98 EXPERIMENT STATION KECOED. 



for study, niid I). ('. ('uclii-;iiu' and li. i\ Junes have l)een appointed assistants, 

 vice F. S. Putney and W. II. Melntyre. resi^'ued. 



Porto Rico Station. — George L. Fawcett, of the Sul)tropi(ai Laboratory and 

 Garden of this Department, has Iteen apiiointed assistant in ]>l:nit i)ntliolos;y and 

 has entered upon his duties. 



Clemson College. — 1). X. Rarrow, who has been engaged in the South in the 

 farmers" cooperative denionstratiou work of this Department, has been appointed 

 director of the agricultural department and professor of agriculture in accord- 

 ance with the recent plan of providing separate forces for the instruction and 

 station work in that State. He will enter upon his work at once. According to 

 a note in Science, Dr. ('. H. Shattuck. of Washburn College, has been appointed 

 to the chair of I>otany and forestry. 



Tennessee University and Station. — The 1908 session of the Summer School 

 of the South, held at the university June 15 to July 25, was extremely success- 

 ful. About two thousand students, mostly teachers from Tennessee and other 

 southern States, were enrolled. About 125 elected the agricultural work in 

 which for the first time courses were arranged sufficient to occupy the whole 

 time of the students. These courses were conducted throughout the session 

 aud included plant life, horticulture, animal life, animal husbandry, and agri- 

 cultural education, election of four of these courses being required. 



J. X. Price has resigned as dairyman aud has been succeeded by F. H. Dennis. 

 James Tyler has resigned as poultryman in the station. 



Texas College and Station. — R. T. Milner, State commissioner of agriculture, 

 has been elected president of the college to succeed H. H. Harrington, who 

 will devote his entire attention to the directorship of the station. E. Pv. Kout' 

 of San Marcos has been appointed to the commissionership of agriculture, 

 thereby becoming an ex-officio member of the board of directors. It is expected 

 that the next legislature will establish a number of additional substations. 



Virginia College and Station. — Dr. W. J. Quick has resigned as dean of the 

 agricultural department in the college, retaining his work in animal husbandry, 

 and has been succeeded as dean by H. L. Price, the horticulturist. Dr. Howard 

 S. Reed of the Bureau of Soils of this Department, has assumed the duties of 

 plant pathologist in the college aud station vice Dr. Meade Ferguson, who has 

 accepted the position of bacteriologist to the State board of health. W. D. 

 Saunders has been appointed State dairy and food commissioner. He will re- 

 tain the superintendeucy of the college creamery, but will be succeeded as pro- 

 fessor of dairying in the college and dairyman in the station by W. K. Brainerd. 

 formerly of the West Virginia University. W. L. Mallory. a 1908 graduate of 

 the college, has been appointed assistant in animal husbandry and agronomy 

 for work on Adams fund projects. 



Washington College and Station.— Dr. H. B. Humphrey, recently connected 

 with Leland Stanford Jr. University, has been appointed assistant professor of 

 botany in the college and assistant botanist in the station, assuming these duties' 

 September 1. G. A. Olson, of the Wisconsin University and Station, has been 

 appointed assistant chemist in the station, vice H. R. Watkins. whose resigna- 

 tion has been previously noted. W. H. I^awrence. superintendent of the Puyal- 

 lup Substation, has been appointed plant pathologist in the station and will 

 devote a considerable portion of liis time to studies of plant diseases in western 

 Washington. E. E. Elliott has resigned as agriculturist to become dean of 

 agriculture in the T'niversity of Idaho. C. H. Goetz. a postgraduate student at 

 the University of Michigan, has been appointed instructor in forestry. 



Wyoming University and Station. — T. F. McConnell has resigned as animal 

 husbaudmuu to engage in commercial work and bus been succeeded by A. D. 



