DIRECTOR'S REPORT FOR 1907." 
To the Honorable Board of Control of the New York Agricultural 
Experiment-Station: 
GENTLEMEN.— [ have the honor to submit for your considera- 
tion the report of this institution for the year 1907. In this 
report I have endeavored to set forth the important facts re- 
lating to the existing status of the Station, its policy, its needs 
for maintenance and progress, and a review of the principal 
facts and conclusions published in the bulletins of the year. 
ADMINISTRATION. 
STAFF, 
Several appointments have been made_to the ‘staff during 
1907. © ; 
John G. Grossenbacher, Pp. B., A. B., a graduate of the Uni- 
versity of Missouri and during the year 1906-7 a fellow in Har- 
vard University, was appointed as Assistant Botanist with es- 
pecial reference to plant pathology, to fill the position vacated 
in 1906 by Mr. H. J. Eustace. 
Maxwell J. Dorsey, B. S., a graduate of the Michigan Agricul- 
tural College and for the year 1906-7 an instructor in Horticul- 
ture at the University of Maine, was appointed Assistant Horti- 
culturist. 
The following gentlemen were elected to the position of As- 
sistant Chemist: 
Morgan P. Sweeney, A. M., and James T. Cusick, B. S., grad- 
uates of Colgate University, the former having pursued a year’s 
post-graduate work at the same institution in 1906-7; Otto 
McCreary, a graduate of the University of Michigan, and Percy 
W. Flint, a graduate of South Carolina College and at the 
time of his appointment an assistant chemist in the Pennsyl- 
vania State College Experiment Station. Mr. Flint has since 
resigned in order to take up further studies at the University of 
Illinois. 
*Reprint of Bulletin No. 295. 
