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Dr. Hermann M. Biggs has been elected a 

 member of the international health board of 

 the Eockefeller Foundation for Medical Ee- 

 seareh. 



Professor G. H. Clevenger has resigned as 

 research professor of metallurgy at Stanford 

 University and is now engaged in directing 

 cooperative experimental work in the TJ. S. 

 Bureau of Mines, Netherlands East Indies 

 government, Eesearch Corporation of New 

 York and others. 



Dr. F. E. Carruth, formerly connected with 

 the chemical division of the North Carolina 

 Experiment Station, has become associated 

 with the Schaefer Alkaloid "Works, Maywood, 

 N.J. 



Professor Luigi Luciani, of the chair of 

 physiology at the University of Eome, retires 

 at the end of the present academic year, hav- 

 ing reached the age limit. He has been a mem- 

 ber of the senate and of the national board of 

 public instruction. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL 

 NEWS 



Mrs. Eussell Sage has given $100,000 to 

 Syracuse University. The fund will be de- 

 voted to the direct interests of the John Slo- 

 cum College of Agriculture, which is named 

 after Mrs. Sage's father. 



The new building of the University of Cin- 

 cinnati College of Medicine was dedicated on 

 February 25, the principal speakers being Ma- 

 jor Christian E. Holmes, dean, and Dr. Henry 

 S. Pritchett, president of the Carnegie Found- 

 ation for the Advancement of Teaching. The 

 new medical building was erected and equip- 

 ped at a total cost of approximately $600,000. 



According to the Journal of the American 

 Medical Association, the Ontario legislature 

 has granted to the Ontario University for 

 1918, the following amounts : Western, Lon- 

 don, $20,000 for the public health department ; 

 $15,000 for the medical department; $15,000 

 for the arts, and a special grant of $10,000; 

 Toronto University, large grants, including a 

 special grant of $175,000; Queen's, Kingston, 



$80,000, including a special grant amounting 

 to $25,000. 



Lord Balfour of Burleigh, who presided at 

 the recent annual meeting of the Carn^ie 

 Trust at Westminster stated that experts had 

 reported favorably on the work accomplished 

 during the past year, especially by research 

 students, whose achievements had been of real 

 use to the nation. Assistance to students, un- 

 der payment of class fees for the past year, 

 had been again reduced by £3,000 to £26,000, 

 the beneficiaries numbering 2,112. Scottish 

 university incomes from this source had in 

 five years fallen to about half. This was a 

 serious matter for the universities, and it was 

 hoped that Treasury grants would alleviate 

 the position. An encouraging feature of last 

 year was the voluntary repayment of £1,308 

 by 21 beneficiaries. 



Dr. William M. Jaedin, since 1910 professor 

 of agronomy, and later dean of the division 

 of agriculture and director of the agricultural 

 experiment station of the Kansas State Agri- 

 cultural College, has been elected president 

 of the College. Dr. J. T. Willard, professor of 

 applied chemistry, becomes vice-president. 



Dr. Haery Clark, who was from 1911 to 

 1917 an instructor in physics at Harvard Uni- 

 versity has been appointed professor of physics 

 in Victoria College, Wellington, New Zealand. 



The following have been appointed fellows 

 of University College, London : Miss Harriette 

 Chick, D.Sc, assistant to the director of the 

 Lister Institute of Preventive Medicine; Dr. 

 Ernest Marshall Cowell, M.D.., B.S., F.E.C.S., 

 captain E.A.M.C. ; Dr. Charles Authur Lovatt 

 Evans, D.Sc, professor of physiology in the 

 University of Leeds, major, E.A.M.C; Dr. 

 David Heron, D.Sc, secretary to the London 

 Guarantee and Accident Company; Mr. Will- 

 iam Howard Lister, D.S.O. captain E.A.M.C. ; 

 Mr. Edward Kenneth Martin, F.E.C.S. surg- 

 ical registrar to University College Hospital, 

 major E.A.M.C; Mr. Edward Talbot, Paris 

 B.Sc The following were appointed fellows 

 of King's College. Professor Arthur Dendy, 

 D.Sc, F.E.S. professor of zoology in the Uni- 



