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tant at Havana. A committee on an ecolog- 

 ical survey appointed by the Illinois Academy 

 of Science, of which Dr. Forbes is chairman, 

 is associated with this work in an advisory 

 ■capacity, and the members of the committee 

 will share in its investigations. The station 

 is equipped with a floating laboratory, a gaso- 

 line launch and the various apparatus' neces- 

 sary for aquatic collection and investigation. 

 It is the intention of the management to 

 open the station to biological and ecological 

 investigators during the summer of 1910. 



The third meeting of the permanent com- 

 mission of the International Seismological 

 Association will take place August 30 to Sep- 

 tember 4, at Zermatt, Switzerland. 



Through the kindness of Professor Lam- 

 brecht and Dr. Davies, of the University of 

 Leipzig, arrangements have been made for a 

 special room for Americans who visit the 

 celebration at the 500th anniversary of the 

 founding of Leipzig University. This room is 

 at the Goldner Bar, Universitat Strasse 11. 

 Americans should register at this place and 

 they will here be given any information that 

 they need for the celebration. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS 

 Among gifts to Tale University announced 

 at the recent commencement were $100,000 to 

 establish a John Sloane memorial fund for the 

 increase of salaries and two gifts of $20,000 

 each towards the establishment of a professor- 

 ship of education. It is further announced 

 that a compromise has been effected in the 

 case of the will of Frederick 0. Hewitt, by 

 which the university will receive $400,000. 



The Drapers' Company have renewed their 

 grant of £2,000 (£400 a year for five years) 

 to the department of applied mathematics in 

 London University under Professor Karl Pear- 

 son, thus enabling the research work in statis- 

 tics and in the biometric laboratory to be con- 

 tinued and extended. The Mercers' Company 

 have made a grant of £500 to the department 

 of physiology. 



The new Institute of Physiology at Univer- 

 sity College, London, was opened on June 17 

 by Mr. Haldane, the secretary of state for war. 



Dr. Henry B. Ward, of the University of 

 Nebraska, has accepted a professorship of zool- 

 ogy in the University of Illinois. 



Dr. Eaymond H. Stetson, of Beloit College, 

 has been appointed professor of psychology at 

 Oberlin College. 



Dr. Frank N. Freeman, who for the past 

 year has held the traveling fellowship in phil- 

 osophy and psychology from Tale University, 

 has been appointed instructor in educational 

 psychology in the University of Chicago. 



Mr. Clinton E. Stauffer, A.M. (Ohio 

 State) has been appointed instructor in geol- 

 ogy in Western Reserve University. 



Professor Charles E. Decker, now in the 

 graduate school of the University of Chicago, 

 has been appointed instructor in biology and 

 geology at Allegheny College for the coming 

 year. 



Appointments and promotions in the St. 

 Louis University School of Medicine are an- 

 nounced as follows: Dr. M. F. Engman has 

 been made professor of dermatology in place 

 of Dr. John H. Duncan, resigned. Drs. J. W. 

 Marchildon, J. J. Honwink and E. D. Carman 

 have been advanced from instructors to assis- 

 tant professors of bacteriology, dermatology 

 and " roentgenology," respectively. 



DISCUSSION AND CORRESPONDENCE 

 "the daylight saving bill" 



To the Editor of Science : The reference to 

 the bill in Science for June 18, 1909, page 

 973, in the interesting letter of " T. C. M." 

 is not quite accurate. The bill was intro- 

 duced in the Indiana legislature and pro- 

 vided that the ratio of the circumference to 

 the diameter of the circle should be exactly 

 three to one. It was referred to " The Com- 

 mittee on Swamp Lands." The introducer of 

 the bill evidently had never heard of ir, and if 

 he had, would probably have considered it a 

 symbol of traditional New England break- 

 fast dish. 



The published report of the hearings be- 

 fore the special committee of parliament on 

 the " Daylight Saving Bill," from which the 



