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(2) medical officers of the Eoyal Navy, the 

 Eoyal Army Corps, the Eoyal Air Force, and 

 the Indian and Colonial Medical Services, 

 who have to attend postgraduate courses at 

 stated intervals; (3) graduates from British 

 colonies, India and Egypt, including those 

 who have recently qualified, and wish to com- 

 plete their medical education in England, and 

 some senior men who fall into the same cate- 

 gory as the men in Class 1; (4) graduates of 

 allied coimtries, especially Americans, large 

 numbers of whom have in the past studied in 

 Germany and Austria, in many instances 

 simply because they were unable to obtain 

 equal facilities in England, as well as the 

 French, who have hitherto rarely studied 

 abroad, and the Japanese. 



The Civil List pensions granted by the Brit- 

 ish government during the year ended March 

 31 last, includes, as we learn from Nature, the 

 following: Mrs. Edith Harrison, in considera- 

 tion of the services rendered by her late hus- 

 band. Colonel W. S. Harrison, in connection 

 with inoculation against enteric and tj^hoid 

 fevers, £50; Mrs. Cash, in view of the contri- 

 butions of her late husband, George Cash, to 

 the study of Scottish topography, £50; Mr. 

 "W^iUiam Cole, in view of his contributions to 

 the study of natural history and to scientific 

 education, £50; Mrs. U. O. Cunningham, in 

 view of the services of her late husband, Pro- 

 ffessor Cunningham, as naturalist on board 

 H.M.S. Nassau during the survey of the Straits 

 of Magellan and the west coast of Patagonia, 

 and as professor of natural history in Queen's 

 College, Belfast, £50; Mr. Benjamin Harrison, 

 in view of his devotion to scientific work (in 

 addition to his pension of £26 a year), £25; 

 Mrs. E. A. Mettam, in view of the distinction 

 of her late husband. Professor A. E. Mettam, 

 as professor of pathology and bacteriology, and 

 of his contributions to veterinary science, £75; 

 Miss Helen Tichborne, in view of the late Pro- 

 fessor Tichborne's scientific discoveries in 

 chemistry and pharmacology, £60; Miss Eliza 

 Standerwick Gregory, in view of her eminent 

 services to botanical science, £60, and Lady 

 Eleanor Charlotte Turner, in view of her late 



husband. Sir George Turner's services in the 

 investigation and prevention of rinderpest, 

 and in consideration of his death through con- 

 tracting leprosy in the public service, £50. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL 



NEWS 

 Benno Loeavy, a lawyer, has left the residue 

 of his estate, said to amount to $250,000, in 

 trust to his wife, to revert to Cornell Uni- 

 versity after her death. He gave his collec- 

 tion of stamps, pamphlets, engravings and 

 illustrations to Cornell for immediate posses- 

 sion. 



The Connecticut state appropriations for 

 the agricultural stations were increased by the 

 last legislature. For the ensuing bienniiun 

 the State Station will receive $45,000, an in- 

 crease of $7,500, and the Storrs Station 

 $25,000, an increase of $10,000. 



Dk. Edward G. Boring, recently of Cornell 

 University, has been apjwinted professor of 

 experimental psychology and head of the psy- 

 chological laboratory at Clark University, to 

 succeed the late Professor Baird. The staff 

 of the department of experimental psychology 

 will consist of Professor Boring, Professor 

 Samuel W. Fernberger and Mr. Carroll D. 

 Pratt. 



The department of forestry in Colorado 

 College, which was suspended for the period 

 of the war, is being revived under the charge 

 of Mr. Gordon Parker, M.F. (Harvard), who 

 has had charge of the Montezuma National 

 Forest as supervisor for the past five years. 



De. Herman L. Ibsen, formerly connected 

 with the University of Wisconsin, has been 

 appointed assistant professor of animal gen- 

 etics at the Kansas Agricultural College. 



W. S. Nelms, Ph.D. (Columbia, '13), has 

 been elected associate professor of physics, in 

 charge of the department, of Emory Univer- 

 sity, in Atlanta, Georgia. He has been re- 

 cently discharged from the army in which he 

 was a first lieutenant in the technical staff of 

 the Ordnance Department. 



