August 15, 1919] 



SCIENCE 



161 



We learn from the Journal of the American 

 Mathematical Society that the technical stafE 

 of the United States Ordnance Department 

 has been authorized to secure the services of 

 five experts in mathematics and dynamics, at 

 salaries ranging from $3,500 to $5,000, to con- 

 duct scientific research on ordnance problems, 

 act as advisers on all mathematical and sci- 

 entific problems, for the ordnance department, 

 and keep up connections between the depart- 

 ment and the scientific world. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL 

 NEWS 



George Eastman, head of the Eastman Ko- 

 dak Company, has given the sum of $3,500,000 

 for the establishment of a school of music in 

 connection with the University of Rochester. 

 The school will aim to aid the development of 

 an appreciation of the highest type of motion 

 pictures as an ally of the highest type of music. 



It is stated in Nature that to a private depu- 

 tation from the Education Committee of the 

 Parliamentary Labor party, which urged upon 

 him the desirability of an inquiry into the or- 

 ganization and financial position of the uni- 

 versities of Oxford and Cambridge, Mr. Fisher 

 has made the announcement that the govern- 

 ment has decided to appoint commissions to 

 inquire into the position of the universities of 

 Oxford and Cambridge. At both universities 

 the existing resources have proved inadequate 

 to meet the increased cost of maintenance of 

 the various departments, and a few months 

 ago the authorities of each independently ap- 

 plied to the government for financial aid. In 

 reply to these requests Mr. Eisher, on behalf 

 of the government, stated that such grants out 

 of Parliamentary funds could be sanctioned 

 only on the condition that in due course com- 

 prehensive inquiries into the whole resources 

 of the universities and their colleges and the 

 use made of them should be instituted by the 

 government. The Cambridge senate on May 

 31 authorized the vice-chancellor to inform 

 Mr. Eisher that the university would welcome 

 a comprehensive inquiry into its financial re- 

 sources, and at Oxford a similar decision was 

 taken by convocation on June 10. 



Dr. Ernest Sachs, hitherto associate pro- 

 fessor of surgery in the medical school of 

 Washington University, St. Louis, has been 

 appointed professor of clinical neurological 

 surgery in the same institution.' This is the 

 first instance in which any medical school has 

 recognized neurological surgery by creating for 

 it a separate department. 



Dr. L. J. Gillespie, of the Bureau of Plant 

 Industry, has been appointed professor of 

 physical chemistry in Syracuse University. 



Dr. N". a. Lange, formerly instructor in or- 

 ganic chemistry at the University of Michi- 

 gan has been appointed assistant professor of 

 organic chemistry at the Case School of Ap- 

 plied Science, Cleveland. 



Dr. IL\ery D. Ejtson, instructor in psychol- 

 ogy at the University of Chicago, has accepted 

 the position at Indiana University made va- 

 cant by Professor E. C. Lindley, who accepted 

 the presidency of the University of Idaho. 



Dr. Clifford H. Farr has resigned his posi- 

 tion in the Bureau of Plant Industry to ac- 

 cept appointment as assistant professor of 

 plant physiology in the University of Iowa. 



At the University of Georgia, Paul Weather- 

 wax, Ph.D. (Indiana), has been appointed as- 

 sociate professor of botany with special refer- 

 ence to physiology and genetics. Joseph 

 Krafka, Jr., Ph.D. (Illinois), has been ap- 

 pointed associate professor of zoology, and 

 John Moore Reade, Ph.D., professor of botany, 

 has been made director of the biological laib- 

 oratories. 



Appointjients for next year at the college of 

 arts and sciences. University of Buffalo, in- 

 clude the following : Daniel B. Leary, formerly 

 head of department of education at Tulane 

 University, to be professor of psychology and 

 instructor in Russian; Edward J. Moore, asso- 

 ciate professor of physics at Oberlin Collie, 

 to be professor of physics, and Albert R. 

 Shadle, assistant professor of zoology at Cor- 

 nell, to be assistant professor of biology. 



Professor A. Findlay, professor of chemis- 

 try. University College of Wales, Aberystwytli, 



