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SCIENCE 



[N. S. Vol. XXXVII. No. 953 



In 1909 the Goldsmiths Company gave 

 £50,000 towards the extension of the engi- 

 neering department in the Central Technical 

 College, London. We learn from Nature 

 that the company has now offered to pay the 

 entire cost of the new building, which means 

 an added gift of £37,000. The Goldsmiths' 

 Company has attached the condition that the 

 portion of the capital belonging to the Im- 

 perial College of Science and Technology, 

 which will be thus set free, shall be added to 

 the endowment fund, the income being used 

 for higher educational and research work. 



The union of the University of Maryland 

 medical department and the Baltimore Med- 

 ical College is assured, the faculties having 

 agreed on the terms of merger. Members of 

 the faculty of the latter institution will re- 

 tain their positions in the new school and 

 three of them will become members of the 

 siniversity board of regents. 



The amalgamation of the two medical 

 schools in Richmond, Va., has now been con- 

 summated. On March 22 the following ap- 

 pointments to the faculty were made by the 

 fcoard of visitors: 



Professors 



W. G. Christian, anatomy. 



W. A. Shepherd, histology and embryology. 



Wortley F. Eudd, chemistry. 



Alfred L. Gray, physiology. 



■S. B. Moon, pathology (acting). 



JFrancis W. Upshur, pharmacology and thera- 

 peutics. 



William S. Gordon, medicine. 



McGuire Newton, pediatrics. 



Beverly E. Tucker, neurology and psychiatry. 



E. P. McGavock, dermatology. 



George Ben Johnston, surgery. 



Lewis C. Bosher, genito-urinary surgery. 



Joseph A. White, ophthalmology. 



John Dunn, otology, rhinology and laryngology. 



John P. Winn, obstetrics. 



Charles E. Eobins, gynecology. 



Edward McGuire, clinical medicine. 



Manfred Call, clinical medicine. 



J. Allison Hodges, clinical neurology and psy- 

 chiatry. 



Stuart McGuire, clinical surgery. 



Hugh M. Taylor, clinical surgery. 



Associate Professors 



John W. Brodnax, anatomy. 



E. C. L. Miller, chemistry (physiological). 



C. Howard Lewis, physiology. 



E. Guy Hopkins, pathology (clinical). 



Aubrey H. Straus, bacteriology. 



Enuion G. Williams, hygiene and public health. 



Leslie B. Wiggs, materia medica and pharma- 

 cology. 



A. G. Brown, medicine (theory and practise). 



J. McCaw, Thompkins, medicine (theory and 

 practise) . 



J. Garnet Nelson, medicine (physical diagnosis). 



Dougless van der Hoof, clinical medicine. 



St. George T. Grinnan, pediatrics. 



Eoshier W. Miller, neurology and psychiatry. 



G. Paul La Eoque, surgery (practise). 



James W. Henson, surgery (principles). 



A. Murat Willis, surgery (operative). 



William W. Dunn, surgery (minor). 



W. Loundes Peple, clinical surgery. 



William P. Mathews, orthopedic surgery. 



R. C. Bryan, genito-urinary surgery. 



E. H. Wright, ophthalmology. 



S. C. Bowen, otology and rhinology. 



Clifton M. Miller, laryngology. 



Greer Baughman, obstetrics. 



Stuart Michaux, gynecology. 



Twenty-seven of these men were formerly 

 connected with University College of Medi- 

 cine and nineteen with the Medical College of 

 Virginia. 



Professoe Ira N. Hollis, since 1893 pro- 

 fessor of engineering at Harvard University, 

 has accepted the invitation of the trustees of 

 the Worcester Polytechnic Institute to be- 

 come president of that institution. 



Professor W. C. Ruediger, who has been 

 acting dean of the Teachers College at the 

 George Washington University since the 

 death of Dean Hough last September, has 

 been appointed dean. 



Professor Jores, of Cologne, has been ap- 

 pointed director of the Institute of Pathology 

 at Marburg. 



Professor Lubaesch, of Diisseldorf, has 

 succeeded the deceased Professor Heller as 

 director of the Institute of Pathology at Kiel. 



