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planned -bliat the increased space for books will 

 meet all demands of nature lovers. The li- 

 brary is open: 10 to 12 a.m. and 2 to 5 p.m., 

 from June 15 to September 15 each year, and 

 during the winter two afternoons of each week 

 jfrom 2 to 4 



Geo. p. Gray has resigned his position as 

 assistant professor of entomology and chem- 

 ist, insecticide laboratory at the UniTersity of 

 California to become chief of the division of 

 chemistry of the State of California Depart- 

 ment of Agriculture, with headquarters at Sac- 

 ramento. The Department of Agriciilture es- 

 tablished at the last session of the California 

 legislature was fostered by Governor Stephens 

 as an economy and efficiency measure, and 

 correlates under Director G. H. Hecke, several 

 boards and commissions formerly charged with 

 the enforcement of various laws pertaining to 

 agriculture. The work of the department is 

 organized into three divisions: Plant Indus- 

 try, Animal Industry and Chemistry. The 

 Division of Chemistry, under Professor Gray, 

 is to handle the official analysis and testing of 

 materials incidental to the administration of 

 the state laws regulating the manufacture and 

 sale of insecticides, fungicides, fertilizers and 

 dairy products and the fruit and vegetable 

 standardization laws. 



It is stated in Nature that the British Med- 

 ical Research Council has recently established 

 at the Lister Institute of Preventive Medicine 

 a national collection of type cultures from 

 which biologists in general, and bacteriolo- 

 gists in particular, may obtain authenic strains 

 of recognized bacteria and protozoa for use in 

 scientific work. The scheme is under the gen- 

 eral direction of Dr. J. C. G. Ledingham, while 

 Dr. E. St. John Brooks has been appointed to 

 the post of curator of the collection and Miss 

 Mabel Ehodes to that of assistant curator. It 

 is proposed to collect and maintain bacterial 

 strains from all departments of bacteriology, 

 human, veterinary and economic, and already 

 considerable work has been done towards the 

 formation of a representative collection on 

 these lines. The efforts of the staff are, how- 



ever, at present particularly directed towards 

 the securing of fully authenticated strains re- 

 sponsible for or associated with disease in man 

 and animals. The bureau proposes to supply 

 cultures on demand to all workers at home and 

 abroad, and, as a rule, a nominal charge per 

 culture will be made to defray postage and 

 media. Strains sent for identification and 

 maintenance should be accompanied by par- 

 ticulars as to source, date of isolation, etc. In 

 due course a catalogue will be prepared for 

 publication. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL 

 NEWS 



A PLAN for securing within five years $10,- 

 000,000 to meet the urgent needs of the Uni- 

 versity of Chicago is now being carried out. 

 For salary increases already made or author- 

 ized the sum of $4,000,000 as additional endow- 

 ment is needed. The new plans involve also 

 the formation of certain institutes within the 

 graduate school for conducting such research 

 and training in pure science as has an im- 

 mediate bearing on the application of the sci- 

 ences to industry. The institutes proposed are 

 those of physics and chemistry, plant agricul- 

 ture, mining and the science of education. 



Professor O. M. Leland, formerly of Cor- 

 nell University, but recently of the J. G. White 

 Engineering Corporation, New York City, has 

 been elected dean of the colleges of engineer- 

 ing, architecture and chemistry in the Univer- 

 sity of Minnesota. During the war. Professor 

 Leland was lieutenant colonel of engineers in 

 the 78 and 89 Divisions and saw active service 

 in France and Germany. Up to a few months 

 ago, he had been a member of the Cornell fac- 

 ulty since 1903. 



Dr. 0. E. Jennings, curator of botany at the 

 Carnegie Museum and for several years in 

 charge of the work in botany at the Univer- 

 sity of Pittsburgh, has been given the rank of 

 professor of botany at the latter institution. 



Dr. Claude S. McGinnis has joined the fac- 

 ulty of Temple University, Philadelphia, as 

 professor in the department of physics. Dr. 



