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date has not been definitely decided upon, but 

 will be about December 12, 1919. 



The French branch of the Ramsay Memo- 

 rial Fund, which is to commemorate the work 

 of the late Sir William Ramsay, is asking for 

 contributions to a fimd of one million francs 

 (£40,000) for the purpose of founding Ramsay 

 Memorial Fellowships in chemical science, 

 similar to those to be founded in Great 

 Britain, such French fellowships to be avail- 

 able for bringing to England for purposes of 

 research chemists trained in the xmiversities 

 and technical colleges of France. An appeal 

 is being made throughout France. The French 

 branch, of which Mr. Lloyd George is presi- 

 dent, includes among its committee M. Pichon, 

 M. Deschanel, Lord Derby, Lord Hardinge 

 of Penshurst, Lord Bertie, and Sir George 

 Riddell. The cost of founding each fellow- 

 ship will be £6,000. It is hoped by their 

 means to enlist the influence of the univer- 

 sities of the two countries in promoting help- 

 ful international relations. The appeal in 

 France is being directed specially to British 

 and American residents there, and to the 

 large number of persons of all nationalities 

 who have for many months past been in 

 France, while performing duties connected 

 with the Peace Conference. 



The current agricultural appropriation bill 

 carries the following items, largely to be de- 

 voted . to scientific research in applied agri- 

 culture : 



Weather Bureau $1,880,210 



Bureau of Animal Industry . . . 5,783,231 



Bureau of Plant Industry 3,379,638 



Forest Service 5,966,869 



Bureau of Chemistry 1,391,571 



Bureau of Soils 491,235 



Bureau of Entomology 1,371,360 



Bureau of Biological Survey . . 742,170 



This reaches a total of $21,006,284 out of 

 the entire appropriation to the Department 

 of Agriculture amounting to $33,900,211. 

 The growth of the sums expended in research 

 work imder the Department of Agriculture 

 has been enormous of late years, and seems 

 to have been fully justified by results: 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL 

 NEWS 



The building for the Kansas University 

 Medical School for which $200,000 was ap- 

 propriated by the recent legislature, will be 

 erected provided the city of Rosedale fur- 

 nishes the additional ground needed, which is 

 valued at $60,000. 



Excavation has been begun for a $70,000 

 engineering laboratory at the Oregon Agri- 

 cultural College. It will be a two-story struc- 

 ture 220 by 63 feet and of brick and concrete 

 construction. 



Mrs. Alice Jessie Sheppee has given £2,000 

 to Oxford University for the foundation of a 

 scholarship in engineering science. 



De. W. W. Charters, dean of the College 

 of Education at the University of Illinois, 

 has resigned to accept a position with the 

 Carnegie Institute of Technology as professor 

 of education to do research work in con- 

 nection with curriculum organization and 

 construction. 



Dr. C. a. Fischer, of Columbia University, 

 has been appointed Seabury professor of 

 mathematics and astronomy at Trinity Col- 

 lege, Hartford. 



J. P. Fairbank, B.S.C., University of 

 Nebraska, who has been assistant professor 

 and acting head of the department of agri- 

 cultural engineering in the college of agri- 

 culture at the State Colleg-e of Washington, 

 Pullman, Wash., has been promoted to pro- 

 fessor and head of the department of agri- 

 cultural engineering. 



Dr. Charles W. Easley, head of the de- 

 partment of chemistry at the University of 

 Maine, has accepted a chair at Syracuse Uni- 

 versity. He is to be succeeded at Maine by 

 Dr. Charles A. Brautlecht, of the Florida 

 State College for Women, Tallahassee. 



Mr. H. M. Showman, of the Colorado 

 School of Mines, has been appointed assistant 

 professor of mathematics in the Case School 

 of Applied Science. 



Dr. Leonard Doncaster, F.R.S., has been 

 appointed to the Derby chair of zoology in 

 Liverpool University. 



