July 12, 1912] 



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Dr. John Zeleny, professor of physics, has 

 been appointed acting dean of the Graduate 

 School for the coming year, at the University 

 of Minnesota. 



The board of trustees of Colgate University 

 has created a new office, that of vice-president 

 of the university, and has elected Dr. Mel- 

 bourne Stuart Eead to the office. Dr. Eead 

 is professor of psychology and has been secre- 

 tary of the university for several years. 



Mr. F. E. Maeshall, now of the Ohio State 

 University, has accepted the chair of agricul- 

 tural industries in the University of Cali- 

 fornia. Among appointments to agricultural 

 instruetorships are those of James Koeber, 

 from Oregon Agricultural College, in farm 

 mechanics, and William H. Arnold, in chem- 

 istry and botany, both men at the university 

 farm; W. F. Gericke, from Iowa State College 

 of Agriculture, and Paul S. Burgess, from 

 Illinois, in soils, and Ealph H. Taylor, a Uni- 

 versity of California graduate, in horticulture, 

 Giovanni Barovetto and A. C. Way are ap- 

 pointed to aid in the university's investiga- 

 tions for improving methods in grape growing, 

 wine-making and the raisin industry; J. D. 

 Denny to aid in improving the varieties of 

 wheat, barley and other cereals grown in Cali- 

 fornia; E. C. d'Erlach to help with the in- 

 spection of commercial fertilizers, and Mere- 

 dith E. Miller, to aid in similar inspection of 

 insecticides. Walter W. Bonus has been ap- 

 pointed plant physiologist at the Eiverside 

 Citrus Experiment Station. Two promotions 

 are of William B. Herms to be assistant pro- 

 fessor of applied parasitology, and W. G. 

 Hummel to be assistant professor of agricul- 

 tural education. 



The New York State College of Forestry at 

 Syracuse University announces the personnel 

 of its staii in the work of instruction, investi- 

 gation and demonstration as follows: Dean 

 Hugh P. Baker, M.F. (Tale, '04), D.CEc. 

 (Munich, '10), is director of the college and 

 professor of silviculture. Dean Baker as- 

 sumed his duties on April 1, coming from the 

 directorship of the department of forestry at 

 Pennsylvania State College. Frank F. Moon, 



B.A. (Amherst, '01), M.F. (Yale, '09), resigns 

 an associate professorship of forestry at 

 Massachusetts Agricultural College to become 

 professor of forest engineering at Syracuse. 

 Earlier, Professor Moon was forester of High- 

 lands of Hudson Forest Eeservation for the 

 New York State Forest, Fish and Game Com- 

 mission. Philip T. Collidge, graduate of Har- 

 vard College and of Harvard Forest School, 

 becomes professor of forestry and director of 

 the ranger school, which will be a part of the 

 College of Forestry operating on recently ac- 

 quired lands at Wanakena on Cranberry Lake. 

 Professor Collidge resigns the directorship of 

 the Colorado College of Forestry at Colo- 

 rado Springs and of the Eanger School at 

 Woodland Park, Colo., to take up this work. 

 Nelson C. Brown, B.A. (Yale, '06), M.F. 

 ('08), comes after an extended experience in 

 the forest service and as assistant professor of 

 forestry in Iowa State College to be assistant 

 professor of forest utilization. John W. 

 Stephen, B.A. (Michigan) and M.F. ('07), 

 becomes assistant professor of silviculture, re- 

 signing for this purpose his relation as state 

 forester with the New York State Conserva- 

 tion Commission. Edwin F. McCarthy, B.Sc. 

 and M.F. (Michigan, '11), has served during 

 the past year and continues as assistant pro- 

 fessor of forestry, having especially the work 

 in forest technology. 



At the University of Illinois, Dr. Lotus D, 

 Kaufman, at present supervisor of the train- 

 ing school of the Eastern Illinois Normal 

 School at Charleston, has been appointed pro- 

 fessor of education, and Dr. W. E. Burge, now 

 of the Johns Hopkins University, assistant 

 professor of physiology. 



Dr. Arthur I. Kendall, of the department 

 of preventive medicine and hygiene. Harvard 

 Medical School, has been appointed professor 

 of bacteriology at Northwestern University. 

 Dr. Harold L. Amoss, of the same department, 

 has been appointed assistant in bacteriology 

 and pathology at the Eockefeller Institute. 



Dr. David Vance Guthrie has been pro- 

 moted to be professor of physics and astron- 

 omy at the Louisiana State University. 



