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Dk; Samuel T. Orton, of the University of 

 Pennsylvania Hospital, has been appointed 

 head of the Psychopathic Hospital of the Uni- 

 versity of Iowa, Iowa City. 



The field party of the ISTew York State Col- 

 lege of Forestry, at Syracuse, has begiin its 

 second season of field work on the cooperative 

 ecological survey of the Palisades Interstate 

 Park. The field party, under the direction of 

 Dr. Charles C. Adams, representing the Col- 

 lege, and Mr. Edward F. Brown, represent- 

 ing the park, consists of Professor P. M. 

 Silloway, who is continuing his study of bird 

 tramping trails, in cooperation with Professor 

 H. R. Francis, who is studying the general 

 problem of park trails. The park fishes are 

 being studied by Professor T. L. Hankinson, 

 Dr. Adams and Dr. W. C. Kendall, in coopera- 

 tion with the U. S. Bureau of Fisheries. Dr. 

 J. Percy Moore, also working in cooperation 

 with the Bureau of Fisheries, is studying the 

 control of mosquitoes by fish. He is also 

 making a study of the control of leeches. Mr. 

 Walter H. Eich is making fish portraits and 

 Mr. Edmimd J. Sawyer those of birds. The 

 field assistants of the party are Mr. Robert K. 

 Fletcher and Mr. Winn Merrill. This co- 

 operative survey is conducted by the College 

 of Forestry, the Commissioners of the Pali- 

 sades Interstate Park, and in part by the 

 United States Bureau of Fisheries. 



" Mathematics and Statistics " is the sub- 

 ject of the retiring address of the president of 

 the Mathematical Association of America, 

 Professor E. V. Hmitington, Harvard Uni- 

 versity, to be given at Ann Arbor on Sep- 

 tember 4. 



A CAMPAIGN committee has made plans for 

 raising funds for the erection of an Abraham 

 Jacobi Memorial Hospital for Washington 

 Heights, ISTew York City. This locality has 

 been chosen because of its lack of hospital 

 facilities. The active campaign will not be 

 begun until ISTovemberi Dr. S. Robert Schultz 

 is' executive director of the campaign and 

 has ■ issued a call for volunteer workers. A 

 resolution will be introduced in the board of 

 aldermen at the first fall meeting, proclaim- 



ing Pleights Hospital Week from November 

 15 to 22. 



Appropriate exercises at the unveiling of 

 the memorial tablet to the late Dr. Charles 0.' 

 Zahner, professor of physiology in the Uni- 

 versity of Louisville, took place in the college 

 building, Jmie 26. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL 

 NEWS 



Dr. Bradley M. Davis, of the University of 

 Pennsylvania, has been appointed professor of 

 botany at the University of Michigan. He will 

 take up his new work in October. 



Author H. Blanchard has been appointed 

 professor of highway engineering at the Uni- 

 versity of Michigan to occupy the chair re- 

 cently established by the board of regents. He 

 will retain his consulting office at Broadway 

 and 117th Street, New" York City, until Sep- 

 tember 15, after which he will be at Ann 

 Arbor, Michigan. 



Dr. Arthur C. Neisch, of Columbia Uni- 

 versity, has accepted a position as head of the 

 department of chemistry at Queen's Univer- 

 sity, Kingston, Ontario. 



Messrs. Frederick S. Dellenbaugh, Arthur 

 L. Nelson and F. B. Philbrick, have been ap- 

 pointed instructors in electrical engineering 

 at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. 

 Mr. Dellenbaugh was a captain of the Signal 

 Corps in overseas service during the war. Dur- 

 ing the war Mr. Nelson was a lieutenant in the 

 Engineer Corps of the Navy with important 

 work relating to construction of power plants 

 and supply of power at the submarine base. 



Mr. E. a. Wildjian has resigned his position 

 as director of chemical research for Eli Lilly 

 and Company, and has accepted the position of 

 professor of chemistry and director of the 

 chemical department of Earlham College. 



Professor A. Findlay, of University Col- 

 lege of Wales, Aberystwyth, has been appointed 

 to the chair of chemistry in the University of 

 Aberdeen in succession to Professor Soddy 

 who has accepted a call to the University of 

 Oxford. 



