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genera and subgenera. It is ricli in the little- 

 known regions of Alabama and other places 

 in the southern states, and contains extensive 

 material from Guatemala, Venezuela, Mexico, 

 and other parts of Central and South Amer- 

 ica. Mr. Hinkley was a careful collector and 

 the material includes valuable data as to place 

 and habitat. It is the most valuaible scientific 

 collection received by the university in many 

 years. The estate of the late Dr. W. A. ISTason, 

 of Algonquin, lU., has presented Dr. ITason's 

 collections to the museum. These consist of 

 about 50,000 insects, mostly American and 

 largely Illinois, 10,000 land, fresh water, and 

 marine mollusks, and about 2,000 plants. 



Syracuse University has come into posses- 

 sion, by gift, of the personal herbarium of 

 Gertrude Norton, a native of Syracuse, and 

 a former student in Syracuse University. 

 Miss Norton taught for some years in Salt 

 Lake City, Utah, where she died in 1919. 

 This herbarium embraces a collection of 

 about one thousand specimens of the rare or 

 more characteristic plants of Utah and of the 

 Tlathead region of Montana. 



The state of Illinois has printed for the 

 Natural History Survey of the state a second 

 edition of a report by S. A. Forbes and E. E. 

 Eichardson on the fishes of Illinois, the 

 original edition, published in 1908, having 

 been out of print for several years. This re- 

 port contains an account of the topography 

 and hydrography of Illinois, a chapter on 

 the disti-ibution of Ulinois fishes within the 

 state and throughout the country, and full 

 descriptions and many illustrations of the 150 

 species of fishes found in Illinois, with ac- 

 counts of their distribution, habits, food, and 

 uses so far as these are known. It is illus- 

 trated by 76 black and white figures and 

 colored plates of 68 species. The main re- 

 port of 492 pages is accompanied by an atlas 

 of 102 maps of the state showing its stream 

 systems, its glacial geology, the localities 

 from which collections of fishes have been 

 made by the Natural History Survey, and 

 those from which each of the 98 more abun- 

 dant species has been taken. A limited 



number of the edition is reserved for free 

 distribution to libraries, educational institu- 

 tions and specialists who have not received 

 the first edition, and the remainder are offered 

 in single copies to institutions and individuals 

 at the cost of the reprint. 



The death of Dr. John Iridelle Dillard 

 Hinds is announced, at the age of seventy- 

 three years. Dr. Hinds was one of the found- 

 ers of the American Chemical Society. He 

 was bom in North Carolina, educated in the 

 preparatory schools of Arkansas, was for over 

 forty years professor of chemistry in Cumber- 

 land University, the University of Nashville 

 and Peabody Collie. At the time of his death 

 he was chemist for the Geological Survey of 

 Tennessee. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL 

 NEWS 



Dr. Ernest Fox Nichols, for the past year 

 director of physical research at the Nela Park 

 Laboratory, Cleveland, recently professor of 

 physics at Colgate, Dartmouth, Columbia and 

 Tale and president of Dartmouth College, has 

 been elected president of the Massachusetts 

 Institute of Technology, to succeed the late 

 Richard C. Maelaurin. 



George Hoyt Whipple, director of the 

 Hooper Foundation at the University of Cali- 

 fornia, has been appointed dean of the school 

 of medicine, dentistry and surgery of the Uni- 

 versity of Eochester. 



Professor George H. Parker has been ap- 

 pointed director of the Harvard Zoological 

 Laboratory to succeed Professor E. L. Mark, 

 who will retire from active teaching at the 

 close of the current year with the title of pro- 

 fessor emeritus, after having spent forty-four 

 years in the service' of the university. The 

 new director. Professor Parker, has been asso- 

 ciated with Harvard University since his 

 graduation in 1887, and has held a full pro- 

 fessorship of zoology since 1906. 



Dr. Olof Larsell, associate professor of 

 zoology at Northwestern University, has ae- 



