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SCIENCE 



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the new city hospital under the direction of 

 the University of Cincinnati. The charter 

 provides that the medical director of each de- 

 partment shall be the professor in the cor- 

 responding department of the medical college 

 and that the board constituted of these direc- 

 tors shall nominate to the board, through the 

 president, all members of the staff of the 

 hosiptal, including the superintendent, who 

 shall be the general executive and business 

 manager of the hospital. This superintendent 

 will select all the other employees under the 

 rules of the Civil Service Commission of the 

 city. The charter thus removes the hospital 

 entirely from the sphere of politics, places all 

 the medical, scientific and nursing work under 

 the direction of the medical college, and 

 secures all the facilities of the hospital for the 

 purposes of education and research. The 

 plans for the hospital were made by Dr. Chris- 

 tian R. Holmes, dean of the medical faculty, 

 and the whole building scheme has been 

 worked out to conform to these plans. 



The new building of the medical college, 

 situated upon a twelve-acre lot immediately 

 across the street from the hospital, has just 

 been completed and occupied. This gives Cin- 

 cinnati a complete medical teaching and re- 

 search plant, costing over $5,000,000. The 

 medical college is a regular department of the 

 university, which pays all its expenses. The 

 city will continue to pay the general operat- 

 ing expenses of the hospital, such as the heat- 

 ing and lighting, food, engineers, janitors, etc., 

 while the university will pay all the expenses 

 of the medical, surgical, scientific and nursing 

 service. The total expenses to the city of 

 operating the combined medical college and 

 hospital plant will be, not including income on 

 endowments, approximately $700,000 a year. 



The same charter provides for a reorganiza- 

 tion of the board of directors of the university, 

 who will now be appointed, one each year, to 

 serve for nine years. The newly elected mayor 

 has just announced the reappointment of the 

 former board, which has managed the affairs of 

 the university so successfully in recent times. 

 Its members are: Judge E. B. Smith, chair- 

 man, Mr. O. J. Eenner, Dr. D. I. Wolfstein, 



Mr. Stanford Brown, Dr. W. R. Griess, Mr. 

 Robert W. Hochstetter, Mr. A. E. Morgan, Mr. 

 Emil Pollak, and Dr. E. O. Straehley. This is 

 the second time that the members of the board 

 have been reappointed, much to the gratifica- 

 tion of the friends of the university. For the 

 reappointment of faithful and experienced men 

 gives a stability to the institution and creates 

 a confidence in the administration which is 

 bearing fine fruits in gifts of endowment. The 

 Baldwin estate, amounting to over $800,000, 

 will be turned over to the university this 

 month. 



DESTRUCTION BY FIRE OF SCIENTIFIC 

 LABORATORIES 



Mount Holyoke College lost by fire on De- 

 cember 22 Lyman Williston Hall, the oldest 

 of its science laboratories. The building 

 housed the departments of botany, geology, 

 psychology, physiology and zoology. The loss 

 to the college is practically complete and is 

 estimated at more than $100,000. It includes 

 the museums of botany, zoology and geology, 

 the last especially rich in the dinosaur foot- 

 prints of the Connecticut Valley and the lab- 

 oratory equipments and libraries of all the de- 

 partments mentioned. In several instances 

 members of the faculty lost their entire private 

 collections and working libraries as well as the 

 results of prolonged research work. Plans are 

 already begun for temporary quarters and such 

 material and equipment as can be replaced will 

 be secured as fast as possible, so that even at 

 this season of difficult purchase the college 

 work in the sciences concerned may go on 

 without serious interference. If other insti- 

 tutions or private individuals have duplicate 

 museum material, macroscopic slides which 

 they do not need, extra laboratory equipment 

 difficult to procure at this time, or duplicates 

 of out-of-print books, the heads of the various 

 departments will be glad to learn of this in 

 order to arrange for loan or purchase. In par- 

 ticular, those who have sent reprints to Mount 

 Holyoke before may be helpful by repeating 

 their courtesy, if possible, since much time 

 wiU be needed to replace files of periodicals. 

 Dr. Cornelia M. Clapp, for many years head 

 of the department of zoology and physiology. 



