July 18, 1919] 



SCIENCE 



65 



Nature says : " The facts made known by 

 Lord Gainford and Lord Harcourt in the 

 House of Lords on February 26 show that a 

 long time must elapse before our museums and 

 the staff of the Board of Education can resume 

 their work unhindered. The latter body is 

 scattered throughout London, while its records 

 are stored in the galleries of the Victoria and 

 Albert Museum. Half that museum is closed 

 to the public, its circulation department shut 

 down, its textile classes and other aids to in- 

 dustry suspended. The priceless Wallace col- 

 lections are still in underground tubes. The 

 National Portrait Gallery, the London Mu- 

 seum, the Tate Gallery and the British Mu- 

 suem galleries of prints and of Egyptian and 

 Assyrian antiquities, as well as much of its 

 storage space, are occupied by huge clerical 

 staffs. Finally, the exhibition gallaries of the 

 Imperial Institute continue to be filled with a 

 succession of other departments; the insti- 

 tute's lectures and demonstrations are in abey- 

 ance and its own research work is hampered 

 because the raw materials are stored elsewhere. 

 The result is not only to disappoint the Ameri- 

 can and Dominion troops, and to deny the 

 British taxpayer the enjoyment of his great 

 educational establishments; it is, above all, a 

 serious check on the commercial and industrial 

 development of the country. tTnavoidable the 

 delay may be, yet we can not help feeling that 

 the situation would not have arisen had min- 

 isters a truer appreciation of the work done by 

 and in our public museums." 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL 

 NEWS 



The gift of a chemical laboratory to Cor- 

 nell University has already been announced. 

 In a recent address President Schurman 

 quoted the words of the anonymous donor : " I 

 will provide you with a chemical laboratory, 

 fully adequate to the needs of the university, 

 and one that will in all respects and size 

 be the best there is in America." It is said 

 that the laboratory may cost $1,500,000 and 

 that the new building will be placed where 

 President Sehurman's house now stands. 



Princeton University receives $50,000 by 

 the will of the late Arthur Pemberton Sturges, 

 and $10,000 by the will of the late Samuel K. 

 Martin. 



Professor Dexter S. Kimball has been 

 elected chairman of the faculty committee on 

 Organization of the College of Engineering of 

 Cornell University, which will combine the two 

 existing colleges. He was also elected dean of 

 the new college upon its organization in 1921, 

 when Dean Haskell and Dean Smith will re- 

 tire by reason of having attained the age of 

 sixty-five years. 



Assistant Professor W. S. Foster, of the 

 department of psychology, of Cornell Uni- 

 versity, goes to the uxiiversity of Minnesota 

 as full professor. 



Dr. Arthur "W. Hixson has been appointed 

 associate professor of chemical engineering at 

 Columbia University. Professor Hixson was 

 formerly associate professor of industrial 

 chemistry and metallurgy at the University of 

 Iowa, but for the last year he has been in the 

 Ordnance Department at Washington, Dr. 

 J. J. Morgan, assistant professor of chemistry 

 at Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, 

 K". J., has been appointed assistant professor 

 of chemical engineering. 



At Lehigh University Ralph J. Fogg, a 

 menlber of the civil engineering department 

 for eleven years, has been appointed professor 

 of civil engineering and head of the depart- 

 ment, and Dr. Fred V. Larkin, for the past 

 four years assistant superintendent of the 

 Harrisburg Pipe and Pipe Bending Company, 

 has been appointed professor of mechanical 

 engineering and head of the department. 



At Eutgers College P. H. Van der Menlen, 

 Ph.D., has been appointed assistant professor 

 of chemistry; Geo. W. Martin, M.A., assistant 

 professor of boitany; Thurlow C. Nelson, 

 Ph.D., assistant professor of zoology, and T. 

 Alan Devan, M.D., professor of hygiene and 

 sanitary science. 



Lieutenant-Colonel Frank D. Adams has 

 returned from Europe for the purpose of as- 



