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remains a matter for future consideration for 

 the joint council and the institutions concerned. 

 The medical correspondent of the London 

 Times writes as follows: "It is worth noting 

 that whereas the death rate in 1851-1860 was 

 3,841 per million (all forms of tuherculosis), 

 it was only 1,352 per million in 1913. During 

 the war there was an increase, but in 1919 a 

 sharp fall oceun-ed to a figure lower than any 

 previously recorded. This fall continued in 

 1920; in 1921, taking into consideration the 

 increase of population, the position was again 

 satisfactory, though a slight increase over 1920 

 was recorded. This slight increase was almost 

 negligible in males (from 998 to 1,002 per 

 million), but in females it was more appre- 

 ciable (756 to 777 per million). Both the 

 number of deaths and the death rates for non- 

 pulmonary tuberculosis were lower in 1921 

 than in 1920. Sir George Newman asks 

 whether this slight check to the fall in the mor- 

 tality of pulmonary tuberculosis bears any 

 relation to the large amount of unemployment 

 in 1920. It may well do so, for tuberculosis 

 flourishes in conditions of malnutrition and 

 poverty. In Germany, for example, the tuber- 

 culosis death rate increased fix)m 1914 on- 

 wards until, in 1916, it was double the pre-war 

 rate. In 1917 it was still higher. In 1918 

 there were 40,000 more deaths in Germany 

 from tuberculosis than in 1913. A similar state 

 of matters has been reported from Poland, 

 where in 1917, in Warsaw, four out of every 

 hundred persons were said to have died from 

 this cause. The mortality decreased from the 

 date of the departure of the German ai-my and 

 the cancelling of the rigorous food restrictions. 

 These facts are of great importance. They 

 tend to confirm the view that our gradual de- 

 liverance from this scourge is due to better 

 feeding. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL 

 NOTES 



Thk will of the late Mrs. Harriet L. Cramer, 

 widow of the late owner of the Evening Wis- 

 consin, leaves $100,000 to the arts and science 

 department of Marquette University and ap- 

 proximately $1,000,000 to Marquette Univer- 



sity Medical School. This is the second million 

 that the medical department of Marquette 

 University has received in the past four years. 



The Kyushu Imperial University, Fukuoka, 

 Japan, has recently opened the departments of 

 medicine and engineering to women students. 

 Women are barred from attending the Univer- 

 sity of Tokyo. 



De. Arthur Grisvfold Crane has been 

 elected president of the University of Wyoming 

 to succeed Dr. Aven Nelson, president since 

 1917 and previouslj' professor of botany. Dr. 

 Crane was major in the Sanitary Corps during 

 the war. 



The Keverend Albert C. Fox, S.J., former 

 president of Campion College, at Prairie du 

 Chien, Wisconsin, has been appointed presi- 

 dent of Marquette University, succeeding the 

 Reverend Herbert C. Noonan, S.J. Father 

 Noonan assumes other administrative work in 

 the Missouri province of the Jesuit Order. 



Dr. William C. Rose, professor of biological 

 chemistry at the medical school of the Univer- 

 sity of Texas, has been appointed professor of 

 physiological chemistry a;t the University of 

 Illinois. 



Dr. Howard Bishop Lewis, instructor of 

 physiological chemistry at the University of 

 Michigan Medical School, has been appointed 

 to a chair of physiology at the university. 



Assistant Professor R. B. Robbins will 

 return to the University of Michigan after two 

 years' absence in actuarial work in the depart- 

 ments of insurance of Missouri and New York. 



At the University of Colorado, Assistant 

 Professor G. H. Light has been promoted to a 

 full professorship of mathematics and Dr. 

 Claribel Kendall to an assistant professorship. 



DISCUSSION AND CORRESPOND- 

 ENCE 

 TINGITID/E OR TlNGIDit 



The proper form to be used as the family- 

 name for the Lace-bugs (Hemiptera) has been 

 tlie subject of considerable correspondence be- 

 tween Professor Carl J. Drake and the writer 

 of these lines. 



The generic name Tingis was first employed 



