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on November 8 on the subject of insect 

 respiration. 



De. Hugh Potter Baker, executive secre- 

 tary of the American Paper and Pulp Associa- 

 tion, formerly dean of the New York State 

 College of Forestry, lectured on "Forests and 

 forestry in New England" ibefore the Middle- 

 town (Conn.) Scientific Associaition on Novem- 

 ber 14. 



Professor Elias Judah Durand, chairman 

 of the department of botany in the University 

 of Minnesota, died at his home in St. Paul on 

 Ootober 29, of eaneer. He was born in Canan- 

 daigua, N. Y., in 1870 and after graduating 

 from Cornelil University in 1893 became a 

 feUow, assistant and instructor in botany at 

 the university. In 1910 he went to the Uni- 

 versity of Missouri as assistamit professor of 

 botany, being made associate the next year. In 

 1918 he was called to the University of Minne- 

 sota as professor of botany. He was the 

 author of important conjtributions to mycology. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL 

 NOTES 



The annual report of the treasurer of Yale 

 University for the year ending June 30 records 

 an unusually large number of gifts, made to 

 meet the conditions of the $3,000,000 sub- 

 scribed to general endowment by Mrs. Stephen 

 V. Harkness. As a result of these contribu- 

 tions and the establishment of six new pro- 

 fessorship funds in memory of John W. Ster- 

 ling, '64, of almost $250,000 each, the total of 

 Yale's endowment funds is shown to be 

 $32,662,011.95, an increase of $6,985,001.25 in 

 the lasct year. Gifts for building and other 

 non-permanent funds received in the same 

 period aggregated $1,651,290.68, while gifts to 

 income amounted to $740,642.24. Induded in 

 the latter were contributions of $185,000 from 

 the General Education Board and $30,000 from 

 the Commonwealth Fund to enable the Yale 

 School of Medicine to provide funds for the 

 reconstruction of two wards in the New Haven 

 Hospital, and to build laboratories in that 

 institution, with which the school is affiliated; 

 $70,000 more from the Commonwealth Fund 

 towards the expenses of the department of 



surgery; and $286,664 received through 9,49'3 

 contributors to the Alumni Fund, the principal 

 of which was also increased by $147,060.41. 



The West Indian Agricultural College, 

 which was formally opened by Sir Samuel 

 Wilson, governor of Trinidad and Tobago, on 

 October 16, has begun its session in a tem- 

 porary building erected at St. Augustine. 

 Eighteen students have been enrolled, including 

 three post-graduates, and this is regarded as a 

 promising start for a new institution of the 

 kind. Tenders have been invited for the con- 

 struction of the permanent college building, of 

 which Major H. C. Corlette, is the architect. 



Dr. Charles Wesley Flint was inaugu- 

 rated as chancellor of Syracuse University on 

 November 17. 



Dr. Edmund C. Sanpord, president emeritus 

 of Clark College and at present head of the 

 department of psychology, has .been appointed 

 acting president of Clark Univei-sity in the ab- 

 sence of President Wallace W. Atwood. The 

 ^trustees have granted to President Atwood a 

 four months leave of absence for travel in 

 Europe. President Atwood expects to visit the 

 leading educational institutions of Europe, and 

 will observe teaching methods in western 

 Europe. 



Dr. Stanhope Batne-Jones, associate pro- 

 fessor of bacteriology at Johns Hopkins Uni- 

 versity, has been appointed professor of bac- 

 teriology at the University of Rochester. 



Dr. Howard de Forest, formerly of the 

 Indianapolis Noiinal School science depart- 

 ment, and of the botany department of the 

 University of Kansas, has been appointed as- 

 sistant professor of botany at the University of 

 Southern California in Los Angeles. 



Miss Elizabeth Evans Loih), psychologist 

 for the Chicago Juvenile Court, has been ap- 

 pointed clinical and research assistant in the 

 Yale University Psycho-Clinic. 



Dr. H. Stanley Allen, of the University of 

 Edinburgh, has been called to the chair of nat- 

 ural philosophy in the Unilt«d College of St. 

 Andrews University, which became vacant at 

 the end of the last academical year .by the re- 

 tirement of Professor Artliur Buffer. 



