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and Harry F. Hall has been appointed to succeed him. Wm. F. Fiske lias resigned 

 the position of assistant entomologist to accept the position of assistant State ento- 

 mologist in Georgia. The legislature at its last session appropriated $30,000 for an 

 agricultural building for the college, which will contain lecture rooms, laljoratories, 

 and offices for the departments of agriculture and horticulture. 



New Mexico Station. — Herbert B. Holt, of LasCruces, has l)een appointed regent 

 in place of P. Moreno. 



Oki.ahoma Station. — The term of W. E. Bolton as member of the board of regents 

 having expired, H. C. R. BrodboU, of Ponca City, has beei . appointed. The legis- 

 lature has appropriated $8,000 for buildings. Of this sum, $6,500 will be expended 

 in the construction of a barn and farm fences, and the balance for many minor 

 improvements on existing buildings. By a recent decision of the court, a levy of 

 three-tenths mill for the year 1901 and four-tenths mill for the year 1902, estimated 

 to yield $46,000, is made available for the use of the college. The money will be 

 expended in the construction of an engineering building, and an addition to the 

 library building providing for an asseml)ly hall and quarters for the departments of 

 botany and entomology in the college and station. 



South Carolina Station. — L. A. Sease has been elected a member of the board 

 of trustees, vice W. H. Mauldin, deceased. 



Washington College and Station. — The last legislature appropriated $60,000 

 for maintenance, $1,000 for the purchase of live stock, $25,000 for building and 

 equipping a chemical laboratory, $10,000 for an armory, $1,500 for the library, $1,000 

 for greenhouses and insectary, $4,000 for additions to the central heating plant, 

 SoOO for museum cases, $1,500 for miscellaneous improvements, $10,000 for a water 

 system, $5,000 for a sewer system, a small amount for a ward for contagious diseases 

 in the veterinary hospital, and $10,000 for the substation at Puyallup, of which 

 $2,000 is for improvement. W. H. Heileman has resigned as assistant chemist of the 

 station to become a fiel<l agent in the Division of Soils of this Department. 



West Virginia University and Station. — President J. H. Raymond has resigned 

 his position and gone abroad for a time. On his return he will go to Chicago Uni- 

 versity as ass(jciate professor of sociology engaged in university extension work. 

 The last legislature repealed the laws under which the boards of all the State insti- 

 tutions, including the university and experiment station, had been appointed, and 

 passed new laws providing in the case of the latter institutions for the appointment 

 of a board composed of six persons of the party in power and three of the minority. 

 The Vroard of regents resigned after accepting the resignation of President Raymond. 

 The new l^oard is constituted as follows: E. M. Grant, of Morgantown; C. E. Haworth, 

 of Huntington; J. W. Hale, of Princeton; Chas. M. Babb, of Falls; J. R. Trotter, 

 of Bnckhannon; D. G. Gallagher, of Charleston; J. B. Finley, of Parkersburg; Chas. 

 D. Oldham, of Moundsville; W. J. W. Cowden, of AVheeling. A new fertilizer law 

 has ])een passed providing a tonnage tax of 40 cts., and requiring manufacturers to 

 make affidavit as to the source from which materials composing their fertilizers are 

 derived. A San Jo.se scale law, which is practically the same as the Ohio law, has 

 also been passed. 



PER.SONAL Mention. — The formal presentation of a bronze medal to Dr. S. M. 

 Babcock, by the State of Wisconsin, as a mark of appreciation of his services to 

 dairying in the invention of the milk test which bears his name, occurred March 28, 

 1901, at a joint session of the State senate and assembly. Governor La Follette pre- 

 sided, and in a brief address paid a graceful tribute to Dr. Babcock's skill as an 

 investigator and his generosity in giving his invention to the country. O. H. Fethers, 

 a member of the committee appointed to select the medal, made the presentation. 

 The medal bears the following inscription: "Recognizing the great value to the 

 people of this State and the whole world of the inventions and discoveries of Prof. 



