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for the investigation of hypertrichiasis, from 

 a person whose name is for tlie present with- 

 lield. A committee in charge of the grant has 

 been appointed, consisting of the dean, Dr. G. 

 Canby Kobinson; Dr. M. F. Engman, of the 

 department of dermatology, to whom the 

 grant was proposed, and Dr. Charles H. Dan- 

 forth, of the department of anatomy, who will 

 carry on the investigation which will be 

 chiefly in the fields of anthropology and hered- 

 ity. 



A " Roosevelt Institute of American Family 

 Life," to be developed in connection with the 

 eugenics record office of the Carnegie Institu- 

 tion, in "Washington, has been proposed to the 

 Roosevelt Permanent Memorial National Com- 

 mittee by the Eugenics Research Association 

 of Cold Spring, Long Island. The association 

 in outlining the project explains that it owns 

 eighty acres of land in Roosevelt's own voting 

 district, and has already laid the foundation 

 for the study of the factors controlling Ameri- 

 can family life. In the announcement, which 

 proposes the erection of the memorial insti- 

 tute at Oyster Bay, the association declares: 

 " This memorial institute will strive to ad- 

 vance those ideas of responsible and patriotic 

 parenthood for which Theodore Roosevelt so 

 valiantly battled." In addressing the national 

 committee the association wrote : " We re- 

 spectfully call your attention to the following 

 factors which contribute to the fitness of this 

 suggestion: The Roosevelt memorial should, 

 like the man in whose memory it is built, battle 

 for the advancement of the eugenical ideal in 

 American family life. It should be located in 

 Roosevelt's own neighborhood. The safety of 

 the foundation fund could be absolutely se- 

 cured by placing it as trust with the Carnegie 

 Institution of Washington. Its proximity to 

 New York City makes the Oyster Bay neigh- 

 borhood an exceptionally fitting place for the 

 institute." 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL 



NEWS 

 Harvard University is bequeathed $100,000 

 for the study of mrthods to reform and cure 



criminals and mental defectives by surgery 

 under the will of Dr. J. Ewing Mears. 



In accordance with the vsrill of the late 

 Clementine C. Conkling, real estate in the city 

 of Omaha to the value of approximately 

 twenty-five thousand dollars has been be- 

 queathed to the college of medicine, University 

 of Nebraska, Omaha. 



The Goldsmiths' Company has offered the 

 sum of £15,000 to London Hospital for the en- 

 dowment of a ichair of bacteriology, to be 

 known as the Goldsmiths' Company's chair of 

 bacteriology. 



The Utah Agricultural Experiment Station 

 recently established a department of human 

 nutrition. R. L. Hill, Ph.D. (Cornell), for- 

 merly of the Maryland Agricultural Experi- 

 ment Station and first lieutenant in the Sani- 

 tary Corps of the Army, has been appointed 

 head of the department with Blanche Cooper, 

 B.S., formerly nutrition expert for the Utah 

 Agricultural College Extension Division, asso- 

 ciate. 



Dr. Harry Woodburn Chase, professor of 

 psychology, has been elected president of the 

 University of North Carolina. 



' Dr. a. F. Kidder has resigned as professor 

 of agronomy in the college of agriculture, 

 Louisiana State University, to accept a posi- 

 tion as agronomist and assistant director of 

 the State Agricultural Experiment Station at 

 Baton Rouge. 



Nathan Fasten, B.S. (C. C. N. Y. '10), 

 Ph.D. (Wisconsin, '14), has been promoted to 

 the rank of assistant professor of zoology at the 

 University of Washington, Seattle. 



Professor T. Brailsford Robertson, pro- 

 fessor of biochemistry in the University of 

 Toronto, has been ai>pointed to succeed the 

 late Sir Edward C. Stirling as professor of 

 physiology in the University of Adelaide, South 

 Australia. 



Mr. W. L. Bragg has been appointed to the 

 Langworthy chair of physics in the University 

 of Manchester in succession to Sir Ernest 

 Rutherford. 



