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National Conservation Commission has been 

 advised of the proposed plan and whatever re- 

 sults come from it ■will undoubtedly be con- 

 sidered by the commission at its joint meet- 

 ing with the governors of the states, or their 

 representatives, to be held in Washington next 

 December. 



An Australian Institute of Tropical Medi- 

 cine has been established at Townsville, North 

 Queensland. It receives subsidies of £450 

 from the commonwealth government; £250 

 from the Queensland government, and £400 

 from the British Colonial Office. The nomi- 

 nation of the first director has been dele- 

 gated to the Eoyal Society and to the London 

 and Liverpool Schools of Tropical Medicine. 



The Virginia Geological Survey, recently 

 established by the General Assembly of Vir- 

 ginia, with headquarters at the University of 

 Virginia, is under the direction of a com- 

 mission composed of Governor Swanson 

 (chairman), President Alderman, of the Uni- 

 versity of Virginia; President Barringer, of 

 the Virginia Polytechnic Institute; Superin- 

 tendent Nichols, of the Virginia Military In- 

 stitute, and Hon. A. M. Bowman, of Salem, 

 Va. At a recent meeting of the commission 

 Dr. Thomas L. Watson, professor of economic 

 geology in the University of Virginia, was 

 elected director of the survey. Dr. J. S. 

 Grasty, of the' Maryland Geological Survey, 

 was appointed assistant geologist, and Mr. 

 Wm. M. Thornton, Jr., of the University of 

 Virginia, chemist. Work is in progress on 

 the geology of the coastal plain region, in- 

 cluding the underground water resources; 

 cement and cement materials ; topography and 

 geology of the Virgilina copper district; 

 geology of the rutile deposits; and building 

 and ornamental stones. The studies of the 

 coastal plain geology and topographic map- 

 ping of the Virgilina district are in coopera- 

 tion with the United States Geological 

 Survey. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS 

 Me. and Mrs. E. W. Claek, of Philadelphia, 

 have given $10,000 to Harvard University for 

 the establishment of two freshman scholar- 

 ships. 



Columbia University has received $10,000 

 from Mr. and Mrs. Henry P. Shoemaker, the 

 income to be used in aiding poor students. 



Among the alumni of Haverford College a 

 fund is being raised for a science hall. 



With the opening of the college year on 

 September 24, the University of Wisconsin 

 College of Agriculture inaugurated a new 

 course known as the middle course, which may 

 be completed in two full years. This course 

 is designed to meet the needs of those stu- 

 dents who have had a high school training 

 and are prepared for university work, but 

 can not spend more than two years at the 

 university. The studies include practically all 

 the work of the first two years of the long, 

 or four years' course, with the exception that 

 foreign languages and mathematics are re- 

 placed by more practical subjects. The aim 

 is to give the students as thorough training 

 in the sciences and technical agriculture as is 

 possible in two years time. 



The Eev. W. W. Guth, A.B. (Stanford), 

 S.T.D. (Boston), Ph.D. (Halle), pastor of 

 Epworth Methodist Episcopal Church, Cam- 

 bridge, Mass., has accepted the call of the 

 corporation of the University of the Pacific 

 to the presidency of that institution. 



Professor H. Wade Hibbaed, head of the 

 department of railway mechanical engineer- 

 ing at Cornell University for the last ten 

 years, has been appointed director of the col- 

 lege of mechanical engineering at the Uni- 

 versity of Missouri. He will take up his new 

 duties the first of the new year. 



Dr. Howard S. Eeed, expert in soil fertility 

 in the Bureau of Soils of the United States 

 Department of Agriculture, has been elected 

 professor of plant pathology in the Virginia 

 Polytechnic Institute, and plant pathologist in 

 the Virginia Agricultural Experiment Sta- 

 tion at Blacksburg, Va. He entered upon 

 his new duties at the opening of the academic 

 year. 



At Western Reserve University, Mr. Carl 

 B. James has been promoted to be assistant 

 professor of biology in Adelbert College. In 

 the Medical School, Dr. Maulsby W. Black- 

 man, instructor in histology and embryology 



