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California University and Station. — Plans are nearing completion for Hilgard 

 Hall, the new reinforced concrete building about to be built on the university 

 campus at a cost of $350,000, and a wing of the present agricultural building. 

 This expense is to be defrayed from the proceeds of the $1,800,000 of build- 

 ing bonds authorized by the people of California through approval of an initia- 

 tive measure proposed by the alumni of the university. The other buildings 

 being erected from this initiative bond issue are Benjamin Ide Wheeler Hall, 

 a granite classroom building, to cost .$700,000, which will acconn^iodate 3,500 

 students at one time, and will contain also 47 studies for professors and a 

 lecture room seating 1,090 people; the fii"st unit of a new group of permanent 

 buildings for chemistry, this first building to cost $160,000; the completion of 

 the university library, on which $850,000 has already been spent, and on which 

 an additional $525,000 is now to be expended ; and a second unit for a central 

 heating and power plant, to cost $60,000, and to increase the supply of heat 

 and light so as to provide for these new buildings. 



A contract for about $100,000 has been let for the new buildings at the citrus 

 substation at Riverside. The principal building is to consist of a two-story and 

 basement center, 154 by 57 feet, with one-story wings each 100 by 55 feet. This 

 structure is to provide extensive laboratory and office facilities. The center is 

 to be used for aduinistration, the library, a lecture room, and laboratories for 

 entomology, plant breeding, soils, and orchard management, and one of the 

 wings for plant pathology and plant physiology and the other for agricultural 

 chemistry. 



A director's residence, barns, and other buildings are also being erected under 

 a $25,000 appropriation. About 125 acres have been planted to grain to test 

 the uniformity of the soil of the new site, and about 10 acres have been set 

 out to apricots and pears as a part of a series of experiments on the principles 

 of pruning. 



The last annual farm picnic at Davis was attended by about 16,000 people, 

 this being about three times the number on any previous occasion. 



Edward P. Van Duzee has resigned as instructor and assistant in entomology 

 to accept an appointment as curator of the department of entomology of the 

 California Academy of Sciences. 



Illinois Station. — Dr. A. D. p]mmett, a-ssistant chief in animal nutrition, has 

 accepted the position of research biological chemist with a commercial firm 

 at Detroit, INIichigan, beginning September 1. 



Mississippi College. — W. H. Smith, state superintendent of education, has lieen 

 appointed president, vice George R. Hightower, beginning September 15. 



Montana College and Station.— Leave of absence, terminating June 1. 1917, has 

 been granted to H. E. Morris, assistant botanist, and E. J. Quinn, assistant 

 chemist, for advanced study. Dr. E. H. Riley, assistant professor of animal 

 husbandry, has resigned to devote his entire time to the work of the State 

 Stallion Registration Board. R. C. McChord, instructor in animal husbandry in 

 Purdue University, has been appointed assistant professor of animal industry. 

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