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originated in this way, and the board is making 

 inquires as to the local prevalence of the car- 

 rier mosquitoes, and taking other precautions 

 in regard to the disease. 



Mk. Pall F. Gaeiik, who spent the past 

 year in research at Cornell University, will 

 next year resume charge of the physics depart- 

 ment at Wells College. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL 

 NEWS 



The University of Illinois college of medi- 

 cine announces that, beginning with June 3, it 

 will operate on the quadrimester system. In 

 this system there will be three terms of four 

 months each per calendar year. The courses 

 will be so arranged that it will be possible for 

 a student to enter the school at the beginning 

 of any one of the three terms. 



After September of this year at Columbia 

 University the doctorate of medicine of the 

 medical school will be conferred only upon 

 men who have had, in addition to four years at 

 the medical school, one full year of service at 

 a hospital under faculty supervision. 



Dr. Willard J. Fisher, at present honorary 

 fellow in physics at Clark University and lec- 

 turer in physics at Worcester Polytechnic In- 

 stitute, goes to Manila as assistant professor 

 in physics at the University of the Philippines, 

 with duties to begin about July first. 



Mr. Kirtley F. M.\ther has resigned his 

 position at Queen's University and has ac- 

 cepted the professorship of geology at Denison 

 University, Granville, Ohio. 



Dr. Fraxcis M. Van Tuyl, assistant pro- 

 fessor of geology and mineralogy in the Colo- 

 rado School of Mines, has been promoted to 

 an associate professorship. 



David D. Leib has been promoted from asso- 

 ciate professor to a full professor of mathe- 

 matics in Connecticut College, New London. 



Dr. George A. Baitsell, instructor in biol- 

 ogy in Yale College, was appointed an assist- 

 ant professor of biology at the March meeting 

 of the Yale Corporation. 



Mr. Walter S. Beach, who will take his doc- 

 torate with his thesis in plant pathology this 

 coming commencement, at the University of 

 Illinois, has been appointed as instructor for 

 plant pathological research in the Pennsyl- 

 vania State Collie. He will have charge of 

 a separate laboratory located near Philadel- 

 phia and is to take up his work at once. 



DISCUSSION AND CORRESPONDENCE 



PROFESSIONAL COURTESY 



In the March 8, 1918, nxmiber of Science 

 there appeared from Professor McCollum and 

 Miss Nina Simmonds a reply to Professor 

 Hart's statement on professional courtesy in 

 Science, March 1, 1918. As the former in- 

 troduce a question of veracity in a statement 

 concerning me and as they express an eager- 

 ness to be judged on " research records " I feel 

 it my duty for the enlightenment of the public 

 to call attention to evidence furnished by such 

 " research records." 



It is significant that the article published 

 by Professor McCollum and Nina Simmonds 

 as coming from the Laboratory of Agricultural 

 Chemistry of the University of Wisconsin and 

 to which Professor Hart referred as not indi- 

 cating proper authorship, was published with- 

 out the legend " Published with the permission 

 of the Director of the Wisconsin Experiment 

 Station." All publications coming from this 

 station are required to have this official stamp 

 of approval. That the authors complied with 

 this regulation for years and violated it in 

 this and two other recent contributions, is 

 truly significant. 



It is also significant that the said authors 

 have not given proper credit to this institution 

 for work done by them at Wisconsin. 

 There has appeared in the February, 1918, 

 nutmber of the Journal of Biological Chemistry 

 an article purporting to come as a contribution 

 by E. V. McCollum and N. Simmonds from 

 the Laboratory of Biochemistry of the School 

 of Hygiene and Public Health of the Johns 

 Hopkins University. The article was received 

 for publication December 26, 1917, only twenty- 

 five weeks after the authors, E. V. McCollum 

 and N. Simmonds, had severed their official 

 connection with the University of Wisconsin, 

 yet in this article there were published as bona 

 fide new contributions thirteen growth curves 

 of rats extending over periods of twenty-eight 



