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will be devoted to instructional purposes, gives 

 an increase of $50,000 over the total appropria- 

 tions for the present year. Forty thousand 

 dollars of the increase is in the allotment for 

 instructional purposes. 



Cooper Medical College, San Francisco, 

 has been made the medical department of 

 Stanford University. 



The Keokuk Medical College, of Keokuk, 

 Iowa, has been merged with the College of 

 Medicine of Drake University, at Des Moines. 



There have lately been added a thousand 

 acres to the reservation of the Forest Summer 

 School of Tale University at Milford, Pa. 

 Students of the Scientific School seeking ad- 

 vanced courses in forestry must take extra 

 scientific courses in the senior year and pass 

 two sessions at the Forest Summer School, to 

 which seven new courses have been added. 



The new building for biology and geology 

 at Amherst College has reached a point where 

 it is nearly ready for its roof. It has a front- 

 age of about 140 feet and is two stories high. 

 The construction is of reinforced concrete. 



The new directory of the University of 

 Wisconsin, now in press, shows 3,237 students 

 in attendance, exclusive of the winter dairy 

 and agriculture courses and the summer ses- 

 sion. With these added the total attendance 

 will exceed 4,500. The freshman class this 

 year ntmibers 945, an increase of 106 over that 

 of last year. 



At a meeting of the board of trustees of 

 the University of Arkansas, on November 5, 

 Dr. C. F. Adams was made acting dean and 

 director of the College of Agriculture and 

 Agricultural Experiment Station, succeeding 

 W. G. Vincenheller, resigned. 



Dr. Frederic Brush, of Boston, has been 

 appointed superintendent of the New York 

 Post-graduate Medical School and Hospital. 



Dr. W. a. Syme has been promoted from an 

 instructorship in chemistry to be assistant 

 professor of chemistry in the North Carolina 

 College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts, 

 and Mr. Hubert Hill, B.S., M.S. (University 

 of North Carolina), has been appointed in- 

 structor in chemistry. Mr. J. K. Plummer, 



B.S. (North Carolina A. & M. College), has 

 been appointed assistant chemist of the Ex- 

 periment Station. 



Eeginald E. Hore, instructor in petrography 

 at the University of Michigan, has resigned, 

 to take a position of lecturer on- geology at 

 the School of Mining, Kingston, Canada. 



Mr. Ellis L. Edwards (Oklahoma, '05), 

 lately a graduate student at the University 

 of Nebraska, has been appointed tutor in 

 geology at the University of Texas. 



Dr. T. E. Elliott, late scholar of Trinity 

 College, Cambridge, has been elected to a fel- 

 lowship at Clare College. Dr. Elliott was 

 placed in the first class of the Natural Sci- 

 ences Tripos in 1900 and 1901. 



The following have been elected to fellow- 

 ships at St. John's College, Cambridge : Mr. W. 

 L. Balls, M.A., first class of the natural sciences 

 tripos (botany) ; bracketed for the Walsing- 

 ham medal. Mr. Balls is at present engaged 

 in scientific investigations connected with 

 cotton in Egypt. Mr. J. A. Crowther, B.A., 

 first class of the natural sciences tripos 

 (physics) ; Hutchinson research student at St. 

 J ohn's College ; research student at Emmanuel 

 College; Mackinnon student of the Royal 

 Society. Mr. Crovrther is at present residing 

 in Cambridge and is engaged in physical 

 research. 



Dr. F. W. Lamb has resigned his post as 

 assistant lecturer in physiology at University 

 College, Cardiff, on his appointment as senior 

 demonstrator in physiology at Victoria Uni- 

 versity, Manchester, and the council have ap- 

 pointed Mr. E. R. M'Kenzie Wallace, of Cam- 

 bridge University, to succeed him. 



DISCUSSION AND CORRESPONDENCE 

 the training of industrial chemists 

 To THE Editor of Science: The address of 

 Professor F. S. Kipping to the Chemical Sec- 

 tion of the British Association, at the recent 

 Dublin Meeting, and reported in abstract in 

 the current issue of Science (October 30, 

 1908), contains some opinions which deserve 

 the attention of all thoughtful teachers of in- 

 dustrial chemistry. The critical condition of 



