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ogist to be located at the Delta Substation ; and Harris F. Wallace as assistant 

 to the director at the Holly Springs Substation. The legislature has also 

 authorized a new substation, to be located in the brown loam area in Hinds 

 County. 



Cornell University. — Dr, Cornelius Betten, secretary of the college of agri- 

 culture, has been iipixiinted vice-dean of resident instruction therein, begin- 

 ning July 1. 



New York State Station. — William O. Stone, assistant horticulturist, re- 

 signed May 1 to take up farming and has been succeeded by Thomas O. Sprague. 



Oregon College and Station. — James T. Jardine, in charge of grazing 

 studies in the Forest Service, U. S. Department of Agriculture, has been ap- 

 pointed director, beginning July 1. Dr. A. B. Cordley, the previous director, 

 continues as dean of the school of agriculture. Other appointments include 

 Earl B. Osborne and B. W. Rodenwold as assistant professors in animal hus- 

 bandry, H. N. Colmau as instructor in dairy husbandry, C. C. Ruth as as- 

 sistant professor of farm crops, J. R. Kevins as instructor in farm crops, A. E. 

 Bi'andt as instructor in farm mechanics, A. G. Lunn as professor of poultry 

 liusbandry, H. E. Cosby as instructor in poultry husbandry, and Ward Cretcher 

 as instructor in soils. 



Pennsylvania College and Station. — Graduate students have recently pur- 

 chased at public auction the Joseph Priestley homestead at Northumberland, 

 Pa. The house, which was built about 1795, is a frame structure, but is in 

 a remarkable state of preservation. It is expected to dismantle and reerect 

 it on the college campus as a memorial to Priestley, who built the house soon 

 after his removal to this country and occupied it luitil his death in 1801. It 

 is a two-story structure 45 by 50 ft., with a projection about 25 ft. square at 

 each end. One of these projections was the workshop or laboratory. 



The purchase has been made for the alumni of the college, but funds for 

 its removal and re-erection have been promisetl by an unnamed donor. Accord- 

 ing to present plans, the reconstruction is to be along the old architectural 

 lines, but modernized and adapted to some suitable iise by the School of Natural 

 Science. 



Recent appointments include J. Robert Dawson as assistant professor of 

 dairy husbandry extension, H. D. Muuroe as assistant professor of poultry 

 husbandry extension, and T. B. Charles as instructor in poultry htisbandry. 

 Dr. D. S. Fox, assistant professor of agronomy, has resigned, effective July 1. 



Porto Rico Federal Station. — Thomas Bregger, a graduate student at Cor- 

 nell University, has been appointed plant breeder. 



West Virginia Station. — H. H, Hanson, chemist in charge of feeding stuff 

 analysis, has been appointed State chemist of Delaware, in charge of a new 

 laboratory which is to carry on the chemical and seed testing work of the 

 State. 



States Relations Service. — Alvin Dille, specialist in agricultural education 

 and in charge of the investigations in agricultural instruction in schools since 

 1918, died June 13 after a sickness of several months' duration. Mr. Dille 

 was born in 1876. was a graduate of Ohio Northern University and Ohio Uni- 

 versity, and had also attended summer cotirses in education in the Ohio State 

 University, University of Chicago, and the Texas A. and M. College. His ex- 

 perience as a teacher of science and agriculture, as a superintendent of scliools, 

 and as a supervisor in the teaching of agriculture in Nueces County, Tex., 

 had given him unusual insight into the problems confronting subcollegiate 

 instruction in agriculture, and had rendei'ed his services in the preparation 

 of pedagogical material ol' great vahie. 



