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at the Agriciiltural and Mechanical College of 

 Texas. The Texas Legislature has recently 

 jprovided $250,000 for an agricultural huild- 

 ing also. Plans and specifications are now 

 being drawn for this building which will ,be 

 started next summer. 



The Georgia Legislature, at its recent 

 session, increased its appropriation for the 

 medical department of the State University 

 from $30,000 to $55,000. Of the new funds, 

 the sum of $20,000 is to be used to establish a 

 course in Public Health and Hygiene, and the 

 sum of $5,000 is to be added to the general 

 income of the school. 



In the medical department of the University 

 of Pennsylvania Dr. William H. P. Addison 

 has been made a full professor of histology and 

 embryology; Dr. Oscar H. Plant has been pro- 

 m.oted to a full professorship in pharmacology ; 

 Dr. Byron M. Hendricks and Eaymond Stehle 

 have been promoted to assistant professorships 

 of physiologic chemistry. 



Dr. Herbert S. Langfeld has been ap- 

 pointed director of the psychological laboratory 

 of Harvard University and Dr. L. T. Troland 

 and Dr. Floyd H. AUport, have been appointed 

 instructors in psychology. Dr. "William Mc- 

 Dougall, whose appointment as professor of 

 psychology was reported in a recent issue of 

 Science, will take up his work at the begin- 

 ning of the next academic year. 



The department of botany of Kansas State 

 Agricultural College has been reorganized and 

 is now carrying on its work in the college and 

 experiment station under the name of the 

 department of botany and plant pathology. 

 L. E. Melchers, for two years acting head 

 of the department, has been made professor of 

 plant pathology and head of the department. 



E. C. Miller, formerly associate professor, has 

 been promoted to be professor of plant phys- 

 iology. The other members of the department 

 are Assistant Professors W. E. Davis and 



F. C. Gates, Instructors H. H. Haymaker and 

 'NoTiL E. Dalbey, and Assistant Dorothy 

 Cashen. 



The new chair of physical education at the 

 Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas 



has been filled by Dr. W. J. Yoimg, who held 

 the rank of captain in the JSTational Army 

 during the war. Previously he was director 

 of physical education in the University of 

 Maine. Professor D. Scoates has been ap- 

 pointed head of the department of agricultural 

 engineering to succeed Professor R. A. Andree, 

 who has resigned. 



George P. Bacon, of Simmons College, has 

 been appointed to succeed Dr. H. H. Marvin, 

 of Tufts College, who is going to the Uni- 

 versity of Nebraska, as head of the depart- 

 ment of physics. Professor Bacon is to be 

 chairman of the department of physics at 

 Tufts College. 



Dr. R. E. Loving, head of the department of 

 jphysics in Richmond College, has been 

 granted leave of absence for the current ses- 

 ,sion, which he will spend doing special work 

 in Cornell University. C. H. Willis, late of 

 the Signal Corps, A. E. F., and V. E. Ayre, 

 from the Bureau of Standards, have recently 

 been appointed, respectively, acting professor 

 and asistant professor in the department. 



Lieutenant Horace A. Holaday, Sanitary 

 .Corps, nutrition officer at the port of em- 

 barkation at New Port ISTews, Va., formerly 

 .assistant professor of chemistry at the Uni- 

 (Versity of Idaho, has been appointed professor 

 ,of physiological chemistry and head of the 

 /division of food and physiological chemistry 

 at ISTorth Dakota Agricultural College. 



Ralph J. Gilmore, Ph.D. (Cornell), of 

 Huron College, has been appointed head of the 

 department of biology of Colorado College, 

 .succeeding Dr. E. 0. Schneider, who becomes 

 head of the department of biology at Connecti- 

 fiut Wesleyan College. 



I Dr. John L. Sheldon, who has had charge 

 pf the work in botany and bacteriology in the 

 West Virginia University for the past sixteen 

 years, has resigned. The university has also 

 lost recently the heads of the departments of 

 animal husbandry, agronomy, horticulture, 

 public speaking and philosophy. 



Dr. J. G. FitzGerald, associate professor of 

 hygiene. University of Toronto, and director of 

 the Connaught Antitoxin Laboratories in the 



