July 23, 1920] 



SCIENCE 



81 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL 



NEWS 



Ohio State University has received a gift 

 of $400,000 by Charles F. Kettering, a 

 trustee of the university, for medical research 

 in connection with the college of homeopathy. 

 W. A. Clark, Jr., of Butte, Montana, has 

 presented a fund of $4,000 to the geological 

 department of the University of Wisconsin 

 for the purchase of equipment for exjjeri- 

 mental work in structural geology. 



The University of Wisconsin has obtained 

 legal authority to oiler a complete four year 

 medical course. 



Dr. Charles B. Tulton, of Cleveland Ohio, 

 has been appointed a director of the School 

 of Mines and Metallurgy, Eolla, Mo. 



Dr. Emery E. Hayhurst, professor of 

 hygiene at Ohio State University, has been 

 made head of the department of Public Health 

 and Sanitation and Mrs. Norma Selbert, 

 formerly of the University of Missouri, has 

 been appointed assistant professor of public 

 health nursing. 



Dr. W. Thurber Fales, of Maiden, Mass., 

 has been appointed instructor in biology and 

 public health in the medical school of the 

 Johns Hopkins University. 



Dr. V. J. Harding, associate-professor of 

 biological and physiological chemistry at Mc- 

 Gill University, has been appointed professor 

 of pathological chemistry in the University 

 of Toronto. 



Dr. Dowell Young, of Cornell University, 

 has been appointed professor of biology in 

 Dalhousie University, Halifax, in place of 

 Professor C. Moore, resigned. 



At the University of Leeds Dr. W. E. S. 

 Turner has been appointed professor of glass 

 technology, Mr. J. Husband professor of civil 

 engineering and Dr. Mellanby professor of 

 pharmacology. 



DISCUSSION AND CORRESPONDENCE 



THE RESCUED FUR SEAL INDUSTRY 



At the St. Louis -fur auction held on Feb- 

 ruary 2, 1920, there were sold for the United 



States government 9,100 skins of fur seals, the 

 net proceeds of which were $1,182,905, an aver- 

 age of $140.98 per skin. 



That sale marks an important period in the 

 history of the most practical and financially 

 responsive wild life conservation movement 

 thus far consummated in the United States. 

 In 1911 one of the stakes set by the advocates 

 of the five-year close season was a return to a 

 revenue of at least " $1,000,000 per year," and 

 now it is no exaggeration to say that the re- 

 sults of the long close season that began in 

 1912 and ended in 1917 have been everything 

 that the close-season advocates claimed that 

 they would be. 



The steady and very rapid increase in the 

 fur seal population of the Pribilof Islands dur- 

 ing their five years of immunity from com- 

 mercial slaughter is revealed by the following 

 ofiicial census figures as made by the United 

 States Department of Commerce, and kindly 

 furnished by Secretary Alexander. 



In 1912 there were 215,738 seals of all ages 



In 1913 there were 268,305 seals of all ages. 



In 1914 there were 294,687 seals of all ages 



In 1915 there were 363,872 seals of all ages 



In 1916 there were 417,281 seals of all ages 



In 1917 there were 468,692 seals of all ages 



In 1918 there were 496,432 seals of all ages 



In 1919 there were 530,237 seals of all ages 



The total number of fur seals killed for their 

 skins since the open season began have been 

 as follows: 



In 1918 the number was 34,890. 

 In 1919 the number was 27,821. 



The prices realized at the St. Louis fur auc- 

 tions on the sale of fur seal skins are revealed 

 by these figures: 



In 1918 there were sold 8,100 skins for 

 $375,385. Average, $46.34 per skin. In 1919 

 there were sold 19,157 skins for $1,501,603. 

 Average, $78.38 per skin. In 1920 there were 

 sold 9,100 skins for $1,282,905. Average, 

 $140.98 per skin. If the average price of 

 $140.98 at which the lot of 9,100 skins sold on 

 February 2, 1920, should hold for the entire 



