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League of Nations which held its first session 

 at Geneva from August 1 to 5. The eommis- 

 sion had been given a free hand to define its 

 own program with due regard to existing na- 

 tional activities and existing organs of inter- 

 national intellectual life. The following were 

 among the topics selected for consideration : 

 the desperate economic condition of the intelli- 

 genzia in some European countries — notably 

 Austria and Poland; the protection of pro- 

 prietary rights in scientific discoveries and 

 ideas; the establishment of an international 

 entente for the examination and publication of 

 archeologieal monuments; inter-university rela- 

 tions; and an international organization of 

 bibliography. All these questions have been 

 referred to individual members of the commis- 

 sion or to sub-commissions for the preparation 

 of reports with the view of taking further ac- 

 tion. As for cooperation in scientific research, 

 the commission, anxious not to interfere in the 

 organization or work of the scientific societies, 

 decided that this should be left to the initiative 

 of the societies themselves. Another question 

 on which the commission found itself unable to 

 take any useful action was the publication by 

 common consent of workers in all parts of the 

 world of discoveries relative to toxic gases and 

 the development of chemical warfare. It de- 

 cided to reply to the reduction-of-armaments 

 commission, which had referred the question, 

 that it was unable to suggest methods whereby 

 this result might be brought about. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL 

 NOTES 



Mr. J.\mes B. Duke has given $1,125,000 to 

 Trinity College. The gifts include $1,000,000 

 to the college endowment fund, $25,000 to the 

 new gymnasium, $50,000 towards a $100,000 

 law building and $50,000 toward a $100,000 

 building for the new school of religious train- 

 ing. 



Dr. Worth Hale, assistant dean of the 

 Harvard Medical School, has been appointed 

 acting dean to serve during Dr. David L. Ed- 

 sall's absence in Europe during the first half 

 year; Dr. Roger I. Lee will serve as acting 

 dean of the School of Public Health. 



Dr. John M. T. Finney has been appointed 

 temporary surgeon-in-chief of the Johns Hop- 

 kins Hospital and professor of surgery in the 

 medical school, in place of the late Dr. William 

 S. Halsted. The faculty will appoint a com- 

 mittee to make a permanent selection. 



Dr. L. a. Pechstein, director of the depart- 

 ment of psychology and education of the Uni- 

 versity of Rochester, has been appointed dean 

 of the College for Teachers of the University 

 of Cincinnati, to succeed Dr. W. P. Burris. 



The psychology department of the Ohio 

 State University announces the following addi- 

 tions to its staff: Herbert H. Goddard, full 

 professor; Robert D. Williams, assistant pro- 

 fessor; Marjorie Bates, instructor. The fol- 

 lowing promotions have also been made : 

 Harold E. Burtt to full professor; A. Sophie 

 Rogers to assistant professor. 



Richard C. Lord, Ph.D. (Washington and 

 Lee), for some time engaged in industrial 

 chemistry, has been appointed assistant pro- 

 fessor of chemistry and physics in Kenyon 

 College. 



Dr. F. I. Wertheimer, recently connected 

 with Professor Kraepelin's clinic at Munich, 

 has become a member of the staff of the Henry 

 Phipps Piychiatric Clinic at the Johns Hop- 

 kins Hospital. 



The Council of University College of North 

 Wales has appointed Professor David Thoday, 

 of the South African University, Cape Town, 

 to the chair of botany, in succession to Dr. 

 Phillips, who retires after thirty-eight years' 

 service. 



Dr. George Hasv^ell Wilson, lecturer in 

 bacteriology at the University of Glasgow, has 

 been appointed to the chair of pathology in 

 the University of Bii-mingham, rendered vacant 

 by the election of Professor J. Shaw Dunn to 

 the corresponding post in the University of 

 Manchester. 



DISCUSSION AND CORRESPOND- 

 ENCE 

 THE DEATH R.'XTE FROM TUBERCULOSIS 



To the Editor op Science: About a year 

 ago, I had occasion to request of the chief 



