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It is announced tliat Dr. J. Eodriguez Car- 

 racido, the chemist and president of the Uni- 

 versity of Madrid, is a member of a Spanish 

 delegation leaving soon for the United States. 



Captain Caffe, formerly of the Royal Air 

 Force, left Winnipeg, Manhattan, in an air- 

 plane on October 31, to attempt the rescue of 

 J. B. Tirrell, the geologist and mining engi- 

 neer, reported to be " frozen in " and without 

 supplies in the Rice Lake district. Attempts 

 made to reach Mr. Tirrell by boats have been 

 unsuccessful. 



Sir Bertram Windle, P.R.S., in his annual 

 report to the governing body of University 

 College, Cork, announces that his resignation 

 of the presidency of the college will shortly 

 take effect. He has accepted an invitation 

 from St. Michael's College in the University 

 of Toronto to deliver a course of lectures on 

 " Science in relation to the scholastic philos- 

 ophy " during the first three months of next 

 year. 



Dr. R. H. a. Plimmer, reader in physiolog- 

 ical chemistry, University College, London, 

 has been appointed head of the biochemical de- 

 partment of Craibstone Animal Nutrition Re- 

 search Institute, which is under the direction 

 of Aberdeen University and the North of 

 Scotland College of Agriculture. 

 ; Dr. Donald W. Davis, Ph.D., has returned 

 to his position as professor of biology at Wil- 

 liam and Mary College, Williamsburg, Va. He 

 spent the last three months of his stay over- 

 seas in research work in genetics at the John 

 Inn.es Horticultural Institution. 



Professor Georges E. Dreyee, of Oxford 

 University, delivered the first lecture at West- 

 em Reserve University School of Medicine on 

 the H. M. Hanna Lecture Fund, on October 

 27, the subject being "Vital capacity and 

 physical fitness." 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL 

 NEWS 



It is planned to establish a post-graduate 

 school in medicine in Western Reserve Uni- 

 versity, Cleveland, Ohio. The department is 

 intended to offer opportunities for further 



stiidy of practising physicians who desire to 

 acquaint themselves with current medical and 

 surgical investigation. The course will be- 

 gin next June, and is being arranged by a 

 committee of three members of the faculty of 

 the school of medicine. There will be short, 

 intensive courses, without degrees, and a 

 longer course, which will lead to the degree 

 of A.M. in medicine. The latter is especially 

 designed for regular students who may wish 

 to continue their study before taking up their 

 practise. It will be in connection with the 

 establishment of several teaching fellowships. 



Lloyd's Register of Shipping has presented 

 £10,000 to the fund which is being raised to 

 establish a Degree in Commerce at the Uni- 

 versity of London. 



In the To-wme Scientific School of the 

 University of Pennsylvania, Dr. Milo S. 

 Ketchum, has been made professor of civil 

 engineering, he filling the post made vacant 

 by the death of the late Dr. Edgar Marburg. 

 He brings with him as assistant professor Dr. 

 Clarence L. Eckel, from the University of 

 Colorado. This department loses Dr. William 

 Easby, Jr., professor of municipal engineer- 

 ing and Charles L. Warwick, assistant pro- 

 fessor of structural engineering. 



Dr. a. G. Hogan has left Kansas State 

 Agricultural College to take the chair of 

 biochemistry in the medical school of the 

 University of Alabama, at Mobile. He will 

 be succeeded at the Kansas college by Dr. 

 J. S. Hughes. 



Paul Emerson, Ph. D. (Iowa State), has 

 resigned as associate bacteriologist at the 

 Idaho Agricultural Experiment Station to 

 accept the position of assistant professor of 

 soils and assistant chief in soil bacteriology at 

 Iowa State College. In that institute H. W. 

 Johnson, M.S., has been transferred from his 

 position of assistant in soil bacteriology to 

 that of associate professor of soils and assist- 

 ant chief in soil chemistry in humus investi- 

 gations. 



Since Fordham Medical School closed the 

 registration in the freshmen and sophomore 

 classes and decided to close in 1921, Dr. Carl 



