July 4, 1919] 



SCIENCE 



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The Peking- Union Medical College, Peking, 

 China, which has been built under the direc- 

 tion of the Eockefeller Foundation, will be 

 open for the instruction of students in Oc- 

 tober, 1919. The school will be coeducational. 

 There is also a premedical school offering a 

 three years' course which was opened in 1917. 



Dr. Heney Kraemer has been appointed 

 dean of the college of pharmacy of the Uni- 

 versity of Michigan. 



C. E. ITewton, acting dean of the school of 

 mines at the Oregon Agricultural College 

 since the resignation of Dean E. K. Soper 

 several weeks ago, has been made dean of the 

 school. He was graduated from Michigan 

 School of Mines in 1916, and was assistant 

 professor of engineering at the University of 

 "Washington for several years before going to 

 the Oregon College in 1917 as associate pro- 

 fessor of metallurgy. 



Dr. Sumner C. Brooks, of the department 

 of tropical medicine of Harvard University, 

 has been appointed associate professor of 

 physiology and bio-chemistry at Bryn Mawr 

 College. 



At the University of Virginia Dr. Graham 

 Edgar, who was associate professor of chem- 

 istry from 1910 to 1917, has been made pro- 

 fessor of chemistry. He received the B.S. 

 degree from the University of Kentucky and 

 the Ph.D. degree from Yale University. John 

 H. Yoe has been made adjunct professor of 

 chemistry. He holds the degree of bachelor 

 of science from Vanderbilt University and 

 that of master of science from Princeton Uni- 

 versity. He will receive his doctor's degree 

 this year at Princeton. 



Major A. J. Allmand has been appointed 

 to the chair of chemistry at King's College, 

 University of London. Prior to his engage- 

 ment in war work he was demonstrator in 

 physical chemistry at the University of Liver- 

 pool. 



Colonel J. G. Adami, Strathcona professor 

 of pathology and bacteriology in McGill Uni- 

 versity since 1892, has accepted the vice-chan- 

 cellorship of the University of Liverpool. 



DISCUSSION AND CORRESPONDENCE 



METCALF AND BELL UPON SALPID^' 



Professor T. D. A. Cockerell has called my 

 attention to three errors in my^ recent dis- 

 cussion of the taxonomy of the Salpidse. He 

 writes : 



There are a few points wMeh seem to need 

 elucidation or correction, and I venture to present 

 them for your consideration. 



1. Apsteinia was used by Schmeil in Crustacea 

 in 1895. 



2. Sroolcsia is uncomfortably like Brookesia 

 Gray 1864 (Eeptilia), but the difference of a let- 

 ter saves it in my opinion. 



3. Sitteria was used by Kramer in Arachnida in 

 1877. 



4. You call the above subgena but treat them as 

 genera, using binomials. This is inconsistent: you 

 surely should get down one side of the fence. 



5. You make Salpa fusiformis the type of Salpa, 

 but this can not be, as Forskal named maxima in 

 1775, and although he recorded fusiformis without 

 name, Cuvier in 1804 described it as a species. It 

 surely is necessary to consider maxima the type of 



1. For Aijsteinia substitute Ihlea, after J. E. 

 W. Ihle, a most accurate student of the 

 Salpidse, who has worked upon most of the 

 species of this subgenus. 



2. The fact that two zoologists had similar 

 names. Brooks and Brookes, should hardly pre- 

 vent naming genera or subgenera after each, 

 especially when the names so given do not 

 resemble each other in pronunciation. 



3. For Ritieria substitute Bitieriella, Dr. 

 Cockerell's suggestion with which I concur. 



4. I do not see objection to using the sub- 

 generic name in binomial reference in a paper 

 which deals only with one genus. Such usage 

 aids brevity and is not in danger of being 

 misunderstood. 



5. The reference to Salpa fusiformis as the 

 iypus instead of Salpa maxima is clearly an 

 error, and I do not understand how it crept 

 into my manuscript, for in the synonymy 



I ' ' The SalpidEB, A Tasonomic Study, " U. S. 

 National Museum Bulletin, 100, Vol. 2, Part 2. 



2 The paper was written by me and the errors 

 are mine, not Miss Bell's. 



