June 18, 1920] 



SCIENCE 



609 



Navy, Marine Corps, Coast Guard, Public Health 

 Service and Coast and Geodetic Survey shall toe 

 based on the total of all service in any or all of 

 said services. 



This law makes a substantial increase in 

 the pay and allowances of the commissioned 

 personnel of the Coast and Geodetic Survey 

 who hold relative rank from second lieu- 

 tenant to colonel in the army and from ensign 

 to captain in the navy. The commissioned 

 personnnel of the Surveys will also be greatly 

 benefited by the retirement clause of this act. 

 The salary scale for the commissioned per- 

 sonnel of the survey had previously been so 

 inadequate that it was impossible to secure 

 applicants for the vacant positions. This is 

 shown by the fact that there are to-day about 

 40 vacancies in the commissioned force of 140. 

 This has been increased to 50 by the retire- 

 ment of ten ofBcers who have reached the 

 retirement age. In the future the pay and 

 allowances of the lowest commissioned grade 

 will be about $2,500 per annum. Appoint- 

 ments to this grade will be made from the 

 grades of junior engineer and deck ofiieer, the 

 entrance positions. Six months' experience 

 in the lowest grade is necessary before pro- 

 motion to the commissioned personnel. 



The IT. S. Civil Service Commission will 

 shortly announce an examination to be held 

 about the middle of July from which to secure 

 eligibles to fill the entering positions. 



THE ROCKEFELLER FOUNDATIONS ENDOW- 

 MENT OF UNIVERSITY COLLEGE, 

 LONDON 



The Rockefeller Foimdation has offered to 

 give about $6,000,000 to University College, 

 London, and its hospital. Dr. George E. 

 Vincent has issued a statement in which he 

 says: 



Since the Rockefeller Foundation is cooperating 

 with governments in many parts of the British 

 Empire it recognizes the importance of aiding med- 

 ical education in London, where the training of 

 personnel and the setting of standards for health 

 work throughout tlie empire are so largely cen- 

 tered. 



The University College and Hospital School have 

 been selected because of the physical unity of the 



hospital and medical school buildings and the close 

 relationships existing between the University Col- 

 lege, which provides the laboratory courses, and the 

 University College Hospital and Medical School, 

 which furnishes clinical teaching. 



The college and school are fortunate in having 

 assembled a group of able men who are deeply in- 

 terested in teaching and research. E. H. Starling 

 and William M. Bayliss, physiologists, and G. El- 

 liot Smith, anatomist, are scientists of distinction, 

 while T. E. Elliott, G. Blanker Thomas Lewis, Sir 

 John Bradford, C. C. Choyce, H. K. Kenwood, H. 

 Betty Shaw and Sydney Martin are clinicians of 

 recognized standing. 



The authorities of the schools, supported heartily 

 by the faculty, have organized full-time clinical 

 "units" in such a way as to combine the care of 

 patients and research with the teaching of students. 

 This feature of the work especially influenced the 

 foundation to decide to assist in furthering a plan 

 which it is believed will have an important effect 

 upon the development of British medicine. 



The building program for Which £590,000 have 

 been appropriated will include an institute of anat- 

 omy comparable with any in the United States. A 

 new home for nurses, new quarters for resident 

 physicians, a biochemical building, laboratory fa- 

 cilities in close connection with hospital wards, the 

 remodeling of a hospital with the addition of 

 twenty beds, and a new obstetrical unit with a ca- 

 pacity of sixty patients. These additions will 

 provide a total of 500 beds. 



It is proposed to increase the annual expendi- 

 tures by the approximately £50,000, of which the 

 foimdation will provide endowment to produce an 

 income of £30,000. This additional maintenance 

 will be expended upon a new staff in anatomy, an 

 increase in the staff of physiology, the provision of 

 a full-time unit in obstetrics and various items of 

 increased laboratory and clinical service through- 

 out the institutions concerned. It is believed that 

 the obstetrical unit plan offers prospects of a suc- 

 cess which will be of value to the entire world. 

 The subject now in England, as elsewhere, is 

 poorly taught and needs reorganization under im- 

 proved conditions. 



The foundation has a special interest in the pro- 

 posed Institute of Anatomy because thus far under 

 British auspices a true university department which 

 combines both teachings and research in the fields 

 of anatomy, histology and embryology has not been 

 developed. It is believed that such an institute, 

 by unified efforts in these three branches of anat- 



