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died of malaria, at Gibraltar, on October 6. 

 Dr. Hopkins was known as an international 

 authority on soils. He bad closed a year's 

 work in reclamation studies of the worn soils 

 of Greece and was on Ms way borne when 

 illness compelled his removal from the 

 steamer. 



The British prime minister has written to 

 Lord Ernie (Mr. E. E. Prothero) a letter on 

 his resignation of the presidency of the Board 

 of Agriculture. Mr. Lloyd George says : " On 

 behalf of the government I wish to thank you 

 for the invaluable services you rendered the 

 country during your remarkable tenure of 

 office. Tour chieftainship at the board 

 marked an epoch in the history of British 

 agriculture. It was the beginning of a de- 

 parture which will soon, not only restore 

 British land cultivation to its past prosperity, 

 but lead it on to even greater heights of 

 achievement. I feel a great pride in the fact 

 that your work was done entirely diu-ing my 

 premiership." 



Preparations are being made for a confer- 

 ence of physiologists at Paris ia July, 1920. 

 The meeting is being organized by representa- 

 tives from Great Britain, Prance and America, 

 and invitations are to be sent to the neutral 

 nations. 



A BILL has recently been passed Dy the 

 Canadian House of Commons creating a Fed- 

 eral Department of Health. The bill provides 

 for a minister of health, and an advisory coun- 

 cil. The authority of the new department will 

 extend to all matters affecting health within 

 the jurisdiction of the Canadian government. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL 

 NEWS 



By the will of the late Richard M. Colgate, 

 Colgate University receives a bequest of $100,- 

 000 to be used for the erection of a dormitory. 

 Mr. Colgate also left $100,000 to Tale for the 

 establishment of a professorship " for the ad- 

 vancement of the intellectual teaching of 

 freshmen students." 



The Bureau of Education has published a 

 circular showing the increase of salaries of col- 

 lege teachers made during the last academic 



year and voted for the present year. Increases 

 of ten per cent., or over for the last year are re- 

 ported by 72 per cent, of the institutions for 

 full professors, 51 per cent, for assistant pro- 

 fessors and 52 per cent, for instructors. Of 

 the institutions which reported an increase of 

 over ten per cent, for the year 1920, 74 per 

 cent, reported increases for full professors, 59 

 per cent, for assistant professors and 46 per 

 cent, for instructors. It is noticeable that 

 many larger institutions do not appear on the 

 list of those which provided increases in 

 salary in either year. . 



Dr. Daniel Eussell Hadgdon, head of the 

 Newark College of Technology, Ifewark, N". J., 

 has been elected president of the Hahnemann 

 College and Medical School, of Chicago. He 

 is the author of works on " General Science," 

 and " Applied Physics." 



E. V. Huntington, associate professor of 

 mathematics in Harvard University, has been 

 promoted to a full professorship in mechanics. 

 His teaching activities will be divided as here- 

 tofore between the division of mathematics 

 and the division of engineering. 



Paul B. Sears has accepted an assistant pro- 

 fessorship of botany in the University of Ne- 

 braska and has begun his work there. He was 

 formerly an instructor in the Ohio State Uni- 

 versity and during the war was a lieutenant 

 in aviation. Previously he had been assistant 

 in botany in the University of Nebraska. 



Dr. a. E. C. Haas has been appointed asso- 

 ciate professor of plant physiology in the Uni- 

 versity of California, Graduate School of 

 Tropical Agriculture and at the Citrus Ex- 

 periment Station at Eiverside. He is engaged 

 chiefly with studies in plant nutrition. 



Dr. B. W. Wells, formerly of the Univer- 

 sity of Arkansas, has taken charge of the 

 department of botany in the North Carolina 

 State College. Mr. I. V. Shunk, of the Uni- 

 versity of West Virginia, has been appointed 

 instructor in the same department. 



Peofessoe Newland F. Smith, of Centre 

 College, Danville, Ivy., has accepted a position 

 as head of the department of physics in The 

 Citadel, the Military College of South Caro- 

 lina, at Charleston. He will commence his 



