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also ibe sessions on Friday, December 1. The 

 annual meeting will be held in Boston, Decem- 

 ber 26 to 30. 



The second annual meeting of the Deutsche 

 Gresellsohaft fiir Vererbungswissensehaft was 

 held in Vienna on September 25-27. A report 

 in Nature says that, though technically a meet- 

 ing of the German society only, in fact the 

 congress was largely initernational in character, 

 the visitors including representatives from 

 England, America, Italy, Switzerland, Japan, 

 Holland and the Scandinavian countries. Pro- 

 fessor E. Wettstein presided, and the opening 

 address was delivered iby Professor E. Baur 

 ('Berlin). The principal discussions were 

 opened by Professor Gtoldschmidt (Berlin) on 

 "The Mutation Problem," and by Professor 

 Ruedin (Munich) on "The Inheritance of 

 Mental Defects." Demonstrations /were ar- 

 ranged in the zoological laboratory of the uni- 

 versity and in the Natural History Museum. 

 Visits were made ito the Biologische Versueh- 

 sanstalt (where Professor Steinach demon- 

 strated his transplantation experiments in rats 

 and guinea pigs) and to the principal libraries 

 and art galleries in the ixm'n. Professor R. 

 Hertiwig was elected president for the ensuing 

 year, and the society accepted his invitation to 

 meet at Munich in 1923. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL 

 NOTES 



The Joint Administrative Board of Colum- 

 bia University and the Presbyterian Hospital 

 has announced that the site for the new medical 

 center has been transferred to the university 

 and the hospital. The land site extends be- 

 tween One Hundred and Sixty-fifth and One 

 Hundred and Sixty-eighth Streets from 

 Broadway to the Hudson River. It is in ex- 

 cess of twenty acres, and is valued at 

 $4,000,00.0. It is the gift of Mrs. Stephen V. 

 Harkness and Edward S.- Harkness. It was 

 also announced that an agreemelit has been 

 confirmed between the Presbyterian Hospital, 

 Columbia University and Mrs. Harkness, as 

 donor, for the transfer of a fund of $1,300,000 

 to Columbia University, for the endowment of 

 educational and scientific work in the School of 

 Medicine and the Presbyterian Hospital. An 



additional $1,000,000 has been given by Mr. 

 Harkness toward the construction of the new 

 Presbyterian Hospital, and $1,000,000 for the 

 school of medicine. 



We learn from the Journal of the American 

 Medical Association that the first building for 

 the new University of Rochester Medical 

 School, a laboratory building, will be com- 

 pleted this month. Temporary offices of ad- 

 ministration will be established in it. An ap- 

 propriation of $1,000,000 has been made by 

 the city government for the new municipal hos- 

 pital, which will adjoin the Strong Memorial 

 Hospital. They will have a conibined capacity 

 of 460 beds. The university is to furnish the 

 professional staff and the city the nonprofes- 

 sional employees, under a contract recently ap- 

 proved. 



Mr. Charles C Sharp has given $17,000 to 

 the Ohio State University as an endowment 

 fund for the library of the department of 

 chemistry. Mr. Sharp received the degree in 

 civil engineering from the university in 1888. 



The new dairy industry and horticulture 

 buildings at the branch of the University of 

 California College of Agriculture at the Uni- 

 versity rami, Davis, were formally dedicated 

 on October 24. The principal addresses were 

 given by President R. A. Pearson, of the Iowa 

 State College, on "Dairy research and educa- 

 tion," by Dr. W. H. Chandler, professor of 

 pomology and vice-director of research in the 

 New York State College of Agriculture at Cor- 

 nell University, on "The outlook of agricul- 

 tural research," and by President David P. 

 Barrows, of the University of California. 



Dr. Edson Sunderland Bastin, professor 

 of economic geology in the University of Chi- 

 cago, has been made chairman of the depart- 

 ment to succeed the late head, Dean Rollin D. 

 Salisbury. 



At the New York Homeopathic Medical 

 College and Flower Hospital the following ap- 

 pointments are announced: Israel S. Kleiner, 

 Ph.D., dean; Wm. E. Youland, Jr., M.D., head 

 of the department of pathology; Archibald 

 McNeil, M.D., professor of bacteriology ; Annis 

 E. Thomson, M.D., instructor in bacteriology; 

 Jenny Drennan, M.D., resident pathologist. 



