HISTORICAL NOTES. Vll 



HISTORICAL NOTES FOR 1906. 



THE ADAMS ACT. 



The Adams Act, which provides ultimately for the increased 

 endowment of all the Hatch Experiment Stations by $15,000 

 per annum, was approved by the President March 16, 1906. 

 The amount available for the fiscal year 1905-6 was $5000. The 

 amount for the current fiscal year is $7000. This fund can be 

 used only for "original investigations and experiments" and 

 is not available for the general maintenance of the Experiment 

 Station. 



At the April meeting of the Experiment Station Council, it 

 was decided to devote the Adams fund for the present to the 

 following lines of work, — studies upon the nutrition of man ; 

 investigations of orchard problems ; a study of plant diseases ; 

 and problems in breeding. 



CHANGES IN STAFF. 



As a result of the Adams Act, it became possible to change the 

 appoinments of certain Station officers that have had part Col- 

 lege and part Station work, so that their whole time can be 

 given to Experiment Station work. 



Mr. L. H. Merrill, formerly chemist to the Station and Pro- 

 fessor of Biological Chemsitry in the University, now devotes 

 his whole time to the Nutrition Investigations. 



Dr. W. M. Munson, formerly Professor of Horticulture in the 

 College of Agriculture, and Horticulturist to the Experiment 

 Station, has been appointed Pomologist to the Station and now 

 devotes his whole time to investigations relating to the orchard 

 interests of the State. 



Mr. W. J. Morse, B. S., University of Vermont, 1898, assist- 

 ant in botany at the Vermont Experiment Station since 1901. 

 has been appointed Vegetable Pathologist and assumed his 

 duties July I. His work is the study of the plant diseases of 

 Maine. 



Mr. L. I. Nurenburg resigned his position as assistant chem- 

 ist in the Nurtition Investigations and Miss J. C. Colcord, B. 

 S., in Chemistry, University of Maine 1906, has been appointed 

 his successor. 



