NOTES. 1097 



Other recent aiipointniciits iiu-lude It. K. Stniic .-is assistant professor of ajiri- 

 enltnral botany and assistant in the station; It. C. Ashhy and Ellis Hail as ad- 

 junct professors of animal husbandry; li. S. Trumbull as adjunct professor of 

 ajirieultural chemistry; R. F. Howard as adjunct professor of horticulture, 

 and Erwin Hopt as assistant in tield crops at the North Platte substation, and 

 instructor of ajrrononiy in the school of agriculture. Alvin Keyser resigned 

 as professor of .soils June 1 to accept the professorship of agronomy in the 

 Colorado College and Station. 



Science notes that the regents are taking steps to locate tlie two additional 

 substations provided for by tlie legislature; one is contemi)lated for the sand 

 bill regions of central Nebraska and the other in the irrigated section in the 

 western part of the State. 



New Jersey College and Stations. — Daniel W. Horner, John E. Darnell, Samuel 

 B. Ketcham, Abram C. Iloldrum, and Henry Bell, of the board of managers of 

 the State Station, and J. B. Drury, of the board of trustees of the college, have 

 resigned and have been succeeded by Alexander P. Owen, of Mickleton. A. Engle 

 Haines, of Medford. Frank E. Bate, of Fishing Creek. Philip Todd, of Peapack, 

 Albert Richards, of Dover. Charles C. Basley, of Maywood, and Edwin Radford, 

 James McCarthy, and Emil Bonnot. of Jersey City. 



Dr. B. H. A. Groth, a graduate of Harvard University, was appointed plant 

 physiologist of tlie college station Ain-il 1, for research imder the Adams Act. 

 Leon A. Congdon. a graduate of Syracuse University, has been appointed assist- 

 ant chemist at the State Station in connection with the fertilizer and feedstuffs 

 inspection. 



Cornell University. — The legislature has appropriated $175,000 for the mainte- 

 nance of the college of agriculture, an increase over last year of $25,000. 



New York State Station. — In connection with the proposed grape investiga- 

 tions in Chatauqn;! County, the station has leased a 30-acre farm near Fre- 

 donia, where work will be carried on in general vineyard management and the 

 investigation of grape diseases and insects. In the grape disease work the 

 Cornell Station is to cooperate. F. B. Gladwin, previously a nursery inspector 

 nnder the State department of agriculture, is to be in general charge of the 

 work in Fredonia, and Frederick Z. Hartzell, of Cornell University, has been 

 appointed to carry on the entomological investigations. 



W. J. Young, formerly scientific assistant in the Bureau of Chemistry of this 

 Department, has accepted a position as student assistant in horticulture at 

 the station. 



North Dakota Station. — A pure-seed law has been enacted by the legislature, 

 under which a seed-inspection laboratory is to be established at the station. 



Oregon College. — The college is offering a reading course of five lessons in 

 poultry husbandry. A set of questions accompanies each lesson, and at the 

 end of the course u written examination will be given. Satisfactory completion 

 of the course will count a certain number of points in a poultry contest to Ijegin 

 in the fall, though the taking of the course will not be required of those entering 

 the <-ont('st. 



Pennsylvania College and Station. — The ai>propriaf ions by the legislature fctr 

 the ensuing bicnnium for the college and station aggregate .$5U5,0!t!).70. Among 

 the items of expenditure authorized are )fl7(i.7S(j for the school of agriculture 

 and the station, $109,050 for the school of engineering, .$0,.SGS for the main- 

 tenance of the department of home economics, and $4,000 for the institute of 

 animal nutrition. 



Porto Rico Station. — .Martin J. lorns. horticulturist since December. 1000, died 

 in the hospital at San Juan, May 17. Doctor lorns was born in Louisiana in 



