December 19, 1919] 



SCIENCE 



567 



.Garden. The report is signed by Ernest B. 

 Dane, of Boston, chairman of the committee; 

 Oakes Ames, '98, director of the Botanic Gar- 

 den; Edwin F. Atkins; George B. Dorr; Ar- 

 thur F. Estabrook ; W. Cameron Forbes ; Ei ch- 

 ard M. Saltonstall; E. V. R. Thayer; Edwin 

 S. Webster. The Botanic Garden is now situ- 

 ated at the corner of Garden and Linnean 

 Streets and contains more than 5,000 species of 

 flowering plants, which are cultivated for edu- 

 cational and scientific purposes. Dr. Asa 

 Gray was its director from 1842 to 1872. 



The Journal of the American Medical Asso- 

 ciation states that the board of directors of 

 the University of Cincinnati on September 9, 

 is said to have rejected the appointments of 

 the faculty of the industrial medicine and 

 public health department made by Dr. Carey 

 P. McCord. This department is not directly 

 associated with the University of Cincinnati, 

 although the board of directors is authorized 

 to make appointments. The financing of the 

 department is by subscription of business men 

 of Cincinnati. 



There has been established at Paris an 

 optical institute that will work in the interest 

 of the manufacturers of opticians' supplies; 

 it. will not be conducted for commercial profit 

 but solely for the purpose of advancing optical 

 science and the optical industries for the 

 common welfare. The forms of activity of 

 this new scientific institute will be : (1) a 

 training school of optics; (2) a laboratory of 

 research and experiment, and (3) a profes- 

 sional school for advanced study. The school 

 of optics will train experts in the manufac- 

 ture of optical goods. M. C. Fabry, at present 

 professor of general physics at the Faculte 

 des sciences de Marseilles, has been selected as 

 the head of the new institution. M. Lueien 

 Poincare, rector of the University of Paris, 

 has evinced an especial interest in the insti- 

 tute and has expressed his intention of re- 

 questing a professional chair of optics at the 

 Sorbonne. The laboratories will comprise a 

 research department in which the instructors 

 of the school may conduct their theoretical 

 and practical researches with relation to the 

 various kinds of glass, optical instruments 



and opticians' accessories, and a department 

 for the study of manufactured products or any 

 matters of importance submitted for exami- 

 nation by the institute. These laboratories 

 will serve likewise for the training of stu- 

 dents. The purpose of the professional school 

 will be to train workers in glass, opticians and 

 mechanicians who shall be preeminently 

 qualified. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL 

 NEWS 



Washington University Medical School, 

 St. Louis, has received $300,000 to endow its 

 department of pharmacology. Half of this 

 sum was given by the General Education 

 Board and the other half was raised by the 

 medical school. 



Mr. p. a. Molteno and his wife have 

 offered the sum of £30,000 to the University 

 of Cambridge, for the erection and mainten- 

 ance of a suitable building, to be used as an 

 institute for parasitological research in con- 

 nection with the department of Professor G. 

 H. F. JSTuttall. 



Assistant Professor Champion Herbert 

 Mathewson has been elected professor of 

 metallurgy and metallography in the Sheffield 

 Scientific School of Yale University. 



Dr. Harry A. Curtis has resigned his 

 position at the Nitrogen Eesearch Laboratory 

 in order to accept a professorship in chemistry 

 at ISTorthwestern University, Evanston, Ul. 



Israel S. Kleiner, Ph.D., formerly associate 

 in physiology and pharmacology at the Rocke- 

 feller Institute for Medical Research, has been 

 appointed professor and head of the depart- 

 ment of physiological chemistry at the New 

 York Homoeopathic Medical College and 

 Flower Hospital, New York City. 



Dr. J. G. FitzGerald has been appointed 

 professor of hygiene at the University of 

 Toronto, to succeed Dr. John A. Amyst, who 

 has been appointed deputy minister of health 

 in the Federal Department of Health, Ottawa. 



Dr. J. Proudman has been appointed pro- 

 fessor of applied mathematics in the Univer- 

 sity of Liverpool. 



