NOTES. 



Alabama Station. — J. G. Gilchrist, of the board of control, died recently at his 

 home in Hope Hull, Ala. His successor has not yet been selected. J. Q. Burton has 

 resigned as assistant chemist to accept a position in the Georgia State Laboratory, 

 and Charles W. Nixon has been appointed in his place. 



California University and Station. — The State legislature has provided an 

 annual appropriation of $250,000 for the university for the next two years, in addition 

 to its regular income. A department of irrigation has been established in the uni- 

 versity, and Elwood ISIead, irrigation expert of this Department, has been elected 

 professor of the institutions and practice of irrigation. Professor Mead will deliver 

 a course of lectures at the university, extending over six weeks, on the institutions 

 of irrigation. His new position will not necessitate his relinquishing the charge of 

 the irrigation investigations of the Department, as an assistant professor will be 

 provided. 



Connecticut State Station. — Clifford Langley resigned March 1 to accept a posi- 

 tion in New York City. He has been succeeded by I. F. Harris. 



Purdue University and Station. — The State legislature has appropriated $60,000 

 for a new agricultural building, with $10,000 a year for two years for maintenance 

 and equipment of the same. Ex-President Benjamin Harrison, who died March 13, 

 was a trustee of the university and station. Within the i^ast twenty-five months 

 President Smart and two of the most prominent trustees of Purdue have died. 



Iowa College and Station. ^ — Homer C. Price, of the University of Ohio, has 

 been elected to the chair of horticulture and forestry in the college and horticulturist 

 of the station. F. R. jMarshall has been appointed assistant in animal husbandry, to 

 succeed G. M. Rommel. 



Kansas Station. — A. S. Hitchcock, botanist of the college and station, has resigned 

 to accept the position of assistant agrostologist in this Department. He entered upon 

 his duties INIarch 1. 



North Dakota College. — The legislature has granted the college one-fifth mill 

 on all taxable property, thus doing away with the necessity for the uncertain bien- 

 nial appropriation. Plans are being prepared for the completion of the new chemical 

 lalioratory and for a science hall, to l^e built during the i)resent year, and also for a 

 new barn to replace the one recently destroyed by fire. 



Ohio Station. — Clarence W. Waid, B. S., recently assistant horticulturist at the 

 New Hampshire station, has been aiipointed to the same position at the Ohio station. 



South Dakot.a College and Station. — The State legislature has provided $40,000 

 for an engineering and physics building, and $10,000 for a building for work in plant 

 breeding. The fund for the general expenses of the college has been increased, and 

 a law passed affirming the ^Morrill and Hatch funds to the institution in perpetuit}\ 

 The appropriation of $1,000 for the experimental work at Highmore was continued. 

 The governor has appointed I. D. Aldrich, of Bigstone, and I. W. Goodner, of Pierre, 

 on the ])oard of regents of education (governing board of the college and station), to 

 succeed H. H. Blair and R. W. Haire. 



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