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gery at the University of Louvain. Before 

 his death, Dr. Debaisieux had the gratifica- 

 tion of seeing his son appointed to the chair 

 which he himself had held for many years. 



The American Public Health Association 

 will meet in San Francisco, September 13-17. 

 The program will include the Relative Func- 

 tions of Official and Non- Official Health Or- 

 ganizatons; Western Health Problems; Nar- 

 cotic Control; Pood Poisoning; Organization 

 for Child Hygiene; Mental Hygiene; Health 

 Centers. These subjects and others will be 

 distributed among the following ten sectional 

 groups : General Sessions ; Public Health Ad- 

 ministration ; Laboratory; Vital Statistics; 

 Sociological; Sanitary Engineering; Indus- 

 trial Hygiene; Pood and Drugs; Personal 

 Hygiene; Child Hygiene. 



The Journal of the American Medical Asso- 

 ciation states that Dr. P. P. Simpson, of Pitts- 

 burgh, recently spent several months in Europe 

 with a view to interesting the medical pro- 

 fession of the world in the project of reorganiz- 

 ing ,on a uniform basis all international so- 

 cieties related to the various branches of 

 medicine. It is proposed to create a federa- 

 tion of these societies and to establish an in- 

 ternational medical press bureau which shall 

 be charged with making known all important 

 discoveries to the medical press of the world, 

 thus assuring rapid diffusion of medical knowl- 

 edge. A committee of ten, composed of two 

 physicians from each of five countries, Bel- 

 gium, Prance, Great Britain, Italy and the 

 United States, has been named and will meet 

 soon in Paris or London to set the new or- 

 ganization on foot. 



We learn from Nature that a congress of 

 Philosophy to which members of the Soeiete 

 Praneaise de Philosophic and the American 

 Philosophical Association are sending dele- 

 gates, is to take place at Oxford on Septemiber 

 24-27. Two of the subjects of discussion are 

 likely to be of especial scientific interest : one a 

 symposium on the principle of relativity, to be 

 opened by Professor Eddington, and the other 

 a discussion to be opened by Dr. Head on dis- 

 orders of symbolic thinking due to local lesions 



of the brain. The opening meeting of the con- 

 gress will be presided over by Professor Berg- 

 son. Arrangements are under the direction of 

 Mr. A. H. Smith, ISTew College, Oxford. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL 



NEWS 



Gifts of $150,000 each to Bowdoin and Uni- 

 versity of Maine, $70,000 to Coes Northwood 

 Academy at Durham, IST. H., and $10,000 to 

 the Eastern Maine General Hospital are in- 

 cluded in the will of Dr. Thomas Opham Coe. 



Sir Jesse Boot has given £50,000 to the 

 new Nottingham University scheme — £30,000 

 for building and £20,000 for a chair of chem- 

 istry. A gift of £15,000 has been made to 

 Liverpool University by Alderman Louis 

 Samuel Cohen. A further gift of £6,000 has 

 been received by the University of Cambridge 

 from Mr. and Mrs. P. A. Molteno to meet the 

 increased cost of labor and material in the 

 building of the Molteno Institute of Para- 

 sitology. 



Dr. Charles Hubbard Judd, head of the 

 department of education of the University 

 of Chicago and director of the school of edu- 

 cation, has been made chairman of the de- 

 partment of psychology to succeed Professor 

 James R. Angell, who resigned to accept the 

 presidency of the Carnegie Corporation of 

 New York. 



Professor Arthur M. Pardee has resigned 

 from the chair of chemistry at Washington 

 and Jefferson College, Washington, Pa., to 

 become the head of the department and pro- 

 fessor of chemistry at the University of South 

 Dakota, Vermillion, S. D. 



At the University of Arizona, Mr. J. G. 

 Brown has been promoted from an assistant 

 professorship in biology in the college of arts 

 and science to the position of professor of 

 plant pathology in the college of agriculture 

 and plant pathologist of the Agricultural Ex- 

 periment Station. 



Dr. Dwight E. Minnich, instructor in 

 physiology and zoology at Syracuse Univer- 

 sity, has become instructor in animal biology 

 at the University of Minnesota. 



