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hopitaux de Paris to confer 3,000 francs every 

 third year on the best work on tlie ethical and 

 social aspects of the medical profession, pub- 

 lished or presented during the preceding years, 

 or for the best competing articles presented on 

 a special topic. The first prize will he awarded 

 in December, 1923, and a topic has been se- 

 lected for this icompetition, namely, " A sta- 

 tistical and critical study of the French civil- 

 ian and military medical and surgical role 

 during the war, 1914^1918, and the resulting 

 consequences for physicians and conclusions 

 for the future." 



. Professor and Mrs. Jeremiah W. Jenks 

 have deeded property on the east shore of 

 ,Cayuga Lake to Cornell University for the use 

 of the department of biology. Boats, kept in 

 the boathouse which comes with the property, 

 will be available for collecting the specimens 

 in which the end of the lake and the marshes 

 mear it abound. 



The zoology department of the University 

 of Texas is the recipient of a gift of $500 from 

 Mr. H. A. Wroe, member of the board of re- 

 gents for the study of the physiology of re- 

 production in the opossum under Professor 

 -Carl Hartman. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL 

 NEWS 



A COLLEGE of engineering has been estab- 

 lished at Cornell University to consist of the 

 Sibley School of Mechanical Engineering, the 

 School of Civil Engineering, and the School of 

 Electrical Engineering. Professor Dexter S. 

 Kimball has been appointed dean of the newly 

 created engineering college and as directors of 

 the work in the three schools, Herman Died- 

 erichs, mechanical engineering; Fred Asa 

 Barnes, civil engineering, and Alexander M. 

 Gray, electrical engineering have been ap- 

 jwinted. Dean A. W. Smith, who has for 

 many years had charge of Sibley College, and 

 who is now acting president of the university, 

 and Dean E. E. Haskell of the present college 

 of civil engineering, have sabbatical leave next 

 term, and retire from active service in June 

 of this year. 



The resignation of Professor Eussell H. 

 Chittenden, of Tale University, from the 

 chairmanship of the department of physiology, 

 physiological chemistry and bacteriology has 

 been accepted, and Professor Lafayette B. 

 Mendel has been appointed his successor. 



Dr. H. B. Latimer, who has been in charge 

 of the courses in anatomy in the department 

 of zoology of the University of Nebraska, 

 has been granted a leave of absence for the 

 current year to carry on research in anatomy 

 at the University of Minnesota. His work is 

 being taken by Mr. Daniel S. Brazda. Dr. E. 

 B. Powers has also been added to the staff 

 of the department taking the field of animal 

 ecology. 



Dr. C. B. Clevenger has resigned an in- 

 struetorship in the department of chemistry. 

 University of Wisconsin, to accept a professor- 

 ship of agricultural chemistry and head of 

 the department of chemistry of the Manitoba 

 Agricultural College. 



Dr. Henry S. Houghton, a graduate of 

 Ohio State University and the Johns Hopkins 

 Medical School, who has passed the last fifteen 

 years in China, has been appointed director 

 of the Peking Union Medical College. 



DISCUSSION AND CORRESPONDENCE 



NATURAL AREAS AND BIOLOGICAL SCIENCE 



"With the increasing activities in biological 

 science there has been a correspondingly in- 

 creased demand for the preservation of areas 

 on which the fauna and flora may be found 

 imdisturbed by outside agencies. Workers in 

 the various lines of ecology and genetics are 

 particularly interested in these natural areas; 

 the Ecological Society, several State Acad- 

 emies of Science, and other scientific organi- 

 zations, are urging the reservation of areas 

 suitable for study. Laboratory experiments 

 under controlled conditions, however essential, 

 can not replace field observation. In fact, the 

 greater the amoimt of laboratory experimen- 

 tation, the greater the need of natural areas — 

 for laboratory work and field studies must go 

 hand in hand and supplement each other; 

 neither is sufficient unto itself. 



