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SCIENCE 



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committee are Professor Pavy, of London, M. 

 Blondel, of Paris, as president and vice-presi- 

 dent; the latter is also secretary of the Inter- 

 national Medical Press Association, Dr. 

 Maragliano, of Genoa, Dr. Miiller, or Buda- 

 pest, and Dr. Waldeyer, of Berlin. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS 



The trustees of Princeton University have 

 accepted the gift of $500,000 of Mr. W. C. 

 Proctor, of Cincinnati, made on condition 

 that an equal sum be obtained for the grad- 

 uate school by May 1, 1910, and that the 

 school be not situated where the house of 

 the president now stands. 



Haverford College has received $100,000 

 to establish a fund for pensioning its pro- 

 fessors. 



The General Education Board has made a 

 conditional appropriation of $125,000 to Ohio 

 Wesleyan University, at Delaware, O. 



Mrs. Charles E. Perkins, of Burlington, 

 la., has given $30,000 to Harvard University, 

 to establish scholarships for students from 

 Iowa. 



Harvard University has received gifts 

 amounting to $6,600, to be used for the im- 

 mediate benefit of freshmen in Harvard Col- 

 lege, under the direction of the assistant dean. 



An additional sum of about $40,000 has 

 been collected in the Canton district for the 

 endowment of Hong Kong University. 



The laboratories of The Eice Institute, 

 at Houston, Texas, are being planned with 

 the assistance of Professor J. S. Ames, of 

 Baltimore; Professor E. G. Conklin, of 

 Princeton ; Professor T. W. Eichards, of Cam- 

 bridge, and Professor S. W. Stratton, of 

 Washington. 



When the former College of Medicine of 

 the University of Southern California became 

 the Los Angeles Medical Department of the 

 University of California, the former univer- 

 sity was left without a medical department. 

 Eecently, however, the College of Physicians 

 and Surgeons of Los Angeles was taken over 



and made an integral part of the University 

 of Southern California. 



Dr. G. B. Longstaff, of New College, Ox- 

 ford, has presented £2,400 as an additional en- 

 dovtonent for the Hope department of zoology. 



Mr. E. T. Havard has been appointed as- 

 sistant professor of mining and metallurgy at 

 the University of Wisconsin. Mr. Havard 

 is a well known metallurgical engineer, and a 

 frequent contributor to the technical press. 

 He is a graduate of the Eoyal School of 

 Mines, Freiberg, and has had his metallur- 

 gical experience in Germany, Chile, Montana 

 and elsewhere. 



The University of Pittsburgh has appointed 

 Frederick L. Bishop, '98, formerly professor 

 of physics at the Bradley Polytechnic Insti- 

 tute of Peoria, Ul., head of the department of 

 physics. 



Dr. G. a. Van Eynberk, associate professor 

 of physiology at Eome, has been appointed 

 professor of physiology at Amsterdam. 



Mr. Walter Brudenell Gill, formerly 

 scholar of Christ Church, Oxford, has been 

 elected to a fellowship at Merton College to 

 undertake research work in physics and to act 

 as a demonstrator. 



Dr. Karl Marbe, of Frankfort, has been ap- 

 pointed professor of philosophy at Wiirzburg. 



Dr. K. Coerens, of Leipzig, has been ap- 

 pointed professor of botany at Miinster. 



DISCUSSION AND CORRESPONDENCE 

 recommendations regarding the treatment 



OF GENERA without SPECIES, ETC. 



As an outcome of the recent discussion in 

 Science of the " Genera without Species " 

 question, the following suggestions are offered 

 for the consideration of zoologists and will be 

 transmitted to the International Zoological 

 Congress Committee on Nomenclature. They 

 are the result of recent correspondence be- 

 tween Professor T. D. A. Coekerell and the 

 writer, and have been formulated, and are 

 here presented, by his suggestion and on lines 

 proposed by him, with modifications that meet 



