1916] NOTES. 699 



Pennsylvania College and Station. — M. G. Kains, professor of horticulture 

 and horticulturist, resigned October 1 and has been succeeded by Dr. S. W. 

 Fletcher, formerly director of the Virginia Station. Earle L. Moffitt has been 

 appointed assistant professor of farm management extension, effective Novem- 

 ber 13. A. B. Long, G. J. Kuhlman, and F. J. Holben have resigned as assistant 

 chemists. R. H. Olmstead, a graduate of the college, has been appointed 

 assistant in animal husbandry ; H. Clyde Knandel, instructor in poultry hus- 

 bandry extension ; Albert F. Yeager and John S. Gardner, instructors in 

 horticulture; and C. H. Hadley, jr., instructor in entomology extension. 



Utah College and Station. — E. P. Taylor, profes.sor of horticulture and horti- 

 culturist, has resigned to become director of agricultural extension at the 

 University of Arizona. E. W. Stephens has been appointed assistant state 

 leader of club work and will have charge of boys' clubs in the high schools. 

 D. W. Pittman has accepted an appointment as instructor in agronomy and 

 assistant agronomist. 



Wisconsin University. — A. C. Baer, instructor in dairy husbandry, has 

 resigned to become head of the dairy department of the Oklahoma College and 

 Station. 



Necrology. — Prof. Cleveland Abbe, widely known for his eminent services in 

 meteorology in the Weather Bureau of the U. S. Department of Agriculture, 

 died October 28 at the age of 78 years. 



Professor Abbe was a native of New York City and educated at the College 

 of 'the City of New York and Harvard University. He became assistant 

 professor of engineering in the Michigan Agricultural College in 1859, and sub- 

 sequently instructor in mathematics and astronomy at the University of Michi- 

 gan. During the most of the Civil War he was a member of the U. S. Coast 

 and Geodetic Survey, and from 1864 to 1866 a guest at the Nicholas Central 

 Observatory near St. Petersburg, Russia. 



On returning to this country he was appointed director of the Cincinnati 

 Astronomical Observatory and in 1868 volunteered to make daily predictions of 

 the weather for the benefit of the community. In September, 1869, he began 

 the publication of a daily bulletin of weather probabilities based upon tele- 

 graphic reports from observers at a number of points. These forecasts soon 

 attracted widespread attention. 



A national bureau of storm warnings was established in 1870 under the 

 direction of the Signal Service of the Army, and in the following year Professor 

 Abbe became a scientific assistant in that work. During the long period of 

 evolution of the U. S. Weather Bureau he was a prominent figure, editing the 

 Monthly Weather Review in 1873 and again from 1892 to 1909, and the Bulletin 

 of the Mount Weather Observatory during its entire period of publication. He 

 was also the author of an extensive list of meteorological articles and several 

 treatises. 



Professor Abbe was a member of the National Academy of Sciences and of 

 many other scientific organizations. He received in 1912 the Symons Memorial 

 Gold Medal of the Royal Meteorological Society of England and recently the 

 Marcellus Hartley Memorial Medal from the National Academy of Sciences, as 

 well as the degree of LL. D. from the University of Michigan in 1888 and the 

 University of Glasgow in 1896. 



New Journals. — Better Business, a quarterly journal of agricultural and 

 industrial cooperation, is being published by the stafC of the Cooperative Refer- 

 ence Library of Dublin, Ireland. The initial number contains articles on the 

 outlook for cooperators, the economics of continuous cropping, a translation of 

 a report of the German Parliamentary Committee appointed to consider the ques- 



