io8 SCIENCE PROGRESS 



Dentistry of the University of Rochester, N.Y., from the daughters of the late 

 Henry A. Strong of that city. 



A rather remarkable gift is that of $500,000 to the dermatological research 

 laboratories of the University of Pennsylvania for medical research. This 

 represents the profits from the sale, during the war, of the drug arsphenamine 

 made by three members of the staff of the laboratory. Dr. F. Schamberg, 

 Dr. A. Kolner, and Prof. G. M. Raiziss. 



The Government of Panama has assigned $10,000,000 for the erection 

 of an Institute of Tropical Diseases as a memorial to the late Surgeon-General 

 Gorgas. 



The Rockefeller Foundation, which is now assisting in an anti-tuberculosis 

 campaign in 38 of the 87 departments of France, has given up to that country 

 the complete control of the elaborate anti-tuberculosis organisation established 

 in Eure-et-Loir at a cost of 4,000,000 francs. It includes 24 dispensaries, 

 4 complete isolation services, a departmental sanatorium, and a laboratory. 

 It is to serve as a model for similar organisations which the French Govern- 

 ment proposes to establish throughout the country. 



Science (Feb. 4, 192 1) states that M. Painleve, Professor of Mathematics 

 at Paris and former Prime Minister, has returned from China, where he had been 

 on a mission concerning Chinese universities and railways. He has obtained 

 a promise from the Chinese Government of an annual grant of 100,000 

 francs for an Institute of Higher Studies in Chinese at Paris. The 

 Chinese Government has also agreed to the creation in one of the Chinese 

 universities of an affiliated branch of the University of Paris, and it will 

 devote to this purpose annually a sum of 500,000 francs on condition that 

 the French Government gives the same amount. The Chinese President has 

 also promised to have reproduced the collection of four great classics which 

 contain the essence of Chinese civilisation and to present three copies to 

 France. These volumes contain altogether not less than 5,000,000 pages. 



The trustees of the Captain Scott Memorial Fund have decided to establish 

 a Polar Research Institute in connection with the new department of Geo- 

 graphy in the University of Cambridge. The Institute is to serve as a depo- 

 sitory for the manuscripts and log-books of polar expeditions and as a place 

 where the results of such expeditions can be worked out. It is hoped that it 

 may be possible later on to provide a library, map-room, and museum of polar 

 gear and equipment ; but the funds which the trustees have allotted will suffice 

 only to found the institute. 



The New Anatomy Department at University College is well under way 

 towards the beginning of construction. Plans of the buildings are complete, 

 and, from what we have seen of them, seem to be splendidly arranged. The 

 old hotels on the future site at Gower Street have already been pulled down 

 and the ground cleared. Alumni of University College all the world over will 

 feel glad to know that their college is to possess the most complete and largest 

 Department of Anatomy in the British Empire. 



Prof. J. P. Hill, F.R.S., has been elected to the Chair of Embryology, 

 which will be tenable in the new department. This step will ensure the 

 adequate teaching of the subject, as well as a head who will be able to direct 

 efficiently many researches in mammalian embryology. 



We find ourselves in complete agreement with the strictures passed by 

 Nature (April 21) concerning the very inadequate provision made by the 

 Government in the Civil Service Estimates for university education. The 

 annual grant is increased by only ;^5oo,ooo, of which ;^io6,o3o goes to institu- 

 tions which have hitherto received no grant from this source. There is, of 

 course, the plea of an impoverished nation and of the economy imposed by 

 the " anti-waste" campaign in the daily press; but the influence of these 

 circumstances is not very conspicuous in the very generous salaries paid to 

 civil servants, the utter waste of the ten-million-pound bribe to the miners. 



