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desiring to follow up their studies in Argen- 

 tina. The municipal council of Buenos 

 Aires, on December 22, 1919, passed an ordi- 

 nance providing for the establishment of a 

 practical school of aviculture in connection 

 with the zoological garden. During the ap- 

 prentice period pupils will be required to give 

 their services to the school gratuitously. On 

 the completion of the course a diploma as 

 practical aviculturist will be given. In the 

 Colombian Ministry of Agriculture a depart- 

 ment of cattle and meat inspection has been 

 established to study contagious cattle diseases 

 and their remedies, and to inspect cattle and 

 meat products intended for export to coun- 

 tries which demand certificates of inspection. 

 A law of November 5, 1919, grants a subsidy 

 of about $10,000 for the establishment of a 

 course in agriculture and industries in the 

 TJniversity of Karino. The Department of 

 Agriculture of Cuba has decided to establish 

 a bureau of commercial information in Eu- 

 ropean and American countries for the pur- 

 pose of establishing cordial commercial rela- 

 tions between Cuba and the other countries. 

 The first bureau will be established in France. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL 

 NEWS 



At a meeting of Messrs. Brunner, Mond, 

 and Co., at Liverpool, on August 4, a resolu- 

 tion to authorize the directors to distribute to 

 universities or other scientific institutions in 

 the United Kingdom for the furtherance of 

 scientific education and research, $500,000 out 

 of the investment surplus reserve account was 



The University of Tennessee College of 

 Medicine will erect a pathologic laboratory 

 building to cost $75,000 near the Memphis 

 General Hospital. This is in accordance with 

 a contract between the university and the 

 Memphis General Hospital by which the 

 school has entire control of the teaching 

 facilities in the hospital for a period of twenty 

 years and the school will nominate the med- 

 ical, surgical and laboratory staffs of the 

 hospital. 



Dr. Gilbert H. Cady, who has been con- 

 nected with the Geological Survey of Illinois 

 for several years and who has recently re- 

 turned from a year spent in mining interests 

 in the far east, has accepted the position of 

 professor of geology and head of the depart- 

 ment in the University of Arkansas. He also 

 becomes state geologist of Arkansas. 



At Northwestern University Miss Margaret 

 Fuller, M.A., Chicago, has been appointed in- 

 structor in geology and Mr. Thomas Lloyd 

 Gledhill, M.A., Toronto, has been appointed 

 instructor in mineralogy and geology. 



F. A. Varrelman", acting professor of 

 botany at Occidental Colleg'e, Los Angeles, 

 during 1919-20 has accepted a professorship 

 at the State Normal School, Silver City, New 

 Mexico. Dr. F. A. Smiley will reassume the 

 work in this department at Occidental Col- 

 lege, having been at the University of Cali- 

 fornia during the past year. 



O. A. Haugen, formerly instructor at the 

 University of Wisconsin is returning this fall 

 as assistant professor of chemical engineer- 

 ing. He is at present connected with the 

 Carborundrum company at Niagara Falls. 



Dr. English Bagby has been appointed in- 

 structor in psychology at Yale University. 



Dr. W. N. Haworth has been appointed to 

 the chair of organic chemistry at Armstrong 

 College, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, in succession 

 to Professor S. Smiles. 



DISCUSSION AND CORRESPONDENCE 



THE OBLIGATION OF THE INVESTIGATOR TO 

 THE LIBRARY 



The dependence of the present-day investi- 

 gator upon institutional libraries is almost 

 absolute. Necessarily so, as only a very ex- 

 ceptional person can own, or provide room 

 for, a library complete enough to cover the 

 range of his professional interests. Even if 

 he owned the books he could not care for them 

 and do anything else. Except in his own 

 special field, no investigator will attempt to 

 compete with the skilled bibliographers of 

 our better libraries, and even in his own field 

 he is apt to appear at a disadvantpge. One 



