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California University and Station. — Tlio appointment by President Wilson 

 is nnnoiiiHi'd of neaii T. F. Hunt, now on sabbaticul loav(> in Europe, as the 

 member from the United States on the permanent committee of the Interna- 

 tional Institute of Agriculture at Home. This position has been vacant since 

 the death of the late David Lubin, to wliose suggestion the founding of the 

 Institute is accredited. 



The division of entomology has been reorganized as the division of entomol- 

 ogy and jmrasltologj'. W. B. Herms has been appointed head of the division, 

 continuiii.^' his activities in parasitology, practical medical entomology, and 

 ecology. The division is made up of three groups, viz, general entomology and 

 taxonomy, agricultural entomology, and parasitology in relation to animal in- 

 dustries, in charge, resi)ectlvely, of E. C. Van Dylie, E. O. Essig, and S. B. Free- 

 born. 



Carroll E. Howell, assistant professor of animal husbandry at the Wash- 

 ington College, has been appointed to a corresponding position In the division 

 of animal husbandry; and Walter E. Tomson, field agent in dairying at the 

 Montana College, has been appointed associate in animal husliandry. Ralph V. 

 Wright has btH.ni appointed specialist in agricultural extension. 



Idaho University and Station. — The department of soils has been discon- 

 tinued, the chemical plia.ses of the work being comliined with the department 

 of agricultural chemistry and those relating to crops with other crop work to 

 form a new department of agronomy. R. K. Bonnet, formerly professor of 

 farm crops, has been appointed professor of agronomy, with G. R. McDole, of 

 the University of Minnesota as associate professor, H. W. Hulbert as assistant 

 professor, and F. L. Burkhart as held superintendent. Station work in soil 

 physics and instruction in soils except .soil chemistry will be in charge of Prof. 

 McDole. and a soil chemist is expected to be appointed for research along 

 that Une. 



Recent appointments include Dr. Charles O. Williamson of the VetcrinaiT 

 College of Ohio State University as instructor in veterinary science vice Dr. 

 W. R. Kidwell, who has accepted a position with the State department of 

 agriculture; R. E. Gongwer of the Huntley (Mont.) Substation of the Bureau 

 of Plant Industry, U. S. Department of Agriculture, as assistant professor of 

 animal hu.sbandry; Sherman Dickinson, instructor in agricultural education at 

 the University of Minnesota, as as.sociate professor; H. W. Hulbert as assistant 

 and professor of agricultural education vice C. B. Wilson, who has accepted 

 a position at the Washington College; and Roy B. Gray as professor of agri- 

 cultural engineering and head of the department vice John C. Wooley, whose 

 resignation has been previously noted. 



Kan.sa.s College. — J. D. Parsons, assistant professor of farm engineering, 

 resigned August 1 to become a.ssistant professor of farm engineering at the 

 University of Nebraskii. R. II. Driftmier, a 1920 graduate of the Iowa College. 

 has been apftointed instructor in farm engineering. 



Louisiana Stations. — Dr. Nicholas KopelofE has resigned as bacteriologist of 

 the Sugar Station to become as.sociate in bacteriology' at the P.sychiatric 

 Institute of the New York State Hospital. 



Massarliusetts College and Station. — New buildings include Abigail Adams 

 House, a women's dormitory housing about 100 students, a cavalry barn to 

 accommodate the cavalry unit to be estiiblished at the college by the War 

 Department, and a horticultural manufactures laboratory building. 



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