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doctrine that human beings have descended from 

 animals. This not being the toelief of the college, 

 which accepts the Bible account of creation in all 

 it-s details, she resigned her position and her resig- 

 nation was accepted. God sent to us in a very 

 definite manner Professor S. J. Bole, an A.B. from 

 the University of Illinois, who was for nine years 

 an instructor in the Illinois State University, but 

 whose religious views were positive and clear and 

 made him desirous of a change. He has entered 

 upon his work with enthusiasm and is very highly 

 esteemed by his fellow teachers and students. In 

 view of the general situation among university men, 

 W)6 consider his coming to us distinctly providential. 



The Indian mathematician Srinivasa Ea- 

 manujan, F.R.S., fellow of Trinity College, 

 Cambridge, has died at the age of thirty-tv^o 

 years. 



The death is announced at the age of 

 seventy-seven years of Clement Arkadievitch 

 Timiriazeff, emeritus professor of botany in 

 the University of Moscow, recently elected to 

 the Moscow soviet. Prof^sor Timiriazefi 

 was known for his work on the participation 

 of the difFerent rays of the visible spectrum 

 in the photosynthetic activity of the green 

 leaf. He was the author of a number of 

 books on botany and agriculture, his earliest 

 being a work on " Darwin and his Theory " 

 published in 1863. 



The Biological Station of the University 

 of Michigan will hold its twelfth session on 

 the shores of Doug'las Lake near Pellston in 

 northern Michigan, June 28 to August 20, 

 imder the directorship of Professor George E. 

 La Eue. The instructors are: Professor 

 Frank Smith, University of Illinois; Assist- 

 ant Professor Paul S. Welch, University of 

 Michigan; Dr. Dayton Stoner, State Univer- 

 sity of Iowa; Assistant Professor Frank C. 

 Gates, Kansas State Agricultural College; 

 Assistant Professor George E. Nichols, Tale 

 University; and Dr. John H. Ehlers, Uni- 

 Tersity of Michigan. Special and research 

 courses in zoology and botany and facilities 

 for research are also offered to qualified 

 students. 



The summer courses in biology at the Hop- 

 kins Marine Station, Pacific Grove, Cali- 



fornia, began on June 22 and will end on 

 September 3. Instruction is offered in gen- 

 eral zoology, the classification and ecology of 

 marine invertebrates, comparative anatomy of 

 vertebrates; the fishes of California, ele- 

 mentary physiology, general physiology, the 

 algsB and special work in zoology, physiology 

 and botany. The faculty will consist of Pro- 

 fessors W. K. Fisher, Edwin C. Starks, and 

 Gertrude Van Wagenen in zoology; Professors 

 E. G. Martin, J. P. Baumberger, and J. M. D. 

 Olmsted in physiology and J. I. W. Mc- 

 Murphy in botany. Dr. Frank E. Lillie, of 

 the University of Chicago, spent the winter 

 quarter at the station and Dr. H. H. Newman 

 is there during the spring quarter. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL 



The will of Eichard M. Colgate gives $100,- 

 ,000 to Tale University and to Colgate Univer- 

 ,sity. 



Drury College has completed the raising 

 of $400,000 in order to secure an additional 

 ,sum of $200,000 from the General Educational 

 Board. The net productive enidowment of the 

 .college is now over one million dollars. As a 

 consequence of the success of this endovranent, 

 salaries of professors and teachers have been 

 .increased from 25 to 60 per cent. 



At its last meeting the Tale coriporation 

 .elected Dr. Milton Charles Wiinternitz dean 

 of the Tale School of Medicine to succeed Dr. 

 George Blumer. Dr. Winternitz joined the 

 ,Tale faculty in the fall of 1917 as professor of 

 pathology. 



. At Washington and Lee University, L. J. 

 Desha, Ph.D., formerly professor of chemistry 

 ,in the Medical College of Tennessee, has been 

 elected professor of chemistry; W. D. Hoyt, 

 Ph.D., associate professor of biology, has been 

 .promoted to professor of hiology and head of 

 the deipartment. 



, At Oberlin College Associate Professor W. 

 D. Cairns has been promoted to be professor 

 of mathematics and head of the department, 

 professor F. Anderegg having retired after 

 thirty-three years of teaching in Oberlin. 



