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dependently of the late Alfred Binet, who 

 directed the psychological laboratory. Pro- 

 fessor Pieron, Binet's successor, is now join- 

 ing forces with the representatives of French 

 pathological psychology, and the institute thus 

 formed is also to encourage the applications 

 of psychology to education and to industry. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL 

 NEWS 



The will of the late Jacob Schiff includes 

 the following bequests: 



To the Montefiore Home and Hospital for 



Chrome Diseases $300,000 



To the Jewish Theological Seminary of 

 America 150,000 



To the Hebrew Union College at Cincin- 

 nati 100,000 



To the New York University for its School 



of Commerce and Accoimting 50,000 



To the Metropolitan Museum of Art .... 25,000 



To the New York Public Library 25,000 



To the Zoological Society of the City of 



New York 25,000 



To Harvard University 25,000 



To Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Insti- 

 tute 10,000 



To Hampton Normal and Agricultural In- 

 stitute 10,000 



At the Medical School of the Johns Hop- 

 kins University at least two years of college 

 work, of which one and one third years 

 should be devoted to inorganic and two thirds 

 of a year to organic chemistry, will hereafter 

 be required. Each year's course comprises 

 three class room exercises a week and five to 

 six hours of laboratory work. This represents 

 only a minimal training, and three years' 

 work is advised, including one third of a year 

 devoted to lectures and demonstrations in 

 elementary physical chemistry. After 1923 

 three years' preparation in chemistry will be 

 required, including at least 240 hours of class 

 room work and 500 hours of laboratory work. 

 The former must include 60 hours in organic 

 chemistry and a short com'se in physical 

 chemistry; while the latter must include one 

 year's work in quantitative analysis and 120 

 hours in organic chemistry. 



Owing to the death of Alfred J. Moses, 

 professor of mineralogy at Columbia Univer- 

 sity, the department of mineralogy has been 

 combined with that of geology into a single 

 department of geology and mineralog-y. Dr. 

 Lea I. Luquer, now assistant professor of 

 mineralogy has been promoted to be associate 

 professor. 



Professor William J. Crozier, of the de- 

 partment of zoology of the University of 

 Chicago, has been appointed professor of 

 zoology and public health at Rutgers College. 



Dr. Homer H. Collins, head of the depart- 

 ment of biology of the Presno Junior College 

 at Fresno, California, has become assistant 

 professor of zoology in the University of Pitts- 

 burg. 



Mr. John Paul G-ivler, after two years 

 service in the Sanitary Corps, has accepted 

 the headship of the department of biology at 

 the ISTorth Carolina College for Women, 

 Greensboro, N". C. 



Conrad Thoraldsen and Isaac !N"euwirth 

 have been appointed instructors in the depart- 

 ments of histology and of physiological chem- 

 istry, respectively, of the New York Homoeo- 

 pathic Medical College and Fowler Hospital. 



Albert Salathe, graduate student in the 

 University of Chicago, has gone to Albany, 

 New York, to be professor of chemistry at the 

 Albany College of Pharmacy. 



Professor E. H. Kraus, head of the minera- 

 logical department of the University of Michi- 

 gan, has been made acting dean of the college 

 of pharmacy until a new dean is appointed. 

 Dr. Kraus has for many years been dean of 

 the University of Michigan Summer Session. 

 Mr. Charles G. Stocking has been appointed 

 assistant professor of pharmacy to fill the va- 

 cancy caused by the resignation of Professor 

 A. F. Schlichting, who has taken up his work 

 as chief of the Control Laboratories of the 

 William B. Warner Company of Saint Louis. 



In the department of geology. University of 

 Kansas, Dr. Eaymond C. Moore, professor of 

 geology and paleontology and state geologist, 

 has been made chairman ; Professor Chesley J. 

 Posey, of the University of Minnesota, has 



