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crucible to the Society of Chemical Industry; 

 and his electric telephone by Reis to the In- 

 stitution of Electrical Engineers. The residue 

 of the property is to be divided into five parts, 

 four of which are to go to the Eoyal Society 

 and one to the Society of Chemical Industry, 

 the wish being expressed that the fund shall 

 be kept separate from the funds of the society 

 the capital to be kept intact, and the whole of 

 the income expended in the furtherance of 

 scientific research and other scientific objects, 

 and that no part thereof shall be applied for 

 charitable objects, as the granting of pensions 

 and the like. 



The Journal of the American Medical As- 

 sociation states that what is reported as the 

 largest medical conference ever assembled in 

 the capital of China was held February 21-28, 

 of the present year. Over 300 delegates were 

 present, including 210 medical missionaries. 

 A message from the minister of education of 

 China was read which stated the following as 

 the educational policy for the immediate 

 future in that country: (1) To establish new 

 medical schools as soon as conditions will 

 allow on the basis of one medical school for 

 each province. (2) To improve and extend 

 such schools as were already established. (3) 

 To encourage the study of medicine and to 

 maintain for the scientifically trained doctors 

 a high social status aiming at a sufficient 

 number for this important profession. (4) 

 To cause to be organized at proper localities 

 such institutions or facilities of investigation 

 as will aid specialists in their own research 

 work. (5) To regulate the practise of doctors 

 trained in the traditional way with a view to 

 the unification of standards required of med- 

 ical practitioners. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL 

 NEWS 



It is planned to establish eight new pro- 

 fessorships at Cornell University to com- 

 memorate the war services of 7,800 Cornell 

 men. 



Dr. H. E. Kraybill, of the Bureau of Plant 

 Industry, has been appointed professor of agri- 



cultural chemistry and head of the department 

 of chemistry of the New Hampshire State 

 College. 



P. "W. Whiting, in charge of biology at 

 Pranklin and Marshall College, Lancaster, Pa., 

 has resigned to accept a position at St. Steph- 

 en's College, Annandale-on-Hudson, N. T. 



Professor C. F. Curtis Riley has been pro- 

 moted to a full professorship in the department 

 of forest zoology, Syracuse University. 



John T. Metcalf, Ph.D. (Tale, '13), psycho- 

 logical examiner with the Illinois Department 

 of Public Welfare, has been appointed assist- 

 ant professor of psychology in George Wash- 

 ington University. 



Dr. L. V. King has been appointed Mac- 

 donald professor of physics at the Macdonald 

 Physics Building, McGill University, from 

 which he received his bachelor's degree in 1905. 

 The chair to which Dr. King has been pro- 

 moted has been held in succession by Professor 

 H. L. Oallendar, Professor, now Sir Ernest 

 Rutherford, Dr. H. T. Barnes, Professor H. A. 

 Wilson, and by the present director. Dr. A. S. 

 Eve. 



At the University of Sheffield, Dr. W. E. S. 

 Turner has been appointed professor of glass 

 technology, Mr. J. Husband professor of civil 

 engineering. Dr. Mellanby professor of pharma- 

 cology. 



DISCUSSION AND CORRESPONDENCE 



GENERA AND SUPERGENERA 



To THE Editor of Science: I sympathize 

 with Dr. Witmer Stone (Science, IST. S., 51: 

 42Y, 1920) in his wish to preserve in generic 

 names an expression of taxonomic relation- 

 ships. Dr. Stone advocates the adoption of 

 " an arbitrary set of genera de convenience so 

 far as nomenclature is concerned and use 

 subgeneric terms when we desire to call 

 attention to more refined phylogenetic groups." 

 I would call attention to the results of a 

 practical application of this system. If I 

 understand the proposed system correctly the 

 genera for general use would stand toward 

 the genera for technical use (since the latter 



