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SCIENCE 



[N. S. Vol. XLVII. No. 1220 



Middletown. The results and their recommen- 

 dations have now been printed in a pamphlet 

 with an introductory article by Professor Wins- 

 low. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL 



NEWS 



Plans are announced for the establishment 

 of a new college for political science in New 

 York City, for which it is said that an annual 

 income of $150,000 is largely secured. The 

 faculty will elect not only the professors but 

 also the trustees, and it is intended that the 

 fullest freedom of teacHng and of research 

 shall be given to the professors. 



Mr. William H. Porter, of New York, has 

 given $50,000 to Middldbury College, to build 

 a hospital. 



By opening its school of medicine to women 

 on the 'Same terms as to men Washington Uni- 

 versity becomes coeducational in all its de- 

 partments, similar change having been ordered 

 a few weeks since in the school of dentistry. 



It is announced that McGill University 

 hereafter will admit women to the study of 

 medicine and dentistry. 



Dr. Herbert E. Hawkes, professor of mathe- 

 matics, who has been acting dean of Columbia 

 College during the absence on leave of Dr. 

 P. P. Keppel, has been appointed by the trus- 

 tees to be dean of the college. Dr. Keppel hav- 

 ing resigned to accept the third assistant sec- 

 retaryship of war. 



Dr. Plorian Cajori has resigned his posi- 

 tion of dean of the department of engineering 

 and professor of mathematics at Colorado Col- 

 lege, and has accepted the appointment as pro- 

 fessor of the history of mathematics in the 

 University of California. 



Professor Otto Glaser, of the University 

 of Michigan, has been appointed professor of 

 biology at Amherst College. 



DISCUSSION AND CORRESPONDENCE 



PROPOSED MAGNETIC AND ALLIED OBSERVA- 

 TIONS DURING THE TOTAL SOLAR 

 eclipse of JUNE 8, 1918 



Special magnetic and allied observations 

 will be made at various points inside and out- 



side the shadow belt of the coming total solar 

 eclipse, by the department of terrestrial mag- 

 netism of the Carnegie Institution of Wash- 

 ington, the Coast and Geodetic Survey, and 

 some other institutions and individuals who 

 have offered their cooperation. 



The general scheme of work proposed by the 

 Carnegie Institution Department of Terres- 

 trial Magnetism embraces the following : 



1. Simultaneous magnetic observations of 

 any or all of the elements according to the 

 instruments at the observer's disposal, every 

 minute from June 8, 1918, Y p.m. to 1 a.m., 

 June 9, Greenwich civil mean time, or from 

 June 8, 7^ to 13^ Greenwich astronomical 

 mean time. 



(To insure the highest degree of accuracy, 

 the observer should begin work early enough 

 to have everything in complete readiness in 

 proper time. See precautions taken in pre- 

 vious eclipse work as described in the journal 

 Terrestrial Magnetism, Yol. V., page 146, and 

 Vol. VII., page 16. Past experience has shown 

 it to he essential that the same ohserver make 

 the readings throughout the entire interval.) 



2. At magnetic observatories, all necessary 

 precautions should be taken to insure that the 

 self-recording instruments will be in good 

 operation not orily during the proposed inter- 

 val but also for some time before and after, 

 and eye-readings should be taken in addition 

 wherever it is possible and convenient. {It is 

 recommended that, in general, the magneto- 

 graph he run on the usual speed throughout 

 the interval, and that, if a change in recording 

 speed he made, every precaution possihle he 

 talcen to guard against instrumental changes 

 lihely to affect the continuity of the hase line.) 



3. Atmospheric-electric observations should 

 be made to the extent possible with the ob- 

 server's equipment and personnel at his dis- 

 posal. 



4. Meteorological observations in accord- 

 ance with the observer's equipment should be 

 made at convenient periods (as short as pos- 

 sible) throughout the interval. It is suggested 

 that, at least, temperature be read every fifth 

 minute (directly after the magnetic reading 

 for that minute). 



