September 25, 1908] 



SCIENCE 



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dean of the School of Applied Science; As- 

 sociate Professor J. E. Latta, professor of 

 electrical engineering; Professor A. H. Pat- 

 terson, formerly of the University of Georgia, 

 professor of physics; Associate Professor W. 

 C. Coker to be professor of botany; Associate 

 Professor Archibald Henderson to be professor 

 of pure mathematics; instructors in math- 

 ematics, G. K. G. Henry and J. C. Hines, Jr. ; 

 instructor in physics, T. J. McManis. The 

 university has just completed at the cost of 

 $35,000, a new laboratory for the department 

 of biology. 



Recent appointments at the University of 

 Kansas are as follows : L. D. Havenhill, pro- 

 fessor of pharmacy; assistant professors, G. 

 W. Hartwell in mathematics. Burton McCul- 

 lum in physics, H. C. Allen in chemistry, and 

 A. H. Sluss in mechanical engineering; in- 

 structors Paul Wernicke, Mayer Gaba, C. A. 

 Pierce in mathematics; F. U. G. Agrelius in 

 botany; E. L. Moodie in zoology; Cecil Smith 

 in physiology, and C. H. Wittington museum 

 assistant in entomology. 



The following appointments have been made 

 at Lehigh University: Instructors, R. G. 

 Pogg, B.S., in civil engineering; H. E. Hend- 

 ricks, B.S., in civil engineering; H. A. S. 

 Howarth, Ph.B., in mechanical engineering; 

 P. T. Leilich, E.E., in physics; Edgar T. 

 Wherry B.S., and Chester G. Gilbert, Ph.B., 

 in mineralogy ; Assistants : Walter K. Van 

 Haagen, B.S., in chemistry; Edwin E. Eeinke, 

 B.A., in biology. 



Dr. S. N. T.4YL0R, of Pittsburg University, 

 has been appointed professor of electrical 

 engineering at the University of Cincinnati. 



Washburn College, Topeka, Kans., has es- 

 tablished this year a department of botany 

 and zoology with Dr. C. H. Edmondson, of 

 the University of Iowa, in charge of zoology 

 and Dr. Ira D. Cardiff, University of Utah, 

 in charge of botany. 



Mr. a. B. Erizell has been appointed pro- 

 fessor of mathematics at Midland College, 

 Atchison, Kansas. 



In Manchester University, Mr. J. E. Peta- 

 vel, D.Sc, F.E.S., lecturer in mechanics and 



in meteorology and demonstrator in physics, 

 has been appointed professor of engineering; 

 Mr. C H. Lander, lecturer in engineering; 

 Mr. T. G. B. Osborn, lecturer in economic 

 botany; Mr. F. H. J. A. Lamb, M.D., now 

 demonstrator in physiology, Cardiff Univer- 

 sity College, senior demonstrator in physiol- 

 ogy; Mr. A. E. Woodall, junior demonstrator 

 in physiology ; Mr. T. W. Todd, senior demon- 

 strator, and Mr. E. E. Hughes, and Mr. S. H. 

 J. Kilroe, junior demonstrators in anatomy. 



Dr. Heinrich Burkhardt, professor of 

 mathematics at Zurich, has been called to the 

 Technical Institute at Munich. 



DISCUSSION AND CORRESPONDENCE 

 the teaching of mathematics to students op 

 engineering 

 To THE Editor of Science: The observa- 

 tions of Professor George F. Swain, of The 

 Massachusetts Institute of Technology, in 

 the issue of August 28, on " The Teaching of 

 Mathematics to Students of Engineering," 

 are as valuable and suggestive as they are 

 frank and progressive. They stand out 

 clearly as the practical judgment of one in 

 close touch with the needs of engineering. 

 While these observations touch primarily the 

 field of mathematics, and applied mathe- 

 matics, and while we are compelled to let 

 each specialty speak for itself; yet the same 

 ideas, of using school training as a tool for 

 practical use, and the necessity of developing 

 the practical imagination, these ideas are 

 quite as essential in other fields of natural 

 science. As a teacher of chemistry, and one 

 specially interested in the newer industrial 

 and trades-school movement, I wish to em- 

 phasize the value of Professor Swain's re- 

 marks for chemistry in particular, and, pre- 

 sumably, for most of the other sciences in 

 general. The contrast of view between the 

 remarks of Professor Sehlichter and Pro- 

 fessor Swain is obviously that between the 

 traditional teacher and the progressive engi- 

 neer. The one looks at science from the 

 standpoint of the teacher of theory ; the other, 

 from that of the user of school training. And 

 in this difference, as clearly shown by Pro- 



