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have at any time been admitted to a degree in 

 the University of Cambridge. The value of 

 the prize is about £220. The essays must be 

 sent to the vice-chancellor on or before the 

 last day of December, 1914. 



VNIVEESITT AND EDVCATIONAL NEWS 

 In memory of a husband who for years had 

 suffered from a malady that eluded medical 

 skill, Mrs. George William Hooper, of San 

 Francisco, has transferred to the Univer- 

 sity of California $1,000,000 for the establish- 

 ment of an institute of medical research. The 

 foundation is to be controlled by an advisory 

 board of seven members constituted as fol- 

 lows: The president of the Carnegie Founda- 

 tion, -who is now Dr. Pritchett; the professor 

 of pathology at the Johns Hopkins Univer- 

 sity, the director of the Eockefeller Institute 

 for Medical Eesearch, the president of the 

 University of California, the dean of the Med- 

 ical School of the University of California, 

 E. D. Connolly, representing Mrs. Hooper, 

 and a seventh member to be chosen by the 

 western members of the advisory board. 



The late Dr. Louis A. Duhring, formerly 

 professor in the University of Pennsylvania, in 

 his will disposes of an estate valued at about 

 $500,000. His notes on medical eases are 

 given to the university, and the will creates a 

 trust fund of $25,000, the income of which is 

 to be used for the benefit of the department of 

 cutaneous medicine. The will gives the Uni- 

 versity of Pennsylvania Hospital $50,000 for 

 the establishment of free beds in which cutane- 

 ous, cancerous and allied diseases shall be 

 treated. After making a number of private 

 bequests, the testator directs that the residue 

 of the estate be given to the trustees of the 

 University of Pennsylvania, and that it be 

 applied to the treatment of cutaneous diseases 

 and their study. 



Mr. Stevens Hecksher has given $10,000 

 to the University of Pennsylvania to estab- 

 lish a fellowship in medical research. 



Friends of Professor William Otis Crosby 

 have presented to Columbia University the 

 sum of $1,800 for the establishment of a col- 

 lection of lantern slides to be known as the 



■' William Otis Crosby Collection of Geolog- 

 ical Lantern Slides." 



The trustees of the University of Illinois 

 have voted that for students entering in Sep- 

 tember, 1913, the requirements for admission 

 to the College of Medicine (formerly the Col- 

 lege of Physicians and Surgeons of Chicago) 

 be raised to at least one year of collegiate 

 work in addition to fifteen units of common 

 and high school work, and that for students 

 entering September, 1914, the minimum re- 

 quirement further be increased to two years of 

 collegiate work in some college or imiversity 

 of recognized standing. 



Mr. C. L. Dake has been appointed assist- 

 ant professor of geology and mineralogy in 

 the Missouri School of Mines. He was in- 

 structor in geology at the University of Wis- 

 consin during 1911-12, and during 1912-13 at 

 Williams College. 



Dr. Leo F. Guttmann, formerly head of 

 the division of physical chemistry at the Col- 

 lege of the City of New York, and for the last 

 four years assistant professor of physical and 

 industrial chemistry at Queen's University, 

 Kingston, has been appointed associate pro- 

 fessor of chemical engineering. 



Dr. George Shannon Forbes, instructor in 

 Harvard University, has been promoted to be 

 assistant professor of chemistry. 



Professor Oswald Kulpe succeeds Pro- 

 fessor Th. Lipps as professor of philosophy at 

 Munich. 



DISCUSSION AND COREESPONDENCE 



THE LAWS OF nomenclature EST PALEONTOLOGY 



To THE Editor of Science : A number of re- 

 cent letters in Science on the subject of 

 nomenclature may serve as an excuse to pre- 

 sent to those interested a few of the special 

 difficulties that beset the vertebrate paleontol- 

 ogist in questions of nomenclature. 



The writer holds no brief for the law of 

 priority. Names, scientific or popular, are, 

 after all, but words designed to convey a cer- 

 tain concept, and the fixity and uniformity of 

 that concept might quite well have been — -'Gr 

 be — secured by an official dictionary which 



