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placed in Westminster Abbey. Tbe tablet has 

 been executed by Mr. Charles L. Hartwell, 

 A.R.A., and was exMbited at the Royal Acad- 

 emy this summer. 



Dr. Horatio E. Stqrer died at his home in 

 Newport on September 18, at the age of ninety- 

 two years. Dr. Storer was a distinguished 

 gynecologist, who, after an infection from an 

 operation, retired from active practise in 1872. 

 He continued to be active in many scientific 

 movements, having been the founder and life- 

 president of the Newport Natural History 

 Society. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL 

 NOTES 



By the will of Dr. William S. Halsted, 

 lately professor of surgery in the Johns Hop- 

 kins University, the residue of his estate, valued 

 at approximately $100,000, is left to the uni- 

 versity, subject to the payment annually to his 

 widow of five per cent, of the value of the 

 legacy. The bequest is to be devoted to re- 

 search in medicine, preferaibly in surgery. 



Osr September 6, the old chemical laboratory 

 of the Massachusetts Agricultural College was 

 destroyed by fire. The building was one of 

 the oldest on the campus, having been built in 

 1867, and occupied more or less completely by 

 the department of chemistry since that time. 

 About four thousand dollars' worth of appara- 

 tus, including all the platinum, was recovered. 

 A new laboratory was provided for during the 

 last legislature 'by an appropriation of 

 $300,000. This building is now being erected 

 and will be ready for occupancy in August, 

 1923. 



Bt action of the board of trustees of the 

 Ohio State University on June 19, supple- 

 mented by further action on July 11, the Col- 

 lege of Homeopathic Medicine, which had been 

 a part of the university since 1914, was abol- 

 ished. 



Dean D. W. Morehouse, for twenty-two 

 years professor of physics and astronomy at 

 Drake University, Des Moines, Iowa, has been 

 elected dean of the liberal arts col.egf and 

 acting president. President Arthur Holmes is 



on ieave of absence, his resignation taking 

 effect on June 1, 1923. Dr. Morehouse was 

 a^varded the Donahue Comet Medal in 1908 for 

 discovery of the Morehouse comet. 



Dr. W. N. Steil, of the University of Wis- 

 consin, has been appointed professor of botany 

 in Marquette University, tie former depart- 

 ment of biology having been divided into the 

 separate departments of botany and zoology. 

 Dr. Edward J. Menge, former director of the 

 department, automatically ibecomes director of 

 the department of zoology. 



Dr. Martin- C. E. H^nke has been appoint- 

 ed instructor in physiological chemistry at the 

 University of Chicago. 



W. J. KosTiR, who during the past year has 

 been instructor in zoology at Columbia Uni- 

 versity, returns this fall to Ohio State Univer- 

 sity as assistant professor of zoology and en- 

 tomology. 



Dr. L. E. Miles, of the Mississippi Plant 

 Board, has become associate professor of plant 

 pathology and associate plant pathologist in 

 the Alabama Polj'technic Institute and Experi- 

 ment Station. 



Professor H. K. Dean, of the University of 

 Manchester, has been appointed professor of 

 2Dathology at the University of Cambridge in 

 succession to the late Sir German Sims Wood- 

 head. 



Captain George Paget Thomson, lecturer 

 in mathematics at Corpus Christi College, Cam- 

 bridge, has been appointed to the chair of nat- 

 ural philosophy in the University of Aberdeen, 

 in succession to Professor C. Niven, recently 

 retired. Mr. Thomson, who was unanimously 

 elected by the court out of seventeen applicants, 

 is the only son of Professor Sir J. J. Thomson, 

 master of Trinity, Cambridge. He has had a , 

 distinguished academical career, and is only 

 thirty years of age. 



DISCUSSION AND CORRESPOND- 

 ENCE 

 GROWTH OF PLANTS IN ARTIFICIAL LIGHT 

 FROM SEED TO SEED 



During the past winter the author has suc- 

 ceeded in producing good seed from plants 



