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the November meeting of the Association of American Agricultural Colleges 

 and Experiment Stations. He was a man of broad vision, marked originality, 

 and clear thinking, and hnd rendered distinguished service in the fields of 

 research, education, and administration. 



George Roberts, head of the department of agronomy, has been appointed 

 acting dean of the college of agriculture and Dr. A. M. Peter acting director 

 of the station. 



The department of home economics was separated in September from the col- 

 lege of agriculture as the college of home economics, with Mary E. Sweeny as 

 dean. James Wright Wesson has been appointed assistant in agricultural 

 economics and G. M. Roach inspector in the food and drug department, both 

 appointments taking effect in September. 



Missouri Station. — F. L. Bentley has resigned as assistant in animal hus- 

 bandry to become instructor in animal hu.sbandry at the Pennsylvania College, 

 and has been succeeded by C. W. Sheppard, a 1916 graduate of the college of 

 asriculture. 



Nebraska University and Station. — H. E. Vasey, assistant professor of agri- 

 cultural botany and assistant agricultural botanist, resigned September 1 to 

 become instructor in botany at the Colorado College and assistant botanist in 

 that station. 



New Hampshire College, — J. M. Fuller, head of the dairy department of the 

 Oklahoma College and Station, has been appointed professor of dairying, vice 

 F. Rasmussen, resigned to accept a similar position at the Pennsylvania Col- 

 lege. Miss Helen Knowlton, of Cornell University, has been appointed pro- 

 fessor of home economics and dean of women. 



Ohio State TJniversity and Station. — William R. Lazenby, associated with the 

 university since 1881 and one of the pioneer educators in horticulture, died 

 September 15, at the age of 66 years. Professor Lazenby was graduated from 

 Cornell University in 1874 and served there as instructor in horticulture and 

 botany until 1878, and as assistant professor until 3881. At Ohio he was pro- 

 fessor of botany and horticulture until 1892, then professor of horticulture and 

 forestry until 1909, and since that date professor of forestry. 



Professor Lazenby was also one of the founders of the Ohio Station, serving 

 as its first director from 1882 to 1886, and then as vice director until his re- 

 moval to Wooster in 1888. He was a member of a large number of scientific 

 organizations, among them the American Association for the Advancement of 

 Science, of which he was a fellow and vice-president in 1896 ; the Society for 

 the Promotion of Agricultural Science, of which he was secretary from 1886 

 to 1891 and president from 1895 to 1897 ; the American Forestry Association ; 

 and the American Pomological Society, of which he had been vice-president for 

 several years. 



Arthur Huisken has been appointed assistant in soils in the station. 



Porto Rico Insular Station. — R. C. Rose has been appointed assistant path- 

 ologist beginning September 14. 



Vermont University. — M. C. Wilson has resigned as farm management demon- 

 strator of New Hampshire and Vermont to become state leader of county 

 agents in New Hampshire. He has been succeeded by Walter G. Tubbs, a 1916 

 graduate of Cornell University, who will give his entire time to work in 

 Vermont. 



Vir^nia Truck Station. — J. T. Rosa, instructor in truck crops at the Iowa 

 College, has been appointed assistant horticulturist beginning October 1. 



Honduras Experimental Station. — A tract of land owned by the State on the 

 Carretara del Sur, about five miles from Tegucigalpa, is being developed for 



