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ment of the institute, 26,500 for working ex- 

 penses, and the remainder for salaries for as- 

 sistants during 1922. Work began January 1, 

 1922. The institute has its own council, ap- 

 poioited by the king and standing directly under 

 the government. At present it is located at 

 Uipsala and the direotor is nominally on the 

 university staff; but the institute is govern- 

 mental rather ithan university department or 

 agency. The first council comprises: H. Ham- 

 marskjold, lord lieutenant of Upland; A. af 

 Joekniek, Esq., dii'eetor general in the Royal 

 Committee for Pensions, Stockholm; F. Lenn- 

 mahin, M.D., re<itor of the "Kaix)linska Instu- 

 tet," Stockholm; Mre. Emilia Broome, Stock- 

 halm; J. V. Hultkranz, M.D., professor of 

 anatomy, Upsala University; H. Nilsson-Ehle, 

 M.D. and Ph.D., professor of heredity in Lund 

 University (at Akarp) ; H. Lundborg, M.D., 

 director of the institute. The present staff in- 

 cludes: Dr. P. J. Linders, statistician, archivist 

 and vi^je director; Gr. Dahlberg, M.D., medical 

 assistant, at present doing anthropometric 

 work; Dr. W. W. Krauss (formerly of Vien- 

 na), assistant anthropologist; E. Heckscher, 

 genealogist; Mrs. G. Dahlberg, who helps her 

 husiband in anthropometric work, recorded as 

 social worker ; and Mr. E. A. Ohlsen, photog- 

 rapher. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL 

 NOTES 



Ground has been broken for the new labora- 

 tory of the department of hygiene and bacteri- 

 ology at the University of Chicago to stand be- 

 tween the psychological laboratory on the north 

 and the university press on the south. The 

 building, of Ijriek, will front 110 feet on Ellis 

 Avenue and will contain a general laboratory, a 

 laboratory devoted ito the bacteriology and 

 chemistry of water and foods, five research 

 rooms, a room equipped with sterilizing de- 

 vices, and an animal room. 



By the will of the late General Frank Sher- 

 win Streeter, Dartmouth College receives 

 $50,000. A bequest of $10,000 is left to Dr. 

 Ernest M. Hopkins, president of the college. 



The council of the senate of the University 



of Oam'bridge has issued a report on the allo- 

 oation of the Special Government Grant, which 

 has now become a recurrent grant of £30,000. 

 This is divided as follows: Professorships, 

 £14,675; readerships, £5,304; university lec- 

 tureships, £3,760; university officers,' £3,240; 

 grant to Geographical Education Fund, £250; 

 university library, £2,000 ; Museum of Classioal 

 Archeology, £750. 



At Indiana University, Associate Professor 

 U. S. Hanna has been promoted to a full pro- 

 fessorship, and Assistant Professor Cora B. 

 Hennel to an associate professorship of mathe- 

 matics. 



The Bulletin of the American Mathematical 

 Society states that, on the return of pre-war 

 conditions, the U. S. Naval Academy has re- 

 duced the number of its civilian officers of 

 instiTiction in academic departments by about 

 one third. From the department of mathe- 

 matics. Assistant Processors E. P. Johnson and 

 G. F. Alrieh have accepted assistant professor- 

 ships at the Carnegie Institute of Technology, 

 and Mr. L. S. Johnston an assistant professor- 

 ship at Pennsylvania State College. 



Dr. Raymond A. Daet, formerly of Sydney 

 University, Australia, and recently of the ana^ 

 tomical department. University of London, has 

 accepted the professorship of anatomy in the 

 University of Witwatersrand, Johannesbui^, 

 South Africa, where a new medical ooUege 

 building has recently teen completed. Dr. 

 Dart came to the United States two years ago 

 on the invitation of the Rockefeller Foundation 

 to examine American laboratories and methods 

 of teaching, and to help encourage the develop- 

 ment of a better understanding and closer rela- 

 tions between English and American seientis/ts 

 teaching in medical schools. As traveling fel- 

 low of the foimdation. Dr. Dart spent some 

 time in our laboratories, and at the Marine 

 Biological Laboratory at Woods Hole, Mass., 

 where he was married to Miss Dora Tyree, as- 

 sistant in anatomy at the University of Cin- 

 cinnati. 



Dr. Holburt J. Wabing has been elected 

 dean of the faculty of medicine of the Univer- 

 sity of London. 



