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which now has a medical department, is one 

 of the institutions supporting the project. 



We learn from the Journal of the American 

 Medical Association that two chairs in the Uni- 

 versity of Cincinnati College of Medicine, hon- 

 oring John D. Rockefeller and Andrew Car- 

 negie, donors of munificent sums to the medical 

 school, were founded at a meeting of the board 

 of directors on July 19. The professorship in 

 obstetrics will be known as the John D. Rocke- 

 feller Chair of Obstetrics and the professor- 

 ship in biochemistry as the Andrew Carnegie 

 Chair of Biochemistry. Dr. William Gillespie 

 holds the chair of obstetrics, and Albert Pres- 

 oott Mathews, Ph.D., is professor of biochem- 

 istry. 



Dr. Stephen Rushmore, associate professor 

 of gynecology, has been appointed dean of the 

 Tufts Medical School. The deanship has been 

 vacant since the resignation of Dr. Charles F. 

 Painter, one year ago. Dr. Rushmore is a 

 graduate and former instructor of the Johns 

 Hopkins Medical School. 



Dr. William Moulton Marston has been 

 appointed professor of experimental psychol- 

 ogy in the American University at Washing- 

 ton, D. C. 



Dr. R. W. Shufeldt, of Washington, has 

 accepted the position of lecturer on art anat- 

 omy and zoology on the faculty of the Research 

 University of that city. He will also give a 

 course of lectures at the Catholic University 

 of America on "The Essentials of Natural 

 Science." 



Dr. H. F. Pierce, who has been for three 

 and a half years in the department of pathol- 

 ogy at the University of Oxford, engaged in 

 i-eseareh for the British Medical Research 

 Council, has been appointed associate in phys- 

 iology at the College of Physicians and Sur- 

 geons, Columbia University. 



M. Peuvost has been appointed to the chair 

 of geology and mineralogy newly established 

 at the University of Lille. 



M. Hesse has been appointed professor of 

 zoology at the University of Dijon. 



In the University of London, Dr. J. C. 

 Drummond has been appointed to the univer- 



sity chair of biochemistry tenable at Univer- 

 sity College, and Professor Adrian Stokes to 

 the Sir William Dunn chair of pathology ten- 

 able at Gfuy's Hospital Medical School. 



DISCUSSION AND CORRESPOND- 

 ENCE 

 PASTEUR ON SCIENCE AND THE APPLICA- 

 TIONS OF SCIENCE 



In his address as president of the American 

 Association for the Advancement of Science, 

 Science, 54: 650, 1921, Dr. L. 0. Howard 

 makes the following quotation from the ad- 

 dress of Edwin Linton at the Baird Memorial 

 meeting in Washington in 1916 : 



As I look over the titles of theses for doc- 

 torate degrees in biology, however, knowing that 

 they must, in some fashion, reflect the activities 

 of our biological leaders, I am led to wonder if 

 the failure of science to influence legislation in 

 the interests of the people is not to be charged to 

 the propensity on the part of these leaders to 

 shun the practical. Is there a hierarchy in sci- 

 ence that frowns upon independence of thought 

 and action in her sanctuary? That can hardly 

 be. Let the heads of departments of biological 

 research in our universities tlien take heart, and 

 not be afraid to follow the lead of Pasteur, who 

 surely committed no violence upon science by 

 undertaking the solution of practical problems. 



This reminds me that, about fifty-one years 

 ago, Pasteur had some pretty definite things to 

 say about this matter. In the preface to the 

 fourth edition of "Fragments of Science," 

 December, 1871, Tyndall says: 



My friend M. Pasteur, of the Institute of 

 France, sent me some time ago, among other 

 important books and papers, a short essay 

 entitled "Quelques Reflexions sur la Science en 

 France." It consists of three articles, the fli'st 

 published in January, 1868; the second unpub- 

 lished, though laid before the Emperor Napo- 

 leon at the Tuilei-ies in March, 1868; and the 

 third communicated to a public journal last 

 March. All three articles are conceived in 

 the same spirit, and directed to the same end. 

 The last of them, entitled "Pourquoi le France 

 n'a pas trouve d'hommes superieurs au moment 

 du peril," contains many remarks which may 

 wisely be laid to heart in England. In our 

 eager pursuit of "practical" results, the high 



