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ter retains his position as a member of the 

 Peabody Education Board and chancellor of 

 the University of Nashville. 



Majoe Frederick S. Eussell, U.S.A., pro- 

 fessor of pathology in the Army Medical 

 School and curator of the Army Medical Mu- 

 seum, has been selected to succeed Dr. Joseph 

 J. Kinyoun as professor of pathology and bac- 

 teriology in George Washington University. 



Dr. Eoss Anderson has resigned as pro- 

 fessor of bacteriology and pathology in the 

 University of Utah, and has been succeeded 

 by Dr. Frank A. McC. Jenkin, of the Univer- 

 sity of Michigan. 



At Western Eeserve University, instructors 

 have been appointed as follovcs : John A. 

 Black, A.M., in chemistry; A. H. Ford, A.M., 

 in mathematics; Clinton E. Stauffer, in geol- 

 ogy; Davidson Black, M.D., in histology and 

 embryology. 



In the medical department of the Univer- 

 sity of Texas, Dr. Henry Hartman has been 

 appointed demonstrator of pathology and Dr. 

 E. E. Calloway, demonstrator of anatomy. 



E. H. Henderson, Ph.D. (Columbia), pro- 

 fessor of education and psychology at Adel- 

 phi College, Brooklyn, has been transferred to 

 the chair of philosophy. 



Dr. S. E. Wolbaoh has been appointed 

 director of the histological laboratory of Mc- 

 Gill University. 



At Queen's University, at Kingston, Ont., 

 Dr. W. O. Walker has been appointed associ- 

 ate professor. 



Dr. George A. Gibson, F.E.S., has been 

 appointed professor of mathematics at Glas- 

 govs^, in succession to Professor Jack, who has 

 resigned. 



Mr. T. Mather, F.E.S., has been appointed 

 professor of electrical engineering at the City 

 and Guilds Central Technical College in suc- 

 cession to the late Professor Aryton, F.E.S. 



Me. William Brown, B.Sc, lecturer in 

 electro-teclmology at the Eoyal College of 

 Science for Ireland, has been appointed, as 



from October 1, to the chair of physics in the 

 college, which will become vacant on that 

 date owing to the retirement of Professor W. 

 F. Barrett, F.E.S. , under the treasury regu- 

 lations as to age. 



DISCUSSION AWD CORRESPONDENCE 



PROGRESS OP THE INTERNATIONAL LANGUAGE 



ESPERANTO 



On account of the importance of an inter- 

 national language to science, American sci- 

 entists will undoubtedly be interested in the 

 following bits of information concerning the 

 international language Esperanto. This lan- 

 guage was endorsed by the Pan-American 

 Scientific Congress, which met in Chili, and 

 it was recommended that Esperanto be taught 

 generally in the schools. 



The International Medical Congress, which 

 met this summer at Buda Pesth, received ten 

 reports in Esperanto. 



The International Congress of Psychologists, 

 at its recent meeting in Geneva, admitted 

 Esperanto as an official language, placing it 

 on the same basis as German, French, Eng- 

 lish and Italian. Four addresses were made 

 in Esperanto at the general sessions. 



The report of the ninth International Con- 

 gress of Geography, recently held in Geneva, 

 has been printed (unofficially) in Esperanto. 



The eighth International Congress of Hy- 

 drology, Climatology and Physiotherapy, which 

 met in the city of Algiers in April, made 

 official use of Esperanto in its sessions. 



The Brazilian government recently pub- 

 lished in Esperanto a resume of the indus- 

 trial development of Brazil. As any one 

 who is familiar with one or two modern 

 languages and knows a little Latin can easily 

 acquire a reading knowledge of Esperanto in 

 a few weeks, it is suggested that any who are 

 interested in the above report might do well to 

 secure a copy of it. Many other minor notes 

 might be given, showing that Esperanto is 

 rapidly assuming the place which was intended 

 for it, namely, as a means of inter-communi- 

 cation between people who speak different 

 languages. 



I may add to the above notes that there is a 

 strong international organization of physi- 



