191G.] PUBLIC DOCUMENT — No. 31. 3a 



REPORT OF THE DIRECTOR. 



WM. P. BROOKS. 



ADMINISTRATION. 

 Station Staff. 



Although some loss in experience and efficiency has been 

 occasioned during the past year by changes in staff due to 

 resignations, usually to accept positions offering better salaries, 

 these have affected only assistantships, and the year has, on 

 the whole, been marked by progress. No major positions have 

 been vacated, and Dr. George E. Stone, research plant physi- 

 ologist, who had been obliged to take leave of absence on 

 account of ill health, was able to take up investigational work 

 again in October. He is not to resume administrative charge 

 of the department of botany. 



The staff has been materially strengthened by additions and 

 transfers, the new men in a number of instances having under- 

 taken altogether new lines of investigation. The nature of the 

 changes which have taken place is shown by the following 

 statement: — 



Resignations. 

 Walter S. Frost, B.Sc, Assistant Chemist. 

 Norman H. Borden, B.Sc, Assistant Chemist. 

 Grace E. Gallond, Stenographer, Administration Department. 

 R. E. McLain, Observer. 



Appointments. 



Robert L. Coffin, Assistant, Agricultural Department. 



Beryl H. Paige, A.B., Assistant Animal Pathologist, Veterinary Depart- 

 ment. 



Arnold P. Sturteyant, A.B., Assistant Animal Pathologist, Veterinary 

 Department. 



Norman H. Borden, Assistant Chemist. 



Charles W. Davis, Assistant Chemist. 



R. P. Armstrong, M.Sc, Graduate Assistant, Pomology Department. 



Donald White, B.A., Graduate Assistant, Poultry Husbandry Department. 



