HISTORICAL NOTES. Vlt 



Changes in Station Council. 



The term of office of Hon. A. J. Durgin as Trustee of the 

 University of Maine expired in April, 1907. Hon. Samuel W. 

 Gould of Skowhegan, Trustee to the University was appointed 

 in June to be a member of the Station Council in Mr. Durgin's 

 stead. . • 



As noted below, Professor Munson resigned June 30 and 

 Professor Gowell resigned December 31 from the Experiment 

 Station staff and from those dates they were no longer members 

 of the Station Council. 



Dr. Raymond Pearl was made a member of the Council dating 

 from July 1, 1907. 



Changes in the Station Staee. 



Professor Welton M. Munson, Ph. D., resigned June 30 from 

 the Experiment Station as Pomologist to accept a somewhat 

 similar position at the West Virginia Experiment Station and 

 University. Dr. Munson had been connected with the Maine 

 Experiment Station since 1891 and had becomse closely identi- 

 fied with the horticultural interests and particularly the or- 

 charding of Maine. 



Professor Gilbert M. Gowell resigned from the teaching force 

 of the University of Maine June 30, 1907, and from the Experi- 

 ment Station December 31, 1907. Prof. Gowell has long been 

 associated with the agriculture of the University and was one 

 of the first appointments to the Experiment Station staff, being 

 superintendent of field and feeding experiments to the Maine 

 Fertilizer Control and Agricultural Experiment Station which 

 was established in 1885. In the reorganization of the Station, 

 for quite a number of years, Prof. Gowell was connected entirely 

 with the University but in 1896 he became Agriculturist to the 

 Station. During the last ten years his work at the Station has 

 been largely along the lines of-poultry investigations, for which 

 work he is best and widely known. During the past three years, 

 Prof. Gowell has developed a very extensive and successful 

 poultry plant at Orono to which he now intends to devote his 

 whole attention. 



As stated last year, the Experiment Station Council had 

 decided to very materially develop breeding investigations at the 



