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SCIENCE 



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already been selected. In view of the im- 

 portance of vegetable products in India, there 

 will also be a chair of organic chemistry. 

 The aearness of the great Cauvery power 

 works, from which a supply of electricity at 

 high tension will be obtained, has led to the 

 decision to open a department of electrical 

 technology. There will also be a chair of 

 bacteriology, and, though the sixth depart- 

 ment has not yet been finally decided on, it 

 may be a chair of metallurgy or electro- 

 metallurgy. A large sum is being allotted for 

 the creation of a library. Probably sixty 

 students will be admitted to the institute in 

 the first two or three years, and a few students 

 in chemistry may be at work by the end of 

 the present year, when temporary laboratories 

 will become available. 



The question of suitable openings for stu- 

 dents of the institute causes no anxiety among 

 those responsible for its direction. It is be- 

 lieved that the supply of well-trained scientific 

 men will create a demand. There is already 

 a certain demand in India for chemists in 

 sugar works and similar concerns, and also for 

 analysts in metallurgical enterprises. The 

 demand for electrical engineers is growing 

 rapidly. Dr. Travers states, however, that 

 " it is not so much in industries which are 

 already flourishing, hut in nascent industries." 



THE ORDER OF THE CONTENTS OF 



" SCIENCE " 



With the present issue of Science, which 

 opens the twenty-eighth volume of the new 

 series and the fifty-first volume of the journal, 

 a change is made in the arrangement of the 

 contents. It may be explained that this is 

 done in order that the number may be paged 

 more quickly and conveniently. To fill the 

 pages exactly certain of the items under 

 " Scientific Notes and News " must be ad- 

 justed to fit. When these notes are at the 

 end of the number, it must be paged until 

 they are reached. Placing them in the middle 

 of the number pei-mits making up the forms 

 by starting at the same time from the begin- 

 ning and the end. The proceedings of Scien- 

 tific Societies and Academies, which will here- 



after be placed at the close of the number, will 

 be printed in smaller type, in order that this 

 department may represent as completely as 

 possible the increasing activity of the scien- 

 tific societies of the country. Finally, this 

 opportunity may be used to remind subscribers 

 that those who wish to receive their copies of 

 Science with the pages trimmed should write 

 to the publishers to that effect. 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 

 Dr. Adolf Meyer, director of the Patho- 

 logical Institute of the New York State Hos- 

 pitals, has accepted a professorship of psy- 

 chiatry in the medical department of the 

 Johns Hopkins University, and the director- 

 ship of the Psychiatric Hospital and Clinic, 

 recently founded by Mr. Henry Phipps. 



Harvard University has conferred its doc- 

 torate of laws on Dr. Charles E. Van Hise, 

 president of the University of Wisconsin, and 

 its doctorate of science on Dr. W. C. Gorgas, 

 member of the Isthmian Canal Commission 

 and this year president of the American 

 Medical Association. 



The University of Wisconsin has conferred 

 its doctorate of laws on Professor Calvin M. 

 Woodward, dean of the School of Engineering 

 of Washington University, St. Louis, and on 

 Dr. Frederick Belding Power, director of the 

 Wellcome Research Laboratory, London, and 

 formerly professor of pharmacology in the 

 University of Wisconsin. 



Tale University has conferred its doctorate 

 of science on Dr. Graham Lusk, professor of 

 physiology in the University and Bellevue 

 Hospital Medical School, New York, and 

 formerly professor in Yale University. 



Amherst College has conferred its doc- 

 torate of laws on William Bullock Clark, pro- 

 fessor of geology in the Johns Hopkins Uni- 

 versity. 



Trinity College has conferred its doctorate 

 of laws on Dr. James Ewing Mears, professor 

 in the Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, 

 and its doctorate of science on Dr. Andrew 

 Ellicott Douglass, professor of physics and as- 

 tronomy in the University of Arizona, and on 



