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SCIENCE 



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throughout every grade and department of the 

 military establishment. 



Arthur D. Little, Inc., chemists and engi- 

 neers, Cambridge, Mass., through its Informa- 

 tion Department, is planning a series of Bib- 

 liographic Studies, to be circulated among the 

 public, university and special libraries of the 

 United States, and the firms and individuals 

 interested in the various studies. Those in 

 course of preparation are: Chemical Warfare; 

 AJcohol from Waste Sulfite Liquors; In- 

 dustrial Research; The Automobile and Trac- 

 tor at the Front; The Electric Furnace; In- 

 dustrial Laboratories; Molasses; The Chem- 

 ical Action of Light; Woods and Fibers used 

 as Paper Making Materials. Copies of the 

 first three of them are ready and may be had 

 upon request. 



The Eev. Dr. William T. Manning, rector 

 of Trinity Parish, New York, offered a resolu- 

 tion in the House of Deputies of the Episcopal 

 Church at the recent general convention in 

 Detroit, providing for the appointment of a 

 committee of three bishops, three presbyters, 

 and three laymen " to consider the fuller rec- 

 ognition of the ministry of healing in the 

 Church and the need of its revival under 

 proper sanctions and safeguards." The reso- 

 lution was unanimously adopted and sent to 

 the House of Bishops for concurrence. Dr. 

 Manning, vrho is a trustee of Columbia Uni- 

 versity, has been interested in an English 

 faith healer who has held clinics at Trinity 

 Church. 



In connection with the statement issued by 

 the United States Public Health Service in 

 regard to the probable return of the influenza 

 epidemic this year, it is announced that the 

 laboratories of Harvard University have been 

 chosen to conduct exhaustive research into the 

 causes, eilects and complications of the dis- 

 ease, together with their prevention and cure. 

 Dean David L. Edsall, of the Harvard Med- 

 ical School announces that a large corporation 

 which suffered losses as a result of the epi- 

 demic last year has given $50,000, the greater 

 portion of which will be used by Dr. Milton 

 Joseph Rosenau, professor of preventive medi- 

 cine and hygiene of the Harvard Medical 



School and a corps of assistants to carry on 

 the exhaustive studies and research to dis- 

 cover some means to prevent future outbreaks 

 of the epidemic. 



It is stated in Nature that under the will 

 of the late Dr. Joseph Wiglesworth, his ornith- 

 ological library passes by bequest to the Uni- 

 versity of Bristol. This library of more than 

 1,000 volumes, including finely-bound copies of 

 the works of Gould, Seebohm, Dresser, Lil- 

 ford, Levaillant and other leading authorities, 

 is probably one of the best in England. It will 

 be housed in a separate room in the new uni- 

 versity buildings, and will be kept up to date. 

 Dr. Wiglesworth gave the residue of his es- 

 tate to the university after his widow's "death 

 for the furnishing and maintenance of this 

 special library. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL 

 NEWS 



At the recent meeting of the Yale Corpor- 

 ation several gifts were annoimced. Mr. 

 Austin C. Dunham, of Hartford, has given 

 $64,000 to cover the amount advanced by the 

 Sheffield trustees in constructing the electrical 

 engineering building of the Sheffield Scientific 

 School. The building is to be known here- 

 after as the Dunham Laboratory of Electrical 

 Engineering. By the death of the widow of 

 Dr. Levi Shoemaker, of Wilkes-Barre, property 

 valued at about $200,000 goes to the univer- 

 sity for the general endowment of the School 

 of Medicine. A fund of $6,000 has been re- 

 ceived from Edith Meacham Hitchcock and 

 Standish Meacham of Cincinnati, to establish 

 a scholarship in the Sheffield Scientific School 

 in memory of Robert Douglas Meacham of the 

 class of 1907 of the Scientific School. 



The sum of five thousand dollars from a 

 "friend of the university" has been received 

 by the University of California for the sup- 

 port of special research work in the depart- 

 ment of paleontology during the year 1920. 



Dr. Roswell P. Angier, professor of psy- 

 chology at Yale University, has been appointed 

 to the newly established deanship of the com- 

 mon freshman year. 



