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SCIENCE 



[N. S. Vol. L. No. 1301 



The Division of Industrial Research of the 

 National Eesearcli Council is arranging for 

 the formation of a cooperative association to 

 plan and support fundamental researches in 

 alloys. Although much valuable work has 

 been done in this field by scattered investiga- 

 tors there is no doubt that a well-planned and 

 coordinated effort by a cooperative associa- 

 tion working under the general guidance of 

 the National Research Council and composed 

 of specialists representing both the manu- 

 facturers and the more extensive users of 

 alloys can produce additional results of great 

 importance. The success of other industries 

 which have sujiported research on a coopera- 

 tive plan, such as has been done by the Na- 

 tional Canners' Association and the Malleable 

 Iron Manufacturers, is evidence of this. It 

 is planned to create a special scientific atafi 

 composed of a director and assistant director 

 of research and a group of scientific investi- 

 gators and technical experts who shall give 

 their whole time to the work. To finance the 

 organization each member of the cooperative 

 association will pay $1,000 a year, and all 

 contributing members, who may be either 

 alloy manufacturing or using individuals, 

 firms or companies are to benefit alike by the 

 results of the researches. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL 

 NEWS 



McCoy Hall and others of the old build- 

 ings of the Johns Hopkins University were 

 destroyed by fire on the night of November 

 2Y. The loss is covered by insurance, but valu- 

 able libraries and records of the school of hy- 

 giene and public health, which occupied the 

 second floor of McCoy Hall, were destroyed 

 with irreparable loss. 



The main buildings of the University of 

 Montreal, known as Laval University, contain- 

 ing the medical department, were destroyed by 

 fire on November 22. The loss is estimated at 

 $400,000, which is covered by insurance. 



Br an intensive campaign lasting less than 

 a week the University of Rochester has raised 

 $800,000 in the city of Rochester alone toward 



an endowment fund of one million dollars, the 

 interest from which is to be used to increase 

 professors' salaries. Mr. George Eastman, 

 head of the Eastman Kodak Company, sub- 

 scribed $100,000, the Bausch & Lomb Optical 

 Company gave $75,000 and many other houses 

 sums of lesser amount. 



Dr. E. H. Kennaed has been appointed as- 

 sistant professor of physics at Cornell Uni- 

 versity. 



Captain Esbon T. Titus, formerly chief 

 chemist for Nitrate Plant No. 1, Sheffield, Ala., 

 has been appointed assistant professor of chem- 

 istry at the University of Wisconsin. 



Francis Marsh Baldwin, Ph.D. (Elinois), 

 assistant professor of zoology at Iowa State 

 College for the past two years, has been raised 

 to the rank of associate professor and has 

 charge of the work in human physiology. 

 Ralph L. Parker, M.S. (Brown), who served 

 overseas for eleven months, is associated with 

 Dr. Baldwin as an instructor. 



Stuart Hobbs Sims, associate professor in 

 the department of mechanics and hydraulics 

 at the University of Iowa, will succeed C. B. 

 MeCullough as head of the department of civil 

 engineering at the Oregon Agricultural Col- 

 lege. Mr. MeCullough has been appointed 

 state highway bridge engineer for Oregon. 



The Yale School of Forestry has received 

 from Mrs. Claire K. Williams, of Lakeville, 

 Conn., her interest in a pension fund of ten 

 thousand dollars. This fund is given as a 

 memorial to her son, Herbert C. Williams, 

 who graduated at the School of Forestry as a 

 loan for needy students. 



DISCUSSION AND CORRESPONDENCE 



AN APPEAL 



During the night of November 27 fire com- 

 pletely destroyed McCoy Hall, formerly the 

 administration building of the Johns Hopkins 

 University, and immediately occupied by the 

 Federated Charity Organization of the City 

 of Baltimore, and certain departments of the 



