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added value to the publications of her department, and will 

 continue to add value as her work is published in years to come. 

 Miss Anna M. Wallace of Smith College has been appointed 

 curator. 



Mr. Charles R. Green resigned as station librarian in August. 

 For thirteen years Mr. Green has served in the dual position of 

 librarian for the College and for the Experiment Station. His 

 zeal in the building up of a real scientific library was unflagging. 

 His never-failing courtesy in helping our men to obtain litera- 

 ture on various subjects made his services greatly appreciated 

 and his loss to the station staflF all the more keenly felt. Dr. 

 Henry S. Green has been appointed librarian. 



On Aug. 10, 1921, Dr. George H. Chapman, who had been 

 in the service of the institution since 1907, resigned his position 

 as research professor of botany to take up research work with 

 the newly organized Connecticut Valley Tobacco Improvement 

 Association. Dr. Chapman's loss is much to be regretted. 

 He has had wide experience in his subject-matter, and par- 

 ticularly as a specialist on certain problems connected with the 

 production of tobacco. He had several times visited the 

 tobacco sections of Porto Rico as expert in the employ of 

 large tobacco companies, and in this and other ways had 

 fitted himself to render expert service to this relatively im- 

 portant Massachusetts industry. Despite the loss to the in- 

 stitution incurred by his resignation, it is gratifying to know 

 that Dr. Chapman will continue in research work, although 

 under different auspices. The position has not been filled. 



Under date of Jan. 21, 1921, Mr. C. L. Beals, assistant 

 research professor of chemistry, asked for a year's leave of 

 absence without pay, in order to enter upon research work in 

 preservation of milk by-products for the Sheffield Farms 

 Company of Hobart, New York. Toward the end of the year 

 Mr. Beals signified his intention of resigning, thus withdrawing 

 permanently from the work of the station. It is with regret 

 that we have felt obliged to recommend that the resignation be 

 accepted, for Mr. Beals had shown great promise as an in- 

 vestigator. Here again, however, the apprenticeship served by 

 Mr. Beals in the station has fitted him for an important 

 research position, — a position in which success will ultimately 

 react to the benefit of dairy farmers the country over. The 



