants in artillery. V. F. Payne, instructor in agri- 

 cultural chemistry, resigned October 5. 



Nebraska University and Station. — The corner stone of the new agricultural 

 engineering building has been laid and it is expected that the building will 

 be ready for occupancy next fall. Reinforced concrete construction has 

 been substituted for steel in the new plans. Plans are also being drawn for 

 a veterinary building, which it is hoped to erect in the sirring. 



H. B. Pier, assistant professor in animal husbandry, has resigned. H. W. 

 Thurston, jr., has been appointed associate professor of plant pathology, vice 

 G. K. K. Link on leave of absence from November 1, 1917, to take up special 

 work with the U. S. Department of Agriculture. F. E. Mussehl, of the Wiscon- 

 sin University and Station, has been appointed professor of poultry hus- 

 bandry, vice M. E. Dickson resigned, effective October 20. R. P. Crawford 

 has succeeded Floyd Wambeam, resigned, as agricultural editor. William B. 

 Nevens, assistant dairy husbandman of the Illinois Station, has been appointed 

 assistant professor of dairy husbandry. Miss Alice Loomis and Mrs. Emma 

 R. Davisson have been granted leave of absence for the academic year, the 

 former to take up work with the U. S. Bureau of Education and the latter 

 to engage in extension work for the States Relations Service. 



Nevada Station. — James B. McNair has resigned as assistant chemist, effec- 

 tive January 1, 1918. J. B. Menardi, assistant agronomist, has enlisted in 

 the U. S. Navy. 



