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be used as follows: Two professorships in the 

 graduate school will be established, and 

 several fellowships founded, and a memorial 

 building, costing about $250,000, will be built. 



Julius Eosenwald, of Chicago, has offered 

 sis scholarships of $1,200 each for negro 

 graduates of American medical schools who 

 desire to take post-graduate work in pathol- 

 ogy, bacteriology, physiology, pharmacology or 

 physiological chemistry. Appointments in 

 1920 will be made by a committee comprising : 

 Dr. William H. Welch, Johns Hopkins School 

 of Public Health, chairman; Dr. David L. 

 Edsall, dean of the Harvard Medical School, 

 and Dr. Victor 0. Vaughan, dean of the 

 medical department, University of Michigan. 

 Abraham Flexner, secretary of the General 

 Education Board, will be secretary of the 

 committee. 



The trustees of Vassar College have an- 

 nounced an increase in salaries ranging from 

 50 per cent, in the lowest grade to 12i per 

 cent, for full professors. It applies to all 

 teachers who have served the college a year 

 or more. 



The salaries of professors and other mem- 

 bers of the teaching force of the University 

 of Mississippi have been uniformly raised on 

 a scale of about fifty per cent. 



The department of anatomy at the Johns 

 Hopkins Medical School has been organized 

 as follows : Lewis H. Weed, professor of anat- 

 omy; Florence R. Sabin, professor of histol- 

 ogy; George W. Corner, associate professor of 

 anatomy; Charles C. Maeklin, associate in 

 anatomy; Robert S. Cunningham, associate 

 in anatomy; Chester H. Heuser, associate in 

 anatomy; Jean Firket, instructor in anatomy; 

 William A. Mcintosh, assistant in anatomy. 



Wh,liam McDougall, reader in mental phi- 

 losophy in Oxford University, has been elected 

 professor of psychology at Harvard Univer- 

 sity to fill the chair vacant by the death of 

 Hugo Miinsterberg. 



Dr. Herman Morris Abler, formerly as- 

 sistant professor of psychiatry in Harvard 

 University, has been appointed professor of 



criminology and head of the department of 

 social hygiene, medical jurisprudence and 

 criminology in the medical college of the Uni- 

 versity of Illinois. 



Lieutenant Sampson K. Barrett, U. S. UST. 

 R. F., who served as electrical officer on the 

 dreadnaught Wyoming with the Grand Fleet 

 in the Iforth Sea, has been discharged from 

 active service to accept an appointment as 

 assistant professor of electrical engineering 

 at l^Tew York University. 



Professor F. B. Paddock, state entomolo- 

 gist of Texas, has accepted the position as 

 state apiarist of Iowa and as associate pro- 

 fessor in the department of zoology and ento- 

 mology in the Iowa State College, to fill the 

 vacancy caused by the resignation of F. Eric 

 Millen, who took charge of the apicultural 

 work in the Ontario Agricultural College on 

 July 1. 



Dr. T. G. Yuncker, of the Michigan Agri- 

 cultural College, has been appointed assistant 

 professor of biology at DePauw University, 

 Green castle, Indiana. He will have charge of > 

 the botanical work. 



Dr. Otto Stuhlman, Jr., associated with 

 the department of physics at the State Uni- 

 versity of Iowa for the period of the war, has 

 accepted an assistant professorship in phys- 

 ics at West Virginia University. 



Victor E. jSTelson, associate in Chemistry, 

 Johns Hopkins University, has accepted a 

 position as assistant professor in charge of 

 physiological chemistry at the Iowa State Col- 

 lege. 



Dr. Francis M. Van Tuyl, associate pro- 

 fessor of geology and mineralogy in the Col- 

 orado School of Mines, has been appointed 

 professor and head of the department of geol- 

 ogy and mineralogy in that institution. 



DISCUSSION AND CORRESPONDENCE 



births and deaths in the civil popula- 

 tion OF FRANCE IN THE WAP.-TIME 



To THE Editor of Science: In the current 

 niunber of Science (September 12) just re- 

 ceived there are published the figures from 



