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search), was recently issued. The London 

 Times states that the institute at tlie otitbreak 

 of war emphasized to the War Office the para- 

 mount need of tetanus antitoxin, and on its 

 own initiative took steps immediately to en- 

 large the capacities of its therapeutic farm at 

 Elstree, where horses were kept for the purpose 

 of producing the antitoxin. In consequence 

 the needs of the soldiers were met and thou- 

 sands of lives saved. The institute also carried 

 out researches on the antitoxin, and on various 

 other sera and antitoxins. The Trench Fever 

 Committee, of wliich Sir David Bruce is 

 chairman, owed very much to the help of the 

 institute and, indeed, could not have carried 

 its researches to their brilliant conclusion 

 without that help. Investigations arising out 

 of the outbreak of food poisoning in the Army 

 in France were also carried on, and various 

 other work in connection with food undertaken, 

 more especially that dealing with what are 

 called " accessory food factors." Scurvy, for 

 example, which was one of the great problems 

 among troops in Mesopotamia, arose from the 

 absence of one of these factors in the ration. 

 The researches of the institute enabled the 

 fact to be established, and suggested the rem- 

 edy. Causes and remedies similar in kind, 

 though differing in particulars, have been in- 

 vestigated for infantile scurvy. Other re- 

 searches are now proceeding in respect of the 

 indispensable food factors in milk, butter, 

 margarine and so on. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL 

 NEWS 



By the will of Charles E". Clark, former 

 treasurer and trustee of Smith College, prac- 

 tically his entire estate, estimated at $500,000, 

 is bequeathed to Smith and Mount Holyoke 

 colleges. 



At the University of Michigan salaries have 

 recently been increased 30 per cent, for in- 

 structors and assistant professors and 25 per 

 cent, for associate professors and full pro- 

 fessors. The new scale of salaries is from 

 $1,300 to $2,100 for instructors, $2,200 to 

 $2,600 for assistant professors, from $2,700 to 

 $3,100 for associate professors and from $3,200 



to $6,000 for full professors. The same scale 

 applies to all colleges. 



A COMPETITIVE examination to fill four va- 

 cancies in the grade of instructor in mathe- 

 matics will be held at the Naval Academy, 

 Annapolis, Maryland, on August 27. The base 

 pay is $2,000. Particulars as to the qualifi- 

 cations can be obtained from the head of the 

 department. 



Dr. H. a. Morgan, dean of the Tennessee 

 State College of Agriculture, has been elected 

 president of the University of Tennessee. 



Dr. John C. Hessler, professor of chemis- 

 try, has been appointed acting president of the 

 James Millikan University at Decatur, Illinois. 



Dr. Eollin D. Salisbury, professor of geo- 

 graphic geology and head of the department of 

 geography at the University of Chicago, has 

 been appointed head of the department of geol- 

 ogy and paleontology to succeed Professor 

 Thomas C. Chamberlin, who has retired from 

 active service. Professor Harlan H. Barrows 

 has been given the chairmanship of the de- 

 , partment of geography made vacant by the 

 transfer of Professor Salisbury. The latter 

 still remains dean of the Ogden Graduate 

 School of Science. Dr. Edson Sunderland 

 Bastin, of the United States Geological Sur- 

 vey, has been appointed to a professorship of 

 economic geology, from January 1, 1920. Dr. 

 Bastin received his doctor's degree from the 

 University of Chicago in 1909. Other new ap- 

 pointments are those of Eussell Stafford 

 Knappen to an instructorship in geology, and 

 of Derwent Stainthorpe Wliittlesey to an in- 

 structorship in geography. 



Dr. Richard Wrenshall, a graduate of Yale 

 University, has joined the faculty of the Col- 

 lege of Hawaii, as professor of chemistry. 



The following appointments have been 

 made at the University of Birmingham: John 

 Robertson as professor of hygiene and public 

 health; John Shaw Dunn as professor of 

 pathology; Leonard Gamgee as professor of 

 surgery ; B. T. Rose, demonstrator of anatomy, 

 and Miss Hilda Walker, lecturer in physiology. 



