JrxE U, 1918] 



SCIENCE 



587 



Dr. E. E. Southard, of the Harvard Med- 

 ical School and the Massachusetts State Psy- 

 chopathic Hospital, grave a lecture on May 14 

 at the University of Chicago on " War neu- 

 roses after the war." 



The Kamsay Memorial Fund, founded 

 under the presidency of Mr. Asquith to raise 

 £100.000 for Ramsay Memorial Fellowships in 

 chemical science, and a laboratory of engineer- 

 ing chemistry at University College, London, 

 has made considerable progress in recent 

 months. Subscriptions and promises to date 

 amount to £32,600. The latest donations in- 

 clude: M. Eugene Schneider, £500; Lady 

 Durning Lawrence, £100 (second donation) ; 

 Sir G. H. Kenrick, £100; Academic des Sci- 

 ences de I'Institut de France (of which Sir 

 William Ramsay was a corresponding mem- 

 ber), £80; the Fertilizer Manufacturers' Asso- 

 ciation, £52 10 s. ; his Highness the Maharaja 

 Dhiraj of Patiala, £50. " Memorials of the 

 Life and Work of Sir William Ramsay," by 

 Sir William A. Tilden, will be published 

 shortly by the Macmillans. 



In memory of Lieutenant William T. Fitz- 

 simon, Kansas City, who was killed last Sep- 

 tember, when the German airplanes bombarded 

 the Harvard University Hospital in France, 

 the park commissioners of Kansas City have 

 decided to erect a memorial in the form of a 

 public drinking fountain which will bear an 

 inscription relating the details of Dr. Fitz- 

 simon's work and death. 



Charles Christopher Trowbridoe, assist- 

 ant professor of physics in Columbia Univer- 

 sity, died suddenly on June 2, aged forty-eight 

 years. Dr. Trowbridge was the author of re- 

 searches on fluorescence and phosphoreseene in 

 gases and also on physical aspects of the 

 flight and migration of birds. 



Dr. Joseph Dexiker, the distinguished 

 French anthropologist, died on March 18, aged 

 sixty-six years. Dr. Deniker, who was chief 

 librarian of the Paris Natural History Mu- 

 seum, was bom in Russia. 



Alfred Gordon Solomon, of London, known 

 for his contributions to the chemistry of 

 brewing, has died in his sixtieth year. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL 

 NEWS 



A GIFT of $400,000 to the Massachusetts In- 

 stitute of Technology was announced by Presi- 

 dent Richard C. Maclaurin at a meeting of 

 the corporation on Juno 7. The name of the 

 donor was not made public. The income of 

 the fund will be used for general purposes of 

 the institute during the war and thereafter ap- 

 plied to the development of courses in chemis- 

 try and physics. 



The alliance between Columbia University 

 and the Presbyterian Hospital, which was first 

 made in 1911, and was planned to result in the 

 establishment of a great medical center in 

 New York City, has been cancelled by the 

 managers of the hospital. Columbia Univer- 

 sity was unable to obtain the money needed 

 for its share of the buildings and rejected the 

 plans proposed as a condition of an endow- 

 ment from the Rockefeller Foundation. 



Dr. John T. Faig, professor of mechanical 

 engineering in the University of Cincinnati, 

 has been appointed president of the Ohio Me- 

 chanics Institute, succeeding Professor John 

 Shearer, who has been head of the institute 

 for twenty years. Professor Faig is now 

 taking charge of the college of engineering in 

 the absence of Dean Herman Schneider, who 

 is engaged in military service in Washington. 



Dr. F. Ocaranza, professor of physiology at 

 the University of Mexico, has been appointed 

 secretary of the faculty of medicine. He is at 

 the same time secretary of the Academy of 

 Medicine. 



Thomas J. Mackie has been appointed pro- 

 fessor of bacteriology in the South African 

 Medical College, Cape Town. 



Db. T. Franklin Sibly, of University Col- 

 lege, Cardiff, has been appointed professor of 

 geology at Armstrong College, Newcastle-upon- 

 Tyne, in succession to the late Professor Le- 

 bour. 



DISCUSSION AND CORRESPONDENCE 



DESMOGNATHUS FUSCUS AGAIN 



In Science (N. S., Vol. 47, Apr. 19, 1918, 

 pp. 390-391) Professor H. H. Wilder under 

 the heading " Desmognathus fuscus [sic]" has 



