NOTES. 



Colorado College. — A four-year course in forestry is being offered for tlie first 

 time, !is is also a course in practical and theoretical training in library science 

 and library economy. 



Connecticut State Station. — The station is issuing what are called postal-card 

 bulletins, these being similar in form and size to ordinary postal cards. They 

 are not numbered or distributed with the regular bulletin series but consist 

 of brief notes of a popular nature, one recently issued discussing cankerworm. 



Harry R. Stevens has resigned as chemist, and has been succeeded by Clarence 

 W. Rodman. 



Georgia College and Station. — R. J, H. DeLoach has resigned as botanist in 

 the station to accei)t the i»rofessorship of cotton industry in the college, his resig- 

 nation becoming effective November 1. A portion of his time is expected to be 

 available for cotton investigations. 



Illinois University. — I'resident E. J. James has returned from a tour of inspec- 

 tion of the leading veterinary colleges of Europe, undertaken with special 

 reference to the new State veterinary college to be established in Chicago as a 

 department of the university. 



Purdue University. — A course in normal training, in charge of George L. 

 Roberts, has been added to the general curriculum, and is expected to be of spe- 

 cial interest to agricultural students. 



Kansas College and Station. — Mrs. Mary P. Van Zile has been elected professor 

 of domestic science and dean of women. J. E. Smith has been appointed assist- 

 ant in botany in tlie college, O. A. Stevens, assistant botanist in the station, J. C. 

 Cunningham assistant horticulturist, and J. B. Parker assistant entomologist in 

 the college and station. 



Louisiana Stations. — Dr. P. A. Yoder, a former chemist and director of the 

 Utah Station, has been appointed research chemist in the Sugar Station, vice Ur. 

 Fritz Zerban, whose resignation has been previously noted. 



Maine University and Station. — Recent appointments include F. L. Russell 

 as professor of bacteriology and veterinary science in the university and assist- 

 ant biologist in the station, V. R. Gardner as assistant professor of horticulture, 

 and W. A. Brown as assistant professor of poultry husbandry. 



The station has recently erected, ad.iacent to and connected with the main 

 building, a small greenhouse for the use of the entomologist and plant patholo- 

 gists. 



Maryland Station. — Nicholas Schmitz, of the Forage Crop Investigations of 

 (his Department, has been appointed agronomist, and will enter upon his duties 

 January 1, 1909. The State Live Stock Sanitary Board is to cooperate with the 

 station in a test of the new hog-cholera serum of this Department, and will 

 undertake its distribution if favorable results are obtained. 



Missouri Station. — Francis Ward Woodman has been appointed research 

 assistant chemist, and Charles Kenworthy Francis research assistant in agricul- 

 tural chemistry. 



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