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Alaska Stations. — H. P. Nielpon, of Kansas, Avho has been in charge of the Kenai 

 Experiment Station since April 1, 1899, has resigned, his resignation to take effect 

 November 1. He ■will be succeeded by P. H. Ross, a ''raduate of the Kansas Agri- 

 cultural College, who has been 'Sir. Nielsen's assistant the past summer. "\V. L. Neal, 

 who has been assistant to the superintendent of the Copper River Station the past 

 summer, has also resigned, hia resignation to take effect November 1. 



Arizona University. — President F. Y. Adams severed his connection with the uni- 

 versity during the summer, and has been succeeded by Kendrick C. Babcock, Ph.D., 

 assistant professor of American history at the University of California. 



California Station. — The poultry station authorized by the last legislature has been 

 estal)lislied in the vicinity of Petaluma, Sonoma County, and H. O. Woodworth, of 

 the New York State Experiment Station, placed in charge. V. A. Moore, of the 

 Veterinary College at Cornell University, spent some weeks in California during the 

 past summer investigating the pathology of poultry diseases for the station. Warren 

 T. Clarke, the field entomologist of the station, has been appointed assistant super- 

 intendent of university extension in agriculture or farmers' institutes. This will not, 

 however, take him entirely from active work in investigations in entomolog}'. W. H. 

 Volck has been appointed temporary assistant field entomologist in the codling moth 

 investigation. Santa Cruz County has made an additional appropriation of $150, 

 thus making the total appropriation for this investigation from Santa Cruz and Mon- 

 terey counties §2,750. Several rooms are being added to the third story of the agri- 

 cultural building to provide for the fertilizer control work. 



Connecticut College and Storrs Station. — B. B. Turner, Ph. D., recently instructor in 

 chemistry at Cornell University, has entered ujion his duties as chemist to the college 

 and station, vice C. A. Meserve, who has resigned to accept another position. A 

 small laboratory has been fitted up for the station in the chemical building. The 

 college has revised its course of instruction somewhat and hereafter will not give a 

 degree to the four-year students who have entered the college from the grammar 

 schools, but a diploma instead, two years' additional work being required for the 

 bachelor degree. 



Delaware Station. — Clayton O. Smith has been appointed assistant in bacteriology. 



Hawaii Station. — A tract of about 100 acres of land in Kona, on the island of 

 Hawaii, is to be turned over to the use of the station for the purpose of making 

 experiments in tobacco culture. One crop of tobacco has been grown under shade 

 at Honolulu and has been sent to this country for fermenting. The crop made a 

 satisfactory growth but its quality is not yet known. 



Illinois College and Station. — The followiiig new appointments have been made for 

 the ensuing year: Joseph W. Hart, formerly of the South Carolina College and Sta- 

 tion and recently superintendent of the Kingston Dairy School, has become chief 

 assistant in dairy manufactures in the station and instructor in dairy manufactures in 

 the college; Cassius C. Hayden and Herbert A. Hopper, assistants in dairy hus- 

 Ijandry in both college and station; and Carl E. Lee, assistant in dairy husbandry in 

 the station. Louis D. Hall has succeeded E. B. Forbes, who has gone to Missouri, as 

 instructor in beef cattle; "William Dietrich, a graduate of the University of Wiscon- 

 sin, has been appointed assistant in swine husbandry in the station and instructor in 



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