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can dyestuff industry and subversive of the best 

 interests of the American people. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL 

 NEWS 



At the September meeting of the Yale Cor- 

 poration the treasurer reported further dis- 

 tribution of about $685,000 from the estate of 

 the late Justus S. Hotchkiss of New Haven. 

 Other gifts include approximately $10,000 

 additional for the Hepsa Ely Silliman Lec- 

 tureship Fund, from the estate of the late 

 Augustus E. Silliman; $15,000 for the Charles 

 W. Goodyear Memorial Scholarship Eund in 

 the School of Forestry; and $5,000 more from 

 Mrs. Helen Newberry Joy and Messrs. John 

 S. and Truman Newberry for the work of re- 

 building and enlarging the Newberry organ in 

 Woolsey Hall. 



The Journal of the American Medical Asso- 

 ciation announces that one of the final trans- 

 actions of the merger of the medical school 

 of the University of Pennsylvania, the Medico- 

 Chirurgical College, and Jefferson Medical 

 College was consummated, September 21, when 

 the real estate holdings of the Medico-Chirur- 

 gical College were transferred to the trustees 

 of the university. The college buildings, 

 assessed at $375,550, and two four-story houses, 

 assessed at a total of $54,000, were conveyed 

 for a nominal consideration. These will even- 

 tually be conveyed to the city by the university 

 and the buildings demolished, as they are in 

 the line of the new parkway. 



The department of botany of the Massa- 

 chusetts Agricultural College and Experiment 

 Station has been reorganized with the follow- 

 ing personnel: A. Vincent Osmun, professor 

 and head of the department ; George H. Chap- 

 man, research physiologist; P. J. Anderson, 

 associate professor and associate pathologist; 

 Orton L. Clark, assistant professor and assist- 

 ant physiologist; F. A. McLaughlin, instruc- 

 tor; G. W. Martin, instructor. 



Tufts Medical School announces several 

 changes in the faculty. Andrew H. Ryan, 

 M.D. (Washington University), will take 

 charge of the department of physiology. 



Charles H. Baily, M.D. (Harvard), has been 

 made associate professor of histology. R. Har- 

 mon Ashley, Ph.D. (Tale), will take charge 

 of the department of chemistry in the dental 

 and pre-medical school. Arthur L. Chute, 

 M.D., has been advanced from assistant pro- 

 fessor to associate professor of surgery, and 

 Gilmore C. Dickey, D.M.D., from instructor 

 to assistant professor of crown and bridge 

 work. 



Northwestern University has appointed 

 the following instructors : In the department 

 of mathematics: Rutherford Erwin Gleason, 

 B.A., Charles Edwin Wilder, Ph.D., Frank 

 Edwin Wood, B.A., and Irwin Romans, M.A. ; 

 in the department of chemistry: Martin Wil- 

 liam Lisse, M.S. (University of Washington), 

 and Wallace Jennings Murray, Sc.D. (Geneva, 

 Switzerland), instructors in chemistry; Louis 

 Wade Currier, B.S. (Mass. Tech.), instructor 

 in mining and metallurgy. The following 

 promotions have also been made: George 

 Vest McCauley, Ph.D. (Wisconsin), becomes 

 assistant professor of physics, and Chester 

 Henry Veaton, Ph.D. (Chicago), assistant pro- 

 fessor of mathematics. Henry Andrews Bab- 

 cock, Ph.D. (Northwestern), has been ap- 

 pointed an instructor in physics. 



Frederick Lyons Brown, of Northwestern 

 University, has been appointed instructor in 

 astronomy for the Dearborn Observatory. 



Dr. S. Morgulis, of the department of phys- 

 iological chemistry, college of physicians and 

 surgeons, Columbia University, has been ap- 

 pointed professor of physiology in the 

 Creighton University Medical College, Omaha, 

 Nebraska. 



Under the general direction of Mr. A. G. 

 Perkin, who is a son of Sir W. H. Perkin and 

 brother of Professor Perkin, of Oxford, a new 

 staff has been appointed to the dyeing depart- 

 ment of the University of Leeds. Some of 

 the members will give special attention to the 

 exclusive requirements of British Dyes 

 (Limited), but most of them will devote their 

 services to work which may best meet the 

 needs of other firms. In addition to the scien- 



