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Missouri Station. — F. YV. Liepsner has been appointed assistant chemisl in connec- 

 tion with the soil survey work, and C. II. Hechler assistant in animal husbandry in 

 connection with the feeding experiments qow being conducted In cooperation with 

 this Department. 



Cornell University.— The registration in agriculture at Cornell University up to 

 October 20 is reported as 216, as compared with L78 last year. This is relatively the 

 largest increase in any department of the university. 



New York State Station. — W. II. Andrews, for more than ten years assistant chemist 

 at the station, died September 29 from Blight's disease, altera long illness. In hie 

 death the station loses a most faithful and efficient workerand his associates a sin- 

 cere and genial friend. 



North Carolina Station. — W. F. Massey has resigned his position as horticulturist 

 and will devote himself to editorial work. Charles Walker has discontinued Ins 

 work as assistant chemist to the station, and will hereafter devote his whole time to 

 teaching. I >. L. Bagleyand R. II. Barper, graduates of the class of 1905, have been 

 appointed assistant chemists to the station. 



Pennsylvania Station.— J. II. Parkins, of Fort Defiance, Virginia, has succeeded 

 K. E. Stallings as assistant in animal nutrition. 



Rhode island Station. — Hugh L. Barnes, a graduate of the Massachusetts Agricul- 

 tural College in the class of 1905, has been appointed assistant horticulturist, vice 

 M. A. Blake, who, as previously noted, has gone to the Massachusetts Agricultural 

 College. 



Graduate School of Agriculture. — It has been decided to hold the second session of 

 this Bchool in the summer of 1906 at the agricultural college of the University of 

 Illinois, under the auspices of the Association of American Agricultural Colleges and 

 Experiment stations and the University of Illinois. Details regarding the date of 

 the school and the courses to be offered will be announced later. 



Opening of Nova Scotia Agricultural College. — The Nova Scotia College of Agricul- 

 ture, located at Truro, opened its first session for regular students on October 17. 

 with an enrollment of twenty. Short courses in animal industry have been given at 

 the government farm in the two previous years. Applications for admission to the 

 short course, to begin January 30 next, have been received from over 100 intending 

 students. 



East of Scotland Agricultural College. — At a meeting of the board of directors of tin- 

 East of Scotland College of Agriculture, held at Edinburgh, the chairman of the 

 "central studies committee" reported that 58 students received benefit from the 

 central classes last season, as against 60 in the previous year. There was a large 

 increase in the number of students attending the evening classes, there being 170 as 

 compared with 43 the previous year. The "county work committee" repotted that 

 during the last year there were 12,917 students in attendance. In the systematic 

 classes there were (>4o students— 341 in dairying, 272 in forestry, and 32 in general 

 farming. Application is to be made to the Committee of Council on Education in 

 Scotland for a grant to the college, as there is great need of fund- for certain classes 

 of its work. 



Forestry at the University of Cambridge. — The syndicate appointed to consider the 

 desirability of establishing a course leading to a diploma in forestry at the university 

 has reported, according to a note in Nature, 1 1 I that a diploma in forestry should be 

 established; (2) that forestry should form the principal subject of the tinal exami- 

 nation for the diploma; I •"» | that the diploma should be granted only to graduates of 

 the university; (4i that candidates for the diploma should show evidence of having 

 resided for the equivalent of one year in some recognized center of instruction in 

 practical forestry. If these recommendations are approved by the senate, the syndi- 

 cate proposes to draw up and submit to that body detailed regulations for the scope 



