October 31, 1919] 



SCIENCE 



411 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL 

 NEWS 



The late Sir Samuel McCaughey has be- 

 queathed $2,000,000 to the University of 

 Sydney and $1,250,000 to the University of 

 Brisbane. 



Dr. G. McPhail Smith, formerly of the 

 University of Illinois, has been appointed 

 head of the inorganic division of chemistry 

 at the University of Washington, Seattle. 



Dr. Egbert Gesell, of the department of 

 physiology in the Washington University 

 Medical School, St. Louis, has been appointed 

 professor of physiology in the University of 

 California. 



Dr. H. I. Cole, who served overseas as 

 captain in the U. S. Chemical Warfare 

 Service, and was lately associated with the 

 Arthur D. Little Corporation as chemical 

 mieroscopist, has accepted the appointment 

 of professor of chemistry at the University 

 of Oregon during the absence of Professor 

 Stafford who will be engaged during the 

 coming year in private research in the east. 



Dr. Hiram Byrd, formerly scientific secre- 

 tary of the State Board of Health, of Florida, 

 has accepted the directorship of the Depart- 

 ment of Hygiene in the University and the 

 Interdepartmental Board of Social Hygiene. 



Professor Bohumil Shimek, head of the 

 department of botany in the State University 

 of Iowa, requested last spring that he be 

 relieved of administrative work and much of 

 his teaching in order that he might con- 

 centrate on his research. Dr. Robert B. 

 Wylie, professor of morphological botany, was 

 then made head of the department. These 

 changes have been effective for the present 

 academic year. 



The following appointments have been 

 made on the Faculty of the Marquette School 

 of Medicine: Fred T. Eogers, Ph.D., formerly 

 assistant professor in the department of 

 physiology. University of Chicago, professor 

 and director of the department of physiology; 

 Otto F. Kampmeyer, Ph.D., formerly con- 

 nected with the University of Illinois, asso- 

 ciate professor of anatomy; Albert J. 



Bruecken, M.D., formerly pathologist and 

 bacteriologist in Mercy Hospital, Pittsburgh, 

 and demonstrator of pathology at the Uni- 

 versity of Pittsburgh, junior professor of 

 bacteriology; S. C. Henn, Jr., M.S., formerly 

 fellow in the department of physiology. Uni- 

 versity of Chicago, instructor of physiology, 

 and John Tilleman, A.B., assistant, in the 

 department of pathology. 



B. M. Jones, Emmanuel College, has been 

 elected to the Francis Mond professorship of 

 Aeronautical Engineering at the University 

 of Cambridge, founded by Mr. Emile Mond 

 in memory of his son, who was killed in the 

 war. Mr. Jones obtained honors in the 

 mechanical sciences Tripos of 1909, and from 

 1919 to 1912 he was employed on aeronautical 

 research at the ISTational Physical Laboratory. 

 During the war he became assistant controller 

 of experiment and research in the Armament 

 Experimental Station with the rank of lieu- 

 tenant-colonel. 



DISCUSSION AND CORRESPONDENCE 



uniformity in symbols 



The hapless student beginning work in 

 aerography and aeronautical engineering, to- 

 day, may well sympathize with the writer in 

 Science,^ who two years ago expressed the 

 wish that some miiform set of symbols might 

 be used. He spoke as a sorely tired reader 

 of recent contributions in meteorology, astron- 

 omy and geodesy. His closing appeal was 

 "Don't let details smother uniformity. Make 

 a start." 



Up to the present time the number of those 

 starting is not impressive, and although we 

 do not want to rush in where angels ( ?) fear 

 to tread, we venture now to offer a tentative 

 set of symbols for the guidance of those who 

 contemplate work in aerography and allied 

 subjects. 



That the perplexity is a real one will appear 

 when we mention that in a recent memoir on 

 dynamic meteorology the letter 7 has three 

 different meanings, viz : ratio of specific heats, 

 gravity and temperature gradient. Some 



1 Dr. Otto Klotz, Science, Vol. XL VI., No. 1189, 

 p. 360, October 12, 1917. 



