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the 615,922 soldiers held prisoners of war in 

 other lands, and the 4,207,023 wounded. The 

 dead numbered 1,676,696, and the missing 

 most of whom are presumably dead, 373,770, 

 a total of 2,000,000 killed in the war. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL 



NEWS 



The will of General Horace W. Carpentier 

 has now been filed. The estate is valued at 

 $3,606,000. The principal beneficiaries are 

 Columbia University and Barnard College, 

 each of which receives $1,420,000. Other 

 beneficiaries include the Presbyterian Hos- 

 pital, $200,000; Sloan Hospital, $200,000, and 

 the University of California, $100,000. 



By the will of the late Charles W. Lenney, 

 of New York, $50,000 is left to Boston Uni- 

 versity. 



Mr. Arthur Balfour has been nominated 

 for election as chancellor of Cambridge Uni- 

 versity, in succession to his brother-in-law, 

 the late Lord Rayleigh. 



Colorado College has again opened its 

 forestry school, which was closed for two years 

 because of the war. Mr. J. Gordon Parker 

 has been appointed assistant professor of 

 forestry in charge of the school. 



A NEW department of physiological chem- 

 istry has recently been established at the Uni- 

 versity of Kansas. Dr. C. Ferdinand Nelson 

 has been elected professor of biological chem- 

 istry and head of department. 



At Yale University Arthur Phillips, M.S., 

 has been appointed assistant professor of 

 metallurgy, in the Sheffield Scientific School; 

 James Albert Honeij, M.D., at present assist- 

 ant professor, professor of clinical medicine in 

 charge of radiology, and Wilder Tileston, M.D., 

 at present assistant professor of medicine, pro- 

 fessor of clinical medicine. 



Dr. C. W. Hewlett, professor of physios in 

 the North Carolina College for "Women, 

 Greensboro, N. C, has been appointed assist- 

 ant professor of physics at the University of 

 Iowa. 



Recent appointments in the medical school 

 of Loyola University, Chicago, are as follows: 



S. A. Matthews, M.D., professor and head of 

 the department of physiology, pharmacology 

 and therapeutics; A. C. Ivy, A.M., Ph.D., 

 formerly instructor in physiology at the 

 University of Chicago, associate professor in 

 physiology; E. S. Maxwell, formerly instructor 

 in pathology at Vanderbilt University and 

 more recently first lieutenant in the U. S. 

 Medical Corps, associate professor in bacter- 

 iology and pathology. 



Dr. Harrison R. Hunt has resigned as as- 

 sistant professor of zoology at West Virginia 

 University to become head of the department 

 of biology at the University of Mississippi, 

 Oxford, Mississippi. 



Dr. J. W. Shipley, professor of chemistry 

 in the Manitoba Agricultural College, has re- 

 signed his position in order to accept an ap- 

 pointment as assistant professor in chemistry 

 in the University of Manitoba. 



DISCUSSION AND CORRESPONDENCE 



THE RIGIDITY OF THE EARTH 



To THE Editor of Science: An account of 

 an experiment to determine the rigidity of 

 the earth was published in The Astrophysical 

 Journal and in The Journal of Geology, 

 March, 1914 and in Science, June 26, 1914. 

 This gave the ratios of the amplitudes of tides 

 observed in N.-S. and E.-W. pipes to the am- 

 plitudes computed for the same pipes on the 

 assumption of a perfectly rigid earth, as .523 

 and .710 respectively. 



The work of reducing a new set of auto- 

 matically recorded observations made by an 

 interference method, which was interrupted 

 by the war, was recently resumed, and it was 

 found that the N.-S. and E.-W. ratios were 

 very nearly equal to each other. 



It was then noted that -— - =.7366 and that 



the cosine of the latitude of Yerkes Observa- 

 tory, where the experiment was performed, is 

 .7363. It seemed highly probable therefore 

 that coS(^ had been introduced erroneously 

 into the computed formula far the N.-S. tides. 

 We have just been informed by Professor 



