148 ELEVENTH ANNUAL REPORT 



With the co-operation of the postmasters the list of per- 

 sons in the state to whom bnlletins are sent has been revised 

 and enlarged, and it now includes nearly 7,000 names distrib- 

 uted among nearly all the postoffices in the state. 



Changes and additions to the staff have been as follows: 



APPOINTME^^TS 



Frederick S. Johnston, Associate Agriculturist. July. 

 Clarence AY. AVaid, Assistant Horticulturist. April. 

 Harry A. Clark, iVssistant Chemist. August. 

 Koscoe H. Shaw, Assistant Chemist. October. 

 Harry P. Eichardson, Assistant Agriculturist. October. 

 Frederick C. Keith, Clerk. August. 



EESIGNATIOXS 



Clement S. Morris, Clerk. August. 



Arthur Given, Assistant Chemist. September. 



Harry E. Barnard, Assistant Chemist. September. 



Elwin H. Forristall, Assistant Agriculturist. September. 



Mr. Given has entered the employ of the American Steel 

 and Wire Company at Worcester, Mass.; Mr. Barnard is assist- 

 ant in the research laboratory of Dr. Wolcott Gibbs, Newport, 

 E. I.; and Mr. Forristall is superintendent of the farm and 

 dairy of the Walker-Gordon Company of Boston. 



The following permanent improvements in buildings and 

 fields have been made: 



Storeroom in the basement of Nesmith Hall; birch floors 

 in the bacteriological laboratories ; division, by a plaster parti- 

 tion, of the large office in Nesmith Hall, into offices for the 

 departments of horticulture' and agriculture respectively; divi- 

 sion of the large forcing house into three equal apartments; 

 installation of Johnson's automatic system for regulating the 

 temperature of the greenhouses; straightening' and sloping the 

 banks of the brook running through the experiment field. 



Valuable additions have been made to the scientific appara- 

 tus, which include a Eobert's dynamometer with lever and 

 planimeter; a Bauscli and Lomb microscope with continental 



