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'September 24. He will study the grasses of 

 that country, retiiming in about four months. 

 The work will be done in cooperation with the 

 New York Botanical Garden and the Gray 

 Herbarium. 



George B. Shattuck has resigned the chair 

 of geology at Vassar College for the purpose 

 of joining an expedition to Africa. 



The Remington Medal, given annually to a 

 miember of the American Pharmaceutical As- 

 sociation, who makes the most notable con- 

 tribution toward the advancement of phar- 

 macy, was awarded to Professor James P. 

 Beal, dean of the college of pharmacy of the 

 University of Illinois, Chicago, at the sixty- 

 seventh annual meeting of the American 

 Pharmaceutical Association held in New York 

 City. 



Dr. M. E. Conner, chairman of the Eocke- 

 feller Foundation Commission to Guayaquil. 

 Ecuador, was presented with a gold medal, 

 August 11, in recognition of his services in 

 the campaign against yellow fever. 



George R. Green has resumed his duties as 

 associate professor of forestry at Pennsylvania 

 State College. Professor Green was employed 

 during the war as wood technologist at the 

 Naval Aircraft Factory in Philadelphia, in 

 charge of all experiments having -to do with 

 wood, glues and fabric, supervision of the dry 

 kilns, and the school for inspectors and wood 

 workers. 



Mr. a. D. Greenlee, formerly assistant 

 chemist with the food research laboratory, 

 U. S. Bureau of Chemistry, and, during the 

 period of the war, specialist in poultry hand- 

 ling for the same bureau, with office at the 

 Field Station, IndianajMlis, Ind., has resigned 

 from this position to become president of the 

 newly organized Greenlee Products Company, 

 at St. Louis. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL 

 NEWS 



The University of Eedlands, Redlands, Cal- 

 ifornia, has completed a campaign for funds 

 for a program of expansion. In excess of 

 $50,000 was raised by popular subscription in 



the city and a similar sum was secured by 

 subscription outside. In addition to these 

 amounts, special gifts for buildings aggregate 

 $100,000, construction on two of these, a sci- 

 ence hall, and a new men's dormitory, to 

 begin during the present summer. The uni- 

 versity will also receive a large sum from the 

 Baptist Church Fund. 



At Tufts College a research fellowship has 

 been established for work on the physiological 

 problems in surgery, under the direction of 

 Professor A. H. Ryan, of the department of 

 physiology and Professor F. H. Lahey, of the 

 department of surgery. 



The trustees of the Western Reserve Uni- 

 versity have voted an increase of twenty per 

 cent, to the salaries of the entire full-time 

 instructing staff of the medical school. 



Dr. Emil Goetsch, associate professor of 

 surgery in Johns Hopkins University, has 

 been appointed professor of surgery at the 

 Long Island College Hospital, Brooklyn, N. Y. 



Professor E. I. Terry, for some time con- 

 nected with the Colorado School of Forestry, 

 has been appointed professor of forestry at 

 ^liddlebury College, Vermont. He will be 

 supervisor of the 25,000 acres of forest land 

 recently bequeathed to the institution. 



Dr. E. J. Moore, associate professor of 

 physics in Oberlin College, has been appointed 

 professor in charge of physics at the Univer- 

 sity of Buffalo. 



Dr. J. F. Dashiell, assistant professor of 

 psychology in Oberlin College, has been ap- 

 pointed associate professor in charge of psy- 

 chology in the University of North Carolina, 

 succeeding in that capacity the president elect. 

 Dr. H. W. Chase. 



Miss Grace MacLeod, assistant editor of 

 the Journal of Industrial and Engineering 

 Chemistry, has resigned in order to accept the 

 position of instructor in the department of nu- 

 trition and food economics in Teachers College, 

 Columbda University. 



Dr. J. K. Shaw has resigned as pomologist 

 in the Massachusetts Experiment Station in 



