OCTOBEK 29, 1920] 



SCIENCE 



407 



H. Bragg, F.R.S., and on October 13 Dr. 

 Wolf will begin an introductory course of lec- 

 tures on general history and development of 

 science; this course will be illustrated by lan- 

 tern slides, and visits will be made to mu- 

 seums. On October 12 at 5.15 p.m., Dr. 

 Charles Singer will begin a course of twelve 

 lectures on the history of the biological and 

 medical sciences from early times till the 

 eighteenth century. Dr. Singer's intention is 

 to make his course a history of medical sci- 

 ence, for down to a certain date the biological 

 sciences are inseparable from medicine; he 

 will omit all discussion of socia,! phenomena 

 and personalities. The history of the biolog- 

 ical sciences since the eighteenth century will 

 be dealt with by Professor J. B. Hill, F.R.S., 

 in a course of six lectures, beginning next 

 May. 



The Carnegie Institute of Technology of 

 Pittsburgh is completing the most elaborate 

 coal mining laboratory in America. The lab- 

 oratory, which will be finished by the opening 

 of the fall term, is located beneath the build- 

 ing of the division of science and engineering 

 of the institute. The equipment comprises a 

 full-sized coal mine— a model mine, except 

 that it yields no coal — a mine locomotive and 

 a full set of coal and metal mine machinery, 

 that has been furnished by manufacturers. In 

 addition to the mining laboratories proper 

 there will be a completely equipped ore-dress- 

 ing and coal-washing plant. It is purposed to 

 extend the mine, during the practise work of 

 the students, along such a plan that it can be 

 utilized for carrying some of the steam and 

 water pipes of the institute. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL 



NEWS 



From October Y through the 17, the Uni- 

 versity of Buffalo conducted an intensive 

 campaign among the citizens of the city for 

 a fund of five million dollars, to be used 

 I)artly for endowment and partly for addi- 

 tional buildings. The " drive" was a com- 

 plete success, and a total of about $5,500,000 



was subscribed. The campaign was conducted 

 in the absence of an educational head, Charles 

 P. Norton, having resigned as chancellor of 

 the university early in the sxunmer. He was 

 elected vice-chancellor in 1905, and chancellor 

 in 1909. In his administration a new site for 

 the university was secured, and the new build- 

 ings will be erected on a campus, of 150 acres 

 at the city line. A committee of the council 

 is charged with the duty of securing a new 

 chancellor. 



Dr. Walter T. Taggart, for many years 

 professor of organic chemistry at the Univer- 

 sity of Pennsylvania, has been elected to suc- 

 ceed Dr. Edgar Fahs Smith as Blanchard pro- 

 fessor of chemistry at that institution. Dr. 

 Smith resigned as provost and professor of 

 chemistry last June. Professor Taggart is 

 now the head of the chemical department of 

 the university. 



Dr. Edward Wyllys Taylor, professor of 

 neurology in the Harvard Medical School, has 

 been appointed to the James Jackson Putnam 

 professorship. 



Miss Gladys Bryant (Eadcliile '17), has 

 become demonstrator in general physiology at 

 Rutgers College. 



The department of chemistry of Cooper 

 Union announces the appointment to its staff 

 of William 'N. Pritchard, formerly with the 

 Calco Company, Boundbrook, !N. J., and of 

 Harold Hurst, formerly with the Le Doux 

 Company. 



Dr. Ernest Anderson, for the past three 

 years professor of Agricultural chemistry in 

 Transvaal University College, Pretoria, has 

 been appointed professor of general chemistry 

 in the University of !N"ebraska. 



J. B. Ferguson has left the research labora- 

 tories of the Western Electric Company, of 

 New York City, to accept an appointment as 

 associate professor of research chemistry at 

 the University of Toronto. 



Professor Albert Einstein, of the Uni- 

 versity of Berlin, has accepted the chair of 

 science in the University of Leiden. He will 

 divide his time between the two institutions. 



