1919] NOTES. 499 



professor of botany. Arthur L. Prince has been appointed assistant chemist 

 vice H. C. McLean, resigned ; Robert F. Poole research assistant in plant 

 pathology; and Lindley G. Cook assistant to the director. F. G. Helyar, di- 

 rector of short courses, has also been appointed professor of animal husbandry 

 and animal husbandman. 



New Hampshire College and Station. — Dr. H. R. Kraybill, assistant physi- 

 ologist of the Division of Horticulture and Pomology of the U. S. Department 

 of Agriculture, has been appointed professor of agricultural chemistry and head 

 of the chemistry department of the station. 



Cornell University and Station. — The College of Agriculture announces that 

 it will award a limited number of free tuition scholarships to students from the 

 devastated regions of France and Belgium. Holders of these scholarships may 

 enter at any time before the close of the academic year 1922-23. 



The department of iiiral economy has recently added several works of refer- 

 ence in economic history, particularly in the grain and provision trades. These 

 include complete sets of a number of periodical price lists for over fifty years. 

 These acquisitions and other promised gifts, when added to the material al- 

 ready in the university library, are expected to place the university in pos- 

 session of an unusual amount of fundamental material for the study of eco- 

 nomic history, prices, and the marketing of the great agricultural staples o-f 

 the country. 



At the New York State Fair, held at Syracuse, September 8 to 13, the College 

 of Agriculture, as part of its work in rural social organization, presented 

 several one-act plays in a " little coimtry theater ", to demonstrate the value 

 of rural dramatics as a form of recreation to bring coiuitryside communities 

 together. It was also the aim to show how easily the plays could be presented. 



Clark L. Thayer, instructor in floriculture, resigned October 1 to become 

 associate professor of floriculture at the Massachusetts College. E. L. Worthen 

 has been appointed extension professor of soil technology for the year 1919-20 

 vice E. O. Fippen, who has received a year's leave of absence. 



North Dakota Colleg'e. — Lieut. Horace A. Holaday of the Sanitary Corps, 

 nutrition officer at Newport News, Va., and formerly professor of chemistry at 

 the University of Idaho, has been appointed pi'ofessor of physiological chemistry 

 and head of the division of foods and physiological chemistry. 



Ohio State University. — Clark S. Wheeler has resigned as director of the 

 agricultural extension service, effective November 1, to engage in commercial 

 work. 



Oklahoma College. — W. T. Magee has been appointed associate professor of 

 animal husbandry. 



Pennsylvania College and Station. — Recent resignations include E. L. 

 Worthen, associate professor of agronomy ; George S. Bulkley, assistant pro- 

 fessor of dairy husbandry ; Dr. J. F. Olney, station bacteriologist ; instructors 

 W. W. Wood in agricultural extension, A. F. Yeager in pomology, and L. E. 

 Yocum in botany ; and assistants E. V. Bearer, agricultural education, C. G. 

 Ferrari in agricultural chemistry, F. W. Knipe in farm mechanics, H. C. Yerger, 

 jr., in dairy manufactures, and C. W. McDonald in animal hvisbandry. W. G. 

 Edwards, J. W. Miller, Fred Hultz, and A. L. Beam have returned from military 

 service. Among the new appointments are the following: As assistant pro- 

 fessors, Walter B. Nissley in vegetable gardening extension and R. R. Welch in 

 dairy husbandry extension ; as instructors, G. M. Foulkrod in farm mechanics, 

 John R. Eyer in economic entomology, Martin H. Knutsen in bacteriology, P. 

 Thomas Ziegler in poultry husbandry, Harold B. Pierce in chemical agricul- 

 ture, F. B. Lincoln in pomology, J. Stanley Cobb in agronomy, Lloyd W. Steel- 

 man in poultry husbandry extension, and J. Stanley Owens in agronomy ex- 



