September 17, IflOP] 



SCIENCE 



365 



Dr. M. J. M. Hill, F.K.S., professor of 

 mathematics in the University College, has 

 been elected vice-chancellor of the University 

 of London for 1909-10. 



Dr. Walter Murray, of the University of 

 Dalhousie, Halifax, has been elected president 

 of the new University of Saskatchewan, estab- 

 lished at Saskatoon. 



Dr. Allen J. Smith, professor of pathology, 

 has been appointed dean of the medical de- 

 partment of the University of Pennsylvania, 

 to succeed Dr. Charles H. Frazer. 



The Journal of the American Medical As- 

 sociation states that Dr. H. McE. Knower, of 

 the anatomical department of the Johns Hop- 

 kins University, has accepted a call to the 

 University of Toronto, and Dr. Robert Ketzer, 

 of the same department, a call to the Univer- 

 sity of Minnesota. 



Dr. John C. Shedd has accepted the chair 

 of physics in Olivet College. 



Dr. Irving King, who has been assistant 

 professor in education at the University of 

 Michigan for the past two years, has been 

 called to the department of education in the 

 State University of Iowa. 



Messrs. W. F. Steve and Paul Dike have 

 been appointed instructors in physics, and 

 Messrs. Rufus A. Barnes and James Curry 

 have been appointed instructors in chemistry 

 in the University of Wisconsin. 



The following promotions and appoint- 

 ments have been made at Northwestern Uni- 

 versity: Dr. David Raymond Curtiss has been 

 advanced from an associate professorship in 

 mathematics to a full professorship. Dr. 

 Robert R. Tatnall from associate professor of 

 physics to professor of physics ; Robert E. Wil- 

 son from instructor in mathematics to as- 

 sistant professor in mathematics; Dr. Eugene 

 H. Harper from instructor in zoology to as- 

 sistant professor of zoology ; Dr. James Cad- 

 dell Morehead from instructor in mathematics 

 to assistant professor of mathematics; Dr. 

 Robert H. Gault has been appointed instructor 

 in psychology ; Dr. Charles S. Mead instructor 

 in zoology, and Dr. Leigh Hunt Pennington 

 instructor in botany. 



Dr. Thomas H. Bryce, lecturer in anatomy 

 in the University of Glasgow, has been ap- 

 pointed to be regius professor of anatomy in 

 succession to Professor John Cleland. 



Dr. John Marnoch, lecturer on clinical 

 surgery at the Aberdeen Royal Infirmary, has 

 been appointed regius professor of surgery in 

 the LTniversity of Aberdeen in succession to 

 Professor Alexander Ogston. 



M. BoREL has been appointed professor of the 

 theory of functions at the University of Paris. 



DISCUSSION AND CORRESPONDENCE 

 genera without species. 



In his communication on this subject pub- 

 lished recently in Science,' Mr. Caudell ren- 

 ders it clear that my reference" to certain 

 correspondents cited by Professor Cockerell in 

 a previous issue of Science' as being either 

 ignorant or inexperienced in some of the more 

 difficult questions in nomenclature was not 

 without warrant, at least in the case of one of 

 the persons mentioned by Professor Cockerell. 

 Inasmuch as Mr. Caudell, in his reply to my 

 communication, has misrepresented (appar- 

 ently unconsciously) my position in the case, 

 I beg space for a few words more on the gen- 

 eral subject of genera without species and 

 other matters incidental thereto. 



The logical inference from the general tenor 

 of his article is that I am opposed to the 

 International Code of Nomenclature, and 

 would allow personal opinion to intervene in 

 opposition to its rulings. On the contrary, 

 I have been not only loyal to the International 

 Code in all its bearings but have, in various 

 papers published during the last two years, 

 strenuously advocated its acceptance as the 

 definitive code, in so far as its rulings meet 

 the cases that are constantly arising in zoolog- 

 ical nomenclature. Furthermore, where cases 

 arise that are not clearly covered by the code 

 I have urged that such cases be referred to the 

 Nomenclature Committee of the International 



"Vol. XXX., pp. 210, 211, August 13, 1909. 

 'Science, Vol. XXIX., pp. 934-936, June II. 

 1909. 

 'Vol. XXIX., pp. 813, 814, May 21, 1909. 



