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SCIENCE 



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ciation reports that some statistics have re- 

 cently been published showing that of the 345 

 medical and other scientific journals published 

 in France before the war, about 270 have sus- 

 pended publication. Others have changed from 

 weekly to a monthly issue and others issue only 

 four numbers a year. The total quantity of the 

 paper used by them now does not amount to 

 more than 35 tons a month. The imjwrtant 

 discoveries and experiences of the war and the 

 lessons from them have been spread broadcast 

 by the medical journals, so that surgeons and 

 physicians have been able to keep abreast of 

 progress and thousands of lives have been 

 saved. The organization medical press in 

 France is pleading with the authorities for spe- 

 cial concessions during the period of the pre- 

 vailing scarcity of paper, but no heed has been 

 paid to the appeal as yet. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL 



NEWS 

 Tale University has received from the 

 Kingsley Trust Association (Scroll and Key 

 Society of Tale College) $30,000 to commem- 

 orate the seventy-fifth anniversary last year of 

 the founding of the society. This is to be 

 added to the endowrment of the Kingsley Trust 

 Association Publication Fund, established by 

 the members of the Society in 1914, and will 

 increase the total of this to $50,000 ; making 

 it the largest publication fund held by the 

 imiversity. The income of the original $20,- 

 000 is used for publications through the Tale 

 University Press in the field of history. 



The Massachusetts State College is re- 

 questing a state appropriation of $100,000 for 

 the development of women's work at the in- 

 stitution, $70,000 being for a women's building 

 and $30,000 for maintenance until November 

 30, 1920. 



In response to a request from the gun pro- 

 duction of the Ordnance Department, United 

 States army, the school of applied science of 

 New Tork University has put its testing lab- 

 orato]^ at the service of the government. 



Thomas P. Cooper, director of station and 

 extension work in North Dakota, has been ap- 



pointed dean of the Kentucky College of Agri- 

 culture and director of the Experiment Station. 



Dr. H. G. Knight, dean of the college of 

 agriculture and director of the experiment 

 station of the University of "Wyoming, has 

 accepted the corresponding position at the 

 Oklahoma College and Station, effective Feb- 

 ruary 1, and has been succeeded at Wyoming 

 by A. D. Faville. 



Professor Harvey Evert Huber, professor 

 of biology and geology at Ohio Northern Uni- 

 versity since 1913, has resigned to accept the 

 professorship of biology at Bluffton College. 

 He will assume his new position in September. 



L. T. Anderegg, in charge of the department 

 of chemistry in the high school at Decatur, 

 111., has accepted the position at the Kansas 

 State Agricultural College in chemical analysis 

 which was left vacant by the resignation of 

 E. C. Wiley. 



Dr. Gerald L. Wendt has been appointed 

 assistant professor of chemistry and curator 

 of the Kent chemical laboratory at the Uni- 

 versity of Chicago. He has charge of the in- 

 struction in quantitative analysis and in radio- 

 activity. 



Lina Stern, privatdozent in the University 

 of Geneva, has been appointed professor ex- 

 traordinary of physiological chemistry. 



DISCUSSION AND CORRESPONDENCE 



SPECTROSCOPIC investigation 



To the Editor of Science: An exceptional 

 opportunity for spectroscopic investigation now 

 exists in this country and it seems desirable 

 that it should have the wide publicity of the 

 columns of Science. The Mining Experiment 

 Station at Golden, Colorado, under the Fed- 

 eral Bureau of Mines, specializes in the radium 

 products and the rare gases which are asso- 

 ciated with their production. It is likely that 

 larger quantities of the radium emanation, 

 for instance, are available there for research 

 than anywhere else in the world at the present 

 time. 



A visit to this interesting laboratory last au- 

 tumn disclosed the presence there of a lai^e 



