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shoveled into the bag for export. For further 

 information those interested may address the 

 editor of Tropical Life, 112 Fenchurch 

 street, E. C. London. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS 



The College of Agricultiire of the Univer- 

 sity of the Philippines, situated at Los Bancs, 

 opened on June 14, with about sixty students. 

 E. B. Copeland is dean and professor in bot- 

 any ; Harold Cuzner, professor of agronomy ; 

 Edgar M. Ledyard, professor of zoology, and 

 S. B. Durham, professor of animal husbandry. 

 The univeraity opened a school of fine arts in 

 Manila at the same time; it has no entrance 

 requirements, and its registration is above 400. 

 A college of veterinary science, for high 

 school graduates was announced to open at 

 the same time but there was only one appli- 

 cant for admLssion. The secretary of public 

 instruction. Judge Newton W. Gilbert, is act- 

 ing president of the university. 



Professor K. E. Guthe, of the University 

 of Iowa, has accepted a call as professor of 

 physics to the University of Michigan. 



Dr. Burton E. LmNCSTON, staff member, 

 Department of Botanical Eesearch of the Car- 

 negie Institution of Washington, has accepted 

 an appointment as professor of plant physiol- 

 ogy in the Johns Hopkins University. He will 

 assume his new duties with the opening of the 

 next academic year. 



It is stated in the daily papers that Pro- 

 fessor W. J. v. Osterhout, of the department 

 of botany of the University of California, has 

 accepted a call to Harvard University. 



Mr. William T. Horne has resigned his 

 position as plant pathologist of the Cuban 

 Agricultural Experiment Station to become 

 assistant professor of plant pathology in the 

 University of California. 



Mrs. Ella Flagg Young, principal of the 

 Chicago Normal School since 1905 and previ- 

 ously professor of education in the University 

 of Chicago, has been elected superintendent 

 of Chicago's public school system. 



Joseph S. Chamberlain, Ph.D. (Johns Hop- 

 kins), chief of the laboratory of Cattle Food 



and Grain Investigations of the Bureau of 

 Chemistry, U. S. Department of Agriculture, 

 has been appointed associate professor of chem. 

 istry in the Massachusetts Agricultural Col- 

 lege. 



Mr. a. G. Christie, formerly in the steam- 

 turbine departments of the Westinghouse and 

 Allis-Chalmers companies, has been appointed 

 assistant professor of steam engineering at 

 the University of Wisconsin. 



Professor L. P. Dickinson, of the electrical 

 engineering department of Lafayette College, 

 has been appointed professor of electrical engi- 

 neering at Rhode Island State College to suc- 

 ceed Professor Gilbert Tolman, who recently 

 resigned to accept a chair at Colby College. 



Dr. Robert F. Sheehan has been appointed 

 professor of hygiene at the University of 

 Buffalo to succeed Dr. Henry R. Hopkins, who 

 has been appointed emeritus professor of 

 hygiene. Dr. Herbert Hill has resigned as 

 professor of chemistry, toxicology and physics. 



DISCUSSION AND CORRESPONDENCE 



THE DUTY OF PUBLISHING 



The reason for all scientific investigation, 

 that which not only justifies but even demands 

 it, is the help its results, when known, will be 

 to the human race through the fuller knowl- 

 edge men will then have of the laws of the 

 universe in which they are placed and from 

 which they can not escape. 



From this it follows that no investigation 

 need be made — the labor and the expense of it 

 are to no purpose — unless the results are to be 

 published, that is, brought to the attention of 

 those, preferably as many as possible, who are 

 most likely to use this information in a man- 

 ner helpful to themselves and to the rest of 

 the world. 



How much better it would have been if 

 Willard Gibbs, for instance, instead of print- 

 ing accounts of his investigations in a journal 

 of most limited circulation, had published 

 where the whole scientific world could have 

 seen them. For nearly a generation his re- 

 markable discoveries were of no honor either 

 to himself or to the institution with which he 



