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£3,500 wliich it has collected; £263 have been 

 sent direct by contributors; approximately 

 £100 yet remain in the hands of the treasurer, 

 Mr. W. J. Matheson. Professor Baskerville, 

 the chairman, hopes that the total American 

 contribution which is £3,863, may be raised to 

 £4,000, and that the American subscriptions 

 may then be closed. The total fund now 

 amounts to £51,274. Professor H. Kamerlingh 

 Onnes reports contributions of £1,571 given 

 or promised by donors in Holland. 



Egbert W. Lawson writes to Nature from 

 the Phj'sics Laboratory, the University of 

 Sheffield, quoting a letter of Professor Ein- 

 stein as follows : " Zwei junge Physiker in 

 Bonn haben nun die Eot-Verschiebung der 

 Spektral-Linien bei der Sonne so gut wie 

 sicher nachgewiesen und die Griinde des bis- 

 herigen Misslingens aufgeklart." 



Mr. Theodore W. Eobinson, of Chicago, 

 has given $500 to be used in purchasing mu- 

 seum material for the Oriental Institute of 

 the University of Chicago; and a donor whose 

 name is withheld gives $25,000 for the same 

 purposes. These funds will be used by Pro- 

 fessor James Henry Breasted, who is now in 

 Egypt on his way to Mesopotamia. 



The National Eesearch Council has re- 

 ceived a gift from the Southern Pine Asso- 

 ciation of $10,000 to pay for the incidental 

 expenses of a coordinated scientific study by a 

 nimiber of investigators of the re-growth of 

 trees or cut-over forest lands with the aim of 

 determining the best forestry methods for ob- 

 taining the highest productivity. The in- 

 vestigation will be conducted mider the advice 

 of the Eesearch Council's special committee 

 on forestry and will not duplicate any present 

 government or other undertakings along sim- 

 ilar lines. 



On the invitation of the council of the sen- 

 ate of the University of Cambridge, the chan- 

 cellor, the vice-chancellor, Mr. Eawlinson, Pro- 

 fessor Sir Joseph Larmor, Professor Sir J. J. 

 Thomson (master of Trinity), Dr. Hobson, and 

 Professor Sir Ernest Eutherford, have con- 

 sented to iServe as representatives of the uni- 

 versity on a joint committee of the Eoyal So- 



ciety and university for the purpose of taking 

 steps to secure an appropriate memorial to the 

 laite Lord Eayleigh. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL 



NEWS 



Professor William H. Walker, chairman 

 of the administrative committee of the Massa- 

 chusetts Institute of Technology, since the 

 death of President Maclaurin, has resigned 

 to devote his time to the division of industrial 

 cooperation and research. The new chairman 

 is Professor H. P. Talbot, chairman of the 

 faculty. Professor E. B. Wilson, of the 

 physics department has been appointed a 

 member of the committee, on which is also 

 Professor Edward Miller, of the department 

 of mechanical engineering. Professor Walker 

 is succeeded as head of the course of chemical 

 engineering by Professor Warren K. Lewis. 

 As has been already noted here. Professor 

 Arthur A. IsToyes, head of the research depart- 

 ment, has handed in his resignation as of 

 January 1, to go to the California Institute 

 of Technology. 



After thirteen years of service as professor 

 of medicine and ten years as dean of the Yale 

 School of Medicine, Dr. George Blumer has 

 resigned to resume consultation practise, but 

 he will not wholly sever his connection with 

 the school and the hospital. 



Dr. Arthur B. Lamb has been promoted to 

 a professorship of chemistry at Harvard Uni- 

 versity. 



Dr. Adolph Knopf, of the U. S. Geological 

 Survey, has been appointed lecturer in geol- 

 ogy in Yale University for the second term 

 of the present academic year. He has in 

 charge the undergraduate and graduate 

 courses in petrology formerly taught by the 

 late Professor Pirsson. Additional appoint- 

 ments in the geological department are those 

 of Dr. Carl O. Dimbar (B.A. Kansas 1913, 

 Ph.D. Yale 1917) as assistant professor of his- 

 torical geology, and Mr. Chester E. Longwell 

 (B.A. Missouri 1915, M.A. 1916) as assistant 

 professor of geology. 



