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Henns is Professor S. B. Freeborn, also of the 

 University of California and a small group of 

 students. The present intensive investigation 

 follows a general malara-mosquito survey of 

 California which was completed last summer. 



Professor Warren D. Smith, of the Uni- 

 versity of Oregon, has been given leave of ab- 

 sence to spend a year in geological work for 

 the Philippine government, as chief of the 

 Division of Mines of the Bureau of Science at 

 Manila. 



Professor Frank T. McFarland, depart- 

 ment of botany. University of Kentucky, has 

 been granted a leave of absence for the year 

 1920-21. He will spend this summer and next 

 year in study at the University of Wisconsin. 

 While on leave, Professor MoFarland's place 

 will be filled by Mr. E. D. Hull, a graduate of 

 the University of Chicago. 



By action of the convention of the Sigma 

 Xi Society at its meeting in St. Louis, a lim- 

 ited charter was granted to the University of 

 North Dakota. The installation exercises of 

 this chapter were recently held. Dean Lauder 

 W. Jones, of the University of Minnesota, pre- 

 siding. These exercises consisted in the for- 

 mal installation of the chapter on the evening 

 of June 2, followed by the initiation of four 

 active members elected from the faculty, and 

 five associate members from the graduates and 

 the senior class. The exercises were followed 

 by a banquet. On the morning of June 3, 

 Dean Jones addressed the ujiiversity convoca- 

 tion on the subject of " Science and industry." 

 A ftdler account of the proceedings will ap- 

 pear later in the Sigma Xi Quarterly. 



Dr. Ira Rem sen, formerly president of 

 Johns Hopkins University, delivered the com- 

 mencement address at West Virginia Univer- 

 sity on Jime 15. His subject was " This is 

 the Age of Science." After the commence- 

 ment exercises Dr. Eemsen was entertained 

 by the members of the West Virginia Alumni 

 Association of Johns Hopkins, six of whom 

 are heads of departments in the state imi- 

 versity. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL 

 NEWS 



Cornell Untversitt has received an anony- 

 mous gift from a professor and his wife of a 

 trust fund for an institute of pure and ap- 

 plied mathematics. The gift amoimts to 

 $50,000 and is to be held in trust for a hun- 

 dred years and allowed to accumulate. 



Wallace W. Atwood, professor of physi- 

 ography at Harvard University, has been ap- 

 pointed President of Clark University, suc- 

 ceeding President Gr. Stanley Hall, of the 

 university, and President Edmund C. San- 

 ford, of the college. Dr. Hall, who has been 

 president of the University and professor of 

 psychology for thirty-two years reached his 

 seventy-fourth birthday on February 1. 



Hector James Hughes, professor of civil 

 engineering and director of the Harvard 

 Engineering Camp, has been chosen dean of 

 the Harvard Engineering School to take the 

 place left vacant by the retirement of Dean 

 Comfort Avery Adams. 



W. H. Chandler, professor in pomology at 

 the New York State College of Agriculture, 

 has been appointed vice-director of research at 

 the Cornell University Agricultural Experi- 

 ment Station. Professor Chandler has been 

 at the college as professor in research in 

 IK)mology since 1913. 



Dr. Norman McDowell Grier has been 

 appointed professor of biology at Washington 

 and Jefferson College to succeed Dr. Edwin 

 Linton, who has retired under the provisions 

 of the Carnegie Foimdation. 



Dr. Arthur W. Haupt, formerly professor 

 of biology at Carthage College, Carthage, Ul., 

 has been elected to the chair of biology at 

 Saint Lawrence University, Canton, N. Y. 



The foUowing changes have been made in 

 the department of medical zoology of the school 

 of hygiene and public health of the Johns 

 Hopkins University. New appointments: Dr. 

 Chas. E. Simon, lecturer in medical zoology; 

 Mr. D. L. Augustine, assistant in hekninthol- 

 ogy; Dr. W. H. Taliaferro, from instructor to 

 associate in protozoology; Dr. F. M. Eoot, 



