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[N. S. Vol. LIII. No. 1370 



Professor Douglas Johnson, of Columbia 

 University, addressed the annual open meeting 

 of the Syracuse University chapter of Sigma 

 Xi, March 16, on " The role of geography in 

 world affairs." On March 17, he spoke at Col- 

 gate University on the same subject. 



The Council of the Paris Faculty of Medi- 

 cine, has received a gift of 50,000 francs from 

 Mme. Mathias Duval, widow of the eminent 

 professor of histology. The sum having been 

 given without any conditions as to the manner 

 in which it shall be expended, a committee has 

 been appointed to decide how it can best be 

 employed. 



Plans to broaden the scope of the Gorgas 

 Memorial Institute in Panama into a research 

 and teaching institution of international scope 

 are being developed by the provisional board 

 of directors for the United States. 



Ernest Joseph Lederle, the sanitary engi- 

 neer, died on March 7, at the age of fifty-«ix 

 years. Dr. Lederle wias health commissioner 

 of New York City under Mayor Low and 

 Mayor Gaynor. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL 

 NEWS 



The latest report on the Worcester Poly- 

 technic Institute Endov\'nient Fund indicates 

 pledges of over $900,000 to date. The com- 

 mittee in charge has no doubt that the entire 

 $1,000,000 will be pledged before Commence- 

 ment Day. This is the second million of the 

 $2,000,000 fund undertaken, the fu'st million 

 having already been pledged, partly in the 

 form of scholarship funds given by industrial 

 corporations in Worcester. 



An appropriation by the Oregon legislature 

 of $271,000 has been made for medical work 

 in Portland by the University of Oregon. 



The corporation of Yale University has 

 adopted regulations witli reference to research 

 associates and research fellows. Research as- 

 sociates are to have professorial rank, and 

 research fellows assistant professorial rank. 



The titles are to be given to men of distin- 

 guished attainments who devote most of their 

 time to research rather than to teaching. It 

 was voted " That the title of research asso- 

 ciate should be confined to men of real dis- 

 tinction in research and productive scholar- 

 ship, and that it should carry with it inclusion 

 in the list of ' Professors and other officers of 

 professorial rank,' the object of the position 

 being to attract to the university men of 

 eminence, who usually wish greater freedom 

 in the use of their time for research than pro- 

 fessorial appointments permit." 



Eugene E. HASsmL, S.E., dean of the com- 

 bined colleges of civil and mechanical engi- 

 neering at Cornell University has resigfned. 

 His resignation is to take effect in June of 

 this year after his sabbatic leave, which he is 

 now enjoying. Dean Haskill has been at the 

 head of the college of civil engineering at 

 Cornell since 1905, prior to which he was in 

 charge of the United States geodetic survey 

 of the Great Lakes. Dean Haskill is a grad- 

 uate of Cornell University, class of 1879; his 

 successor. Professor F. A. Barnes, is also a 

 Cornell graduate, having been granted his 

 degree in 1897. 



Dr. Paul Weatherwax, for the past two 

 years associate professor of botany in the Uni- 

 versity of Georgia, has resigned to accept an 

 associate professorship in Indiana University, 

 where he was formerly instructor. 



Professor Irving H. Cameron, for many 

 years professor of surgery in the medical de- 

 partment of the University of Toronto, has 

 relinquished that chair, and Dr. Alexander 

 Primrose has been appointed to succeed him 

 temporarily. 



DISCUSSION AND CORRESPONDENCE 



ARE THE LANCE AND FORT UNION 

 FORMATIONS OF MESOZOIC TIME?i 



To THE Editor of Science : Under the above 

 title Professor Charles Schuchert has recently 

 reviewed in Science (issue of January 14) a 



1 Published with the permission of the director 

 of the XJ. S. Geological Survey. 



