November 12, liinn] 



SCIENCE 



673 



By the will of the late llrs. Gardiner Green 

 Hubbard the sum of $50,000 is bequeathed to 

 the Clark School for the deaf at Northampton, 

 Mass. 



The tenth industrial fellowship to be estab- 

 lished under the management of Professor 

 Robert Kennedy Duncan has been presented 

 to the University of Kansas. It is for the 

 investigation of the chemical treatment of 

 wood, and is of the value of $1,.500 annually 

 for two years. The donor is a furniture firm. 



Fire started last week in the basement of 

 Culver Hall, Dartmouth College, where the 

 laboratories of the chemistry department are 

 located. Considerable damage was done to 

 the scientific apparatus, and the building is 

 temporarily closed for repairs. 



The entire board of regents of the Univer- 

 sity of West Virginia will spend two weeks in 

 January studying the University of Wisconsin 

 in its organization, methods of instruction, 

 buildings and equipment. 



Dr. Ernst J. Berg, of the General Electrical 

 Company, has been appointed head of the 

 department of electrical engineering at the 

 University of Illinois. In this position he 

 succeeds Professor Morgan Brooks, who is at 

 present abroad, and who will return to take up 

 his duties as professor in the department. 



The department of physics and electrical 

 engineering at the Iowa State College has been 

 divided into two distinct departments. Pro- 

 fessor L. B. Spinney will continue the head of 

 the department of physics, and Professor F. A. 

 Fish has been appointed the head of the elec- 

 trical engineering department. A new build- 

 ing has been completed for the work of the 

 electrical engineering department. 



The departments of geology and geography 

 at Cornell University have been reorganized 

 and divided into five coordinate departments. 

 These are geology, in charge of Professor 

 Henry S. Williams, who is also director of 

 the museum ; physical geography, in charge of 

 Professor Ralph S. Tarr; stratigraphic geol- 

 ogy, in charge of Professor Gilbert D. Harris ; 

 economic geology, in charge of Professor 

 Heinrich Ries, and mineralogy and petrog- 



raphy, in charge of Professor A. C. Gill. 

 Professor Gill will also be chairman of the 

 five departments. 



Mr. Ralph Hoagland has been elected pro- 

 fessor of soils at the University of Minnesota. 



Dr. W. W. Dimock has been appointed asso- 

 ciate professor of pathology in the veterinary 

 department of the Iowa State University and 

 pathologist to the experiment station. For the 

 last three years Dr. Dimock has been in the 

 employment of the Cuban government. 



Recent appointments at the New Hamp- 

 shire College of Agriculture and the Mechanic 

 Arts are as follows: T. S. Arkell (B.S., On- 

 tario '07), assistant professor of animal hus- 

 bandry; Frank C. Moore (A.B., Dartmouth 

 '02) , assistant professor of mathematics ; T. G. 

 Bunting (B.S., Ontario '07), instructor in 

 horticulture; L. A. Pratt (B.S., New Hamp- 

 shire '09), instructor in chemistry; W. C. 

 O'Kane (A.B. and A.M., Ohio State), in- 

 structor in entomology. 



The following new appointments have been 

 made in the chemical department of the Uni- 

 versity of Illinois for the current year: 

 Instructors: R. H. Jesse, Ph.D., Harvard Uni- 

 versity, L. L. Burgess, Ph.D., Harvard Uni- 

 versity, Ellen S. McCarthey, Ph.D., Cornell 

 University; Research Assistant: L. P. Kyria- 

 kides, Sc.D., University of Michigan; Assis- 

 tants: R. H. Stevens, M.S., University of 

 Chicago, L. F. Nickell, B.S., University of 

 Illinois; Graduate Assistants: W. T. Mur- 

 dock, R. W. Savidge, L. M. Burghardt, F. W. 

 Kressman, C. E. Millar, J. W. Marden, C. J. 

 Baker, R. S. Potter; Fellows: A. W. Hom- 

 berger, C. E. Burke. 



Dr. Alfred Grcnd, of Berlin, has been ap- 

 pointed professor of geography, in the Ger- 

 man university of Prague, to succeed Pro- 

 fessor Olenz, who has retired. 



DISCUSSION AND CORRESPONDENCE 



AUTONOMY FOR THE UNIVERSITY? 

 America has not yet contributed her share to 

 scholarly creation, and the fault lies in part at 

 the doors of our universities. They do not strive 

 enough in the impressionable years of early man- 

 hood to stimulate intellectual appetite and ambi- 



