October 1, 1920] 



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Mr. Arthur Jackson Ellis, geologist in 

 the Water Resources Branch of the U. S. Geo- 

 logical Survey, died on July 22, 1920. 



The death of Charles IST. Forbes, for twelve 

 years curator of botany on the staff of the 

 Bishop Museum, occurred on August 8. 



Dr. George Morewood Lefferts, a retired 

 specialist in throat diseases, emeritus pro- 

 fessor of the College of Physicians and Sur- 

 geons, Columbia University, where he was a 

 • member of the faculty from 1874 to 1904, died 

 on Sefitember 21 at the age of seventy-four 

 years. 



Karl Hermann Struve, director of the 

 Berlin-Babelsberg Observatoi"y, and professor 

 of astronomy in the Berlin University, died 

 on August 12. 



We learn from The Observatory of the 

 death of Mrs. Frametta Wilson, who was one 

 of the five women pioneers admitted as fellows 

 of the Eoyal Astronomical Society in 1916, 

 and was later elected a member of the council. 

 Mrs. Wilson had been awarded the " Edward 

 C. Pickering Astronomical Fellowship for 

 Women" for the college year 1920—21 had 

 been assigned by the Harvard College Ob- 

 servatory. 



Dr. J. Pierre Morat, formerly professor of 

 physiology at the Lyons medical faculty, has 

 died at the age of seventy-five years. 



The British Thomson-Houston Company 

 has decided to establish two scholarships, one 

 of which will be allotted to Cambridge. It 

 proposes to select from the engineering gradu- 

 ates of that university who have worked with 

 the firm for not less than six months a scholar 

 who will be sent to their American associates, 

 the General Electric Company. The company 

 proposes to allow for the student's expenses for 

 one year an equivalent of $1,800 dollars. 

 After a year's study in America he will be 

 expected to return to the British company. 



Columbia University, beginning with the 

 autumn term, will offer in cooperation with 

 Eutgers College and the State University of 

 New Jersey a regular four years' course in 

 agriculture leading to the degree of bachelor 

 of science. The first two years will be given 



chiefly at Columbia and the second two years 

 at Eutgers. The student who completes the 

 course will receive his degree from Eutgers 

 College. The requirements for admission are 

 the same as those for Columbia College. Stu- 

 dents are urged to spend at least a year on a 

 well organized farm before entering Colum- 

 bia. Working on farms during summer va- 

 cations approximates satisfactory farm ex- 

 perience. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL 

 NEWS 



The first section of the new engineering 

 shops which are being constructed at Camp 

 Eandall for the College of Engineering of the 

 University of Wisconsin will be ready for occu- 

 pancy about the first of the second semester. 

 This building is the first step towards moving 

 some of the engineering work to Camp 

 Eandall and it will relieve the overcrowded 

 conditions resulting from the heavy enroll- 

 ment in the College of Engineering since the 

 close of the war. 



Dr. Willibald Weniger, formerly head of 

 the department of physics, who left six years 

 ago to engage in research work at the Nela 

 Eesearch laboratory of the ISTaticnal Electric 

 Lamp Division of the General Electric Com- 

 pany, Cleveland, Ohio, has returned to his 

 former position in the Oreg'on Agricultural 

 College. At this institution Dr. Floyd E. 

 Eowland, assistant professor of chemistry in 

 the University of Kansas, has been appointed 

 head of the department of chemical engineer- 

 ing, and Dr. Ivfathan Fasten, of the University 

 of Washington, has been appointed associate 

 professor of zoology. Dr. S. M. Zeller, assist- 

 ant professor of plant pathology has been pro- 

 moted to be associate professor in charge of 

 orchard disease investigation. 



Dr. Philip Hadley, formerly professor of 

 bacteriology at the Rhode Island State Col- 

 lege and biologist at the Agricultural Experi- 

 ment Station, has received appointment on 

 the faculty of the department of bacteriology 

 and hygiene, school of medicine. University 

 of Michigan. 



