NOTES. 



Alabama College and Station. — R. U. Blasingame, professor of agricultural 

 engineering and iigricultural engineer, resigned Xoveuiber 1 to become associate 

 professor of farm mechanics in the Pennsylvania College. 



Arizona Tniversity and Station. — Recent appointments to the board of 

 regents include Dr. William V. Whitmore, of Tucson, formerly trea.surer of the 

 board, as president and chancellor ; John P. Orme, of Phoenix ; E. Titcomb. of 

 Nogales; Dr. John W. Flinn, of Prescott; and Captain J. P. Hodgson, of Bisbee. 

 State appropriations for th'e college and station have been made of $72,569.59 

 for 1917-18, and $75,164.15 for 1918-19. 



California TlniTersity. — The dedication of Hilgard Hall took place October 

 13. The new building is an elaborate 4-story structure, of reinforced concrete, 

 60 by 300 ft, costing with equipment about $370,000 and constituting the second 

 of the three buildings which will complete the agricnltural quadrangle. It will 

 serve as the headquarters of the college of agriculture, housing the departments 

 of agronomy, citrlculture, fore.stry, genetics, pomology, .^oil technology, and 

 viticulture. A feature of the dedication exercises was a series of popular con- 

 ferences on subjects connected with the work of each of these departments. A 

 number of addresses commemorating the life and activities of Dr. Hilgard 

 were also given, including one by Dean Hunt entitled Carrying Hilgard's Work 

 Forward. 



Connecticut State Station. — W. C. Pelton, county agent for Sussex County, 

 Del., lias succeeded Howard F. Hubor as vegetable expert. 



Illinois University and Station. — Warren R. Schoonover. instructor In soil 

 biology in the department of agronomy and assistant biologist In the station, has 

 enli.sted In the gas defen.se .service of the Sanitary Corps, U. S. Army. 



Purdue University and Station. — W. J. Jones, Jr., professor of agricultural 

 chemistry and State chemist for the past 10 years, died August 31, aged 46 

 yea£S. He was a graduate of the university in 1891, and received the degree of 

 M. S. in 1892 and that of agricultural chemist In 1899. His entire career was 

 spent at the university and dealt especially with control work. He had long 

 been a prominent figure in the Association of Ofllcial Agricultural Chemists and 

 was widely known among fertilizer and feeding stuff control officials through- 

 out the country. 



Laurenz Green, chief In pomology in the Iowa Station, has been appointed 

 head of the horticultural department. Harry M. Weeter has been appointed 

 associate professor of dairy bacteriology and associate dairy bacteriologist, vice 

 H. B. Switzer. who has accepted a position with the U. S. Department of 

 Agriculture under the Food and Drugs Act with headquarters at Chicago. 



Kansas College. — President Henry J. Waters has resigned to become manag- 

 ing editor of the weekly Kansas City Star. 



Louisiana Stations. — Nicholas Kozeloff, Ph. D. (Rutgers, 1917), has been 

 appointed bacteriologist of the Sugar Station, vice W. L. Owen, whose resigna- 

 tion has been previously noted. 



Vermont University. — President G. P. Benton has been given a year's leave 

 of absence for service with the National War Council in France. Dean G. H. 

 Perkins, of the College of Arts and Sciences, has been designated acting 

 president. 

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