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SCIENCE 



[N. S. Vol. XXVIII. No. 726 



January 26 — " Lewis and Clark Expedition to 

 the Head of the Columbia," Warren K. Moorehead. 



February 9 — " Lewis and Clark Expedition to 

 the Pacific," Warren K. Moorehead. 



February 23 — " Caves at Home and Abroad," 

 Charles Peabody. 



March 9 — " Social Life of the American In- 

 dians," Warren K. Moorehead. 



March 23 — " Lake Dwellings and the Bronze 

 and Iron Cultures," Charles Peabody. 



April 13 — " Origin, Accomplishments and Des- 

 tiny of the American Indians," Warren K. Moore- 

 head. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS 

 At the annual Micliigan Union banquet at 

 the University of Michigan Mr. Clarence W. 

 Barbour, representing the Michigan alumni in 

 New York, announced that plans had been per- 

 fected and funds subscribed for the erection 

 of a $300,000 dormitory, with a large " com- 

 mons." 



The H. K. Gushing Laboratory of Experi- 

 mental Medicine at Western Reserve Univer- 

 sity was dedicated on the afternoon of No- 

 vember 20, when Dr. H. W. Welch, of the 

 Johns Hopkins Medical School, made the prin- 

 cipal address. The building, complete in all 

 its appointments, is of reinforced concrete, 

 faced with brick. It is 55 X 40 feet, and con- 

 sists of four floors. On the first floor is a 

 large room for chemical work, and in connec- 

 tion with this is a balance room, the balances 

 being arranged on a solid concrete pier. A 

 workshop, a store room, a dark room for photo- 

 graphic purposes, and for the reception of a 

 centrifugal, complete the accommodation on 

 the first floor. On the second floor is the 

 library, and one large and several smaU rooms 

 for individual investigations. Also, a refrig- 

 erator room, a room for maintaining a con- 

 stant temperature and a chemical store room. 

 The third floor has several rooms for students, 

 and the fourth rooms for the study of nutri- 

 tion in animals under the influence of dif- 

 ferent diets, with a view to throwing light on 

 the diseases of nutrition in man. The build- 

 ing is practically fireproof. The laboratory is 

 named for Dr. H. K. Gushing, who was for 

 many years associated with the Cleveland 

 Medical College, which later became the medi- 



cal department of Western Eeserve University. 

 Dr. George N. Stewart is professor of experi- 

 mental medicine and director of the labora- 

 tory. 



The Rev. Dr. W. A. Shanklin, president of 

 Upper Iowa University, has been elected presi- 

 dent of Wesleyan University. 



Dk. Frederic E. Faerington, who spent last 

 year in France, studying especially the sec- 

 ondary schools of that country, goes this year 

 from the University of California to the de- 

 partment of education in the University of 

 Texas. In the latter institution he occupies 

 the newly-established chair of associate pro- 

 fessor of education in charge of the observa- 

 tion and practise of teaching. 



Dr. Stanley R. Benedict, formerly assist- 

 ant in physiological chemistry at Tale Uni- 

 versity, has been appointed instructor at Syra- 

 cuse University. 



Howard Lane Blackwell, Ph.D., has been 

 appointed feUow for research in physics at 

 Harvard University. 



DISCUSSION AND CORRESPONDENCE 



SIDE ISSUES BEARING ON THE AGE OF NIAGARA 

 FALLS 



In a late issue of Science (July 31, 1908), 

 a notice of my recent book upon Niagara 

 Falls was published by Dr. G. K Gilbert,' 

 which is chiefly a discussion of three minor 

 problems, the treatment of which could 

 scarcely be considered a necessary digression 

 from the main issue of my book. In his deal- 

 ing with these, a doubt is left as to the cor- 

 rectness of my conclusions regarding the age 

 of Niagara Falls; and a substitution is given 

 in his own behalf, announcing, without the 

 evidence, that their duration is more than four 

 times that of my computation, which com- 

 putation was based upon the most carefully 

 measured details of the work accomplished 

 during each stage of the physical changes of 

 the river. This correspondence is cordially 

 welcomed in that it renews the interest in 

 the subject, for as Professor James Geikie has 



'■ " Evolution of the Falls of Niagara," by J. W. 

 Spencer, pp. i-xxxi, 1-490, Gieological Survey of 

 Canada, 1907. 



