NOTES. 



California University and Station. — The resignations are noted of Dr. J. 

 Eliot Coit, professor of citriculture, to engage in business in southern Cali- 

 fornia, and D. T. Batchelder, instructor in animal husbandry. Robert F. Miller, 

 of the Texas College, has been appointed associate professor of animal hus- 

 bandry, and will be acting head of the division during the leave of absence of 

 Gordon H. True the ensuing year. 



Colorado College. — R. A. McGinty, associate professor of horticultiire, has 

 resigned to engage in commercial work. 



Delaware College and Station. — A connnittee of station workers, consisting 

 of Dr. T. F. Manns, chairman, Dr. E. M. R. Lamkey, and L. R. Detjen, has been 

 designated as a research committee. This committee is to review and pass 

 upon all Adams Act projects and render assistance to project workers. It will 

 also pass upon all research manuscripts submitted for publication. 



An important two-day conference between station and extension workers was 

 held recently to discuss important agricultural problems of crop production 

 within the State. 



Henry P. Scott, of Wilmington, has been appointed to the board of trustees. 

 L. W. Tarr has been appointed chemist in the station, vice H. T. King, resigned, 

 and B. Davison, assistant horticulturist, vice R. A. Nehf, resigned. 



Idaho University and Station. — Dr. Ernest H. Lindley, president since 1917, 

 has announced his acceptance of the chancellorship of the University of Kansas. 

 H. A. Bendixen has been appointed assistant professor of dairy husbandry and 

 assistant dairy husbandman, beginning July 1, and will have charge of the 

 creamery instruction and the dairy manufacturing studies. 



Illinois University. — Dr. David Kinley, professor of economics and dean of 

 the graduate school, has been appointed president, in succession to Dr. E. T. 

 James. 



Purdue University and Station.— C. G. Woodbury has resigned as director 

 of the station to become director of the raw products division of the National 

 Canners' Association, beginning July 1. The administrative work of the station 

 will be merged with that of the extension activities, under the direction of 

 G. I. Christie, superintendent of agricultural extension. O. G. Lloyd, associate 

 professor of farm management in the Iowa College and assistant chief in farm 

 management in the Iowa Station, has been appointed head of the department of 

 farm management, beginning July 1. C. O. Cromer, associate in crops, and 

 W. B. Krueck, secretary of the stallion enrollment board, have resigned to engage 

 in farming. 



Iowa College and Station. — The semicentennial of the founding of the col- 

 lege was celebrated June 6-9, after a year's postponement. Among the spe- 

 cial features of interest were a memorial service for the 103 men from the 

 institution who gave their lives in the war, the subscription of about $50,000 

 by the alumni and $53,000 by the students toward a student and faculty social 

 imion building as a permanent memorial, and the presentation of a historical 

 pageant symbolical of the college history. 

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