798 EXPERIMENT STATIOX RECORD. 



Minnesota (Jniversity and Station. — The former divisions of economic ento- 

 mologj' and of vegetable pathologj- and botany tiave been given the titles of 

 (1) economic zoologj' and (2) plant pathology and agriculi'ual botany, respec- 

 tively. 



C. W. Glotfelter, of Waterville, has been appointed a member of the board 

 of regents, vice B. F. Nelson, whose term expired April 1. F. B. Snyder and 

 Pierce Butler, whose terms expired at the same time, were reappointed. 



R. M. West, assistant professor of agricultural chemistry and assistant 

 chemist, has r&signed to become secretary of the State Department of Agricul- 

 ture, effective on March 1. Miss Mildreth J. Haggard, chemist in animal 

 nutrition investigations, resigned to take effect May 1. J. J. Willaraan has 

 been promoted from instructor to assistant professor of agricultural chemi.stry 

 and placed in charge of the section of agricultural analysis. C. H. Bailey, 

 cereal technologist of the station, has been given a year's leave of absence, in 

 order to take up work in the research laboratory of the State Grain Inspection 

 Service. 



Nebraska University and Station. — W. ^^'. Burr, of the Office of Dry-land 

 Agriculture of this Department, has been appointed professor of agronomy 

 and head of the department of agronomy, beginning July 1. 



New Jersey College and Stations. — Dr. Julius Nelson, professor of biology and 

 biologist since 1SS8, died Fi'l)ruary 15 at the age of 58 years. Dr. Nelson was 

 born at Copenhagen, Denmark, and was gi-aduated from the University of 

 Wisconsin in ISSl. In 1883 he received the M. S. degree from the same institu- 

 tion, and in 1888 that of Ph. D. from Johns Hopkins University. His best 

 known station work is his long-continued study, under a state appropriation, 

 of oyster culture. 



North Dakota Station. — I.. R. Waldron, superintendent of the Dickinson .'iuh- 

 station since 1005, has been appointed in charge of the crop-breeding work at 

 the main station and has been succeeded at Dickinson by John C. Thysell. 



Texas Station. — T. W. Buell. superintendent of the Denton substation, has 

 resigned to engage in farming. He has bivn succeeded by V. L. Cory, superin- 

 tendent of the Lubbock substation, and he in turn by R. E. Karper, assistant 

 agronomist of the Oklahoma College and Station. 



Washington Station. — An additional substation has been established at Lind. 

 Adams County, to be known as the Adams Branch Station. This substation is 

 planned especially for stuilies in dry-land agriculture and was acquired through 

 appropriations from the county board of commissioners, supplemented by gifts 

 from a railway company and various individuals. A foreman's cottage, barn, 

 and laboratory and office building have been erected, and crop and tillage 

 experiments are under way. ^I. A.^ :McCall has been appointed superintendent 

 of the substation. 



A temporary substation has also been opened at Winthrop foir the study of 

 animal diseases. A laboratory for the purpose has been erected. 



Wisconsin University and Station. — The department of experimental breeding 

 has recently occupied its new barn which has been especially designed for ex- 

 perimental purposes. The barn contains accommodations for about 20 cattle 

 and has a floor space 36 by G3 feet. 



The demonstration farm at Sparta is to he transferred to Hancock, where a 

 site of 25 acres, provided by the Hancock Advancement Association, is to be 

 utilized. 



W. J. Geib. of the Soil Survey of this Department, has been appointed assist- 

 ant professor of soils. 



Association of American Agricultural Colleges and Experiment Stations. — The 

 next meeting of this association will bo li'*l"l :ir Wnshlngton, D. <".. November 



