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North Dakota College and Station. — Three members of the staff have re- 

 cently resigned, including ,T. W. Ince, as cliemist in the station to become pro- 

 fessor of chemistry in the Rhode Island College; T. A. Hovcrstad, in charge 

 of marketing investigations, to engage in business; and Edwin Mayland, in 

 charge of cost accounting investigations in the station, to accept a position as 

 farm manager. 



Tennessee University.— A department of agricultural economics has been 

 established in the college of agriculture with C. E. AUred, formerly farm help 

 specialist, as head. All work in agricultural economics, farm management, 

 and rural sociology' is to be grouped in this department, and considerable 

 research work is contemplated. 



Texas College and Station. — The legislature just adjourned appropriated 

 slightly over $3,000,000 for the college and its branches for the next two years. 

 Of this, $2,244,985 was for the main institution at College Station, including 

 the extension service and station, and with $250,000 for an agricultural build- 

 ing. The John Tarleton Agricultural College at Stephenville received $184,490, 

 the Grubbs Vocational College at Arlington $235,800, and the Prairie View Nor- 

 mal and Industrial College $397,070. 



Plans have l^een completed for an office building for the extension service of 

 the college to cost $100,000. 



Virginia Station. — T. K. Wolfe, associate agronomist, has been granted 

 leave of absence beginning October 1 to pursue graduate studies at Cornell 

 University. His duties have been assigned to J. C. Hart, superintendent of the 

 county station at Chatham, while D. J. Berger has been appointed acting super- 

 intendent of that station. C. F. Warren, assistant horticulturist, resigned 

 September 16. 



Wyoming University and Station. — C. V. Singleton has resigned as assist- 

 ant animal husbandman to engage in farming in Virginia. Dr. F. A, Hays, 

 for the past two years head of the animal husbandry department at the Dela- 

 ware College and Station, has been appointed associate professor of animal 

 husbandry beginning September 1. 



Karl Steik, engineering chemist, has resumed station work after a year's 

 leave of absence. 



Research in Entomology and Plant Pathology in Great Britain. — An- 

 nouncement was recently madi> in Parliament of a change in policy in 1918 

 regarding research in entomology and plant pathology through pul)lic funds. 

 These subjects were originally allocated to the University of Manchester and 

 the Royal Botanic Garden at Kew, respectively, with grants from the Develop- 

 ment Fund for their support. In 1918, however, the Development Board de- 

 cided that all research in plant diseases, whether due to insects or fungi, should 

 be concentrated at a single phytopathological institute at Rothamsted, where 

 also the board's scientific advisory staff in the subject would he stationed. 

 Accordingly the staff at IMauchester and a portion of the mycological staff at 

 Kew were transferred to Rothamsted. A gi-ant of $5,000, per annum, was 

 however continued to the University of Manchester to maintain certain phases 

 of its entomological work and also to take up work in mycology there. 



American Meteorological Society. — According to a note in Science, steps 

 are being taken to organize an American Meteorological Society at the American 

 Association for the Advancement of Science meeting in St. Louis next December. 



International Research Council. — This organization met at Brussels from 

 July 18-28. A general constitution was agreed upon, and steps taken toward 

 the international organization of several of the sciences represented. Provision 

 was made for triennial meetings at Brussels, which was designated as the legal 



