OCTOBEB 1, 1909] 



SCIENCE 



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The Electrical World states that according 

 to M. P. Bellile, a French naval surgeon on 

 board the Descartes, which has been engaged 

 in the campaign in Morocco, the members of 

 the ship's company who were employed in 

 wireless telegraph duty developed various af- 

 fections in consequence of the action of the 

 Hertzian waves. Most commonly the telegra- 

 phists complained of their eyes, a slight con- 

 junctivitis similar to that occurring among 

 those who work with arc lamps being found. 

 Although this of itself was not generally seri- 

 ous, in one case where the attacks recurred 

 again and again, keratitis was produced which 

 resulted in a leukoma of the right cornea and 

 consequent impairment of vision. In order to 

 protect the eyes from the ultra-violet rays of 

 electric emanation, it was recommended that 

 yellow or orange glasses should be worn. Not 

 only were the eyes of the operators affected, 

 but two cases of eczema — one of the wrist and 

 one of the eyelid, both very difficult to cure — 

 were seen. One of the officials who had been 

 employed for several years in wireless teleg- 

 raphy suffered from a painful palpitation of 

 the heart, which came on after working for 

 any length of time at the instruments for 

 sending messages. This man was quite free 

 from any organic lesion of the heart. M. 

 Bellile is disposed to think that a good many 

 of the cases of nervousness and neurasthenia, 

 which seem now to be getting rather co m mon 

 among naval men, may be due to the work 

 which is being done in wireless telegraphy. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS 



It is proposed to form a University of 

 Detroit by amalgamation of the law and med- 

 ical colleges already existing in the city. 



Mrs. Eussell Sage has given $50,000 to 

 Syracuse University for a Teachers College. 



The installation of Dr. A. Lawrence Lowell 

 as president of Harvard University will take 

 place on the morning of October 6. 



Dr. Edmund C. Sanford, A.B. (California, 

 '83), Ph.D. (Johns Hopkins, '88), professor of 

 experimental psychology in Clark University, 

 has been elected president of Clark College 



to succeed the late Carroll D. Wright. Dr. 

 James F. Porter, of the department of psy- 

 chology, has been appointed acting dean of the 

 college in the place of Professor Eufus C. 

 Bentley, who has resigned. 



Professor Herbert J. Webber, wiU act as 

 director of the Agricultural College of Cornell 

 University during the absence this year of the 

 director, Professor L. H. Bailey. 



Mr. H. I. Stoek, for many years editor of 

 Mines and Minerals, has been appointed pro- 

 fessor of mining engineering at the University 

 of Blinois. He has recently been serving as 

 an expert of the United States Geological 

 Survey in charge of investigations of waste in 

 mining anthracite. During the past three 

 years he has lectured on mining at Cornell 

 University, Pennsylvania State College, Shef- 

 field Scientific School and Brooklyn Poly- 

 technic Institute. 



Mr. W. E. Wickenden, of the University of 

 Wisconsin, has been appointed assistant pro- 

 fessor of electrical engineering at the Massa- 

 chusetts Institute of Technology, to assume 

 the duties vacated by Professor George C. 

 Shaad, who has gone to take charge of the 

 department at the University of Kansas. 



The following changes have been made in 

 the science departments at the University of 

 Maine for the present year : Ralph H. McKee, 

 Ph.D. (Chicago), professor of chemistry; 

 Charles W. Easley, Ph.D. (Clark), associate 

 professor of chemistry; Benjamin E. Kraybill, 

 B.S. (Franklin & Marshall), instructor in 

 chemistry; G. A. Scott, B.S. (Wisconsin), in- 

 structor in physics; E. C. Drew, B.S. (Ver- 

 mont), tutor in physics; W. E. Wilbur, B.S. 

 (Maine), S. D. Chambers, B.S. (Baldwin), 

 and T. L. Hamlin, M.A. (Missouri), instruct- 

 ors in mathematics; G. E. Simmons, M.S. 

 (Ohio State University), and M. E. Sher- 

 win, M.S. (Missouri), assistant professors of 

 agronomy; W. R. Palmer, B.S. (Oregon Agri- 

 cultural College), instructor in horticulture; 

 J. R. Dice, B.S. (Michigan Agricultural Col- 

 lege), instructor in animal industry; Laura 

 Comstock, assistant professor of domestic sci- 

 ence; N. H. Mayo, B.S. (Maine), and W. E. 

 Connor, B.S. (Maine), tutors in civil engi- 



