NOTES. 



California University and Station. — H. A. Hopper, assistant professor of dairy 

 husbandry and assistant dairy husbandman, has resigned to engage in farm- 

 lug, as has also Roscoe Farrar, instructor in soils and farm crops at Davis. 

 Both resignations became effective January 1. 



Connecticut State Station. — Owen Nolan has been appointed a chemist in the 

 station. 



Maine "University and Station. — J. R. Dyce has resigned as instructor in animal 

 husbandrj' to become instructor in animal husbandry at the New York State 

 School of Agriculture at Morrisville, N. Y., and has been succeeded by R. W. 

 Redman, dairy instructor in the state department of agriculture. Raymond P. 

 Norton has resigned as assistant chemist in the station to accept a similar 

 position in the Dairy Division of this Department. 



Massachusetts College. — The dedication of the new building for entomology, 

 zoology, and geology took place November 11. The dedicatory address was 

 delivered by Dr. L. O. Howard, of the Bureau of Entomology of this Depart- 

 ment, and Dr. W. E. Hinds, of the Alabama College and Station, presented 

 a brief history of entomological instruction at the college. 



The building is an imposing structure of colonial design, 100 by 120 ft. in 

 dimensions, and constructed of brick, steel, and concrete. A basement contains 

 spacious laboratories for geology and mineralogy, a rock museum, a laboratory 

 for insecticide analysis, and two rooms for spraying apparatus. On the main 

 floors are departmental offices and laboratories, a zoological museum, an insect 

 collection room, a libi-ary, a large amphitheater lecture hall, and smaller class 

 rooms. A greenhouse for experimental work in entomology is attached. The 

 entire cost, including equipment, was about $95,000. 



Michigan Station. — G. Herbert Coons, adjunct professor of agricultural botany 

 at the Nebraska University and Station, has been appointed research assistant 

 in plant pathology. Joseph A. Rosen has been appointed research assistant 

 in soil physics. 



Mississippi College. — Daniel Scoates, who has been in charge of ii'rigation 

 works at the Montana Station, has accepted the professorship of agricultural 

 engineering. 



Cornell University. — Three additional fellowships are announced in the col- 

 lege of agriculture. One of these is for the investigation of the effect of cement 

 dust on the setting of fruit, and another for the investigation of the nature 

 and control of the diseases of orchard crops, especially the New York apple ti'ee 

 canker. The third fellowship, for the investigation of the nature and control 

 of the fungus diseases and insect pests of orchard crops near Batavia, carries 

 an appropriation for two fellows, one in the department of plant pathology 

 and the other in the department of entomology. The first of the three fellow- 

 ships was established by private gift, and the remainder by the fruit growers' 

 associations of South Byron and Batavia. respectively. 

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