October 27, 1916] 



SCIENCE 



607 



estuarian sands, clays and calcareous beds. 

 Dr. Hubbard devoted the remainder of the 

 summer to working for the Ohio Geologic 

 Survey, part of the time in the field and part 

 of the time writing. The preparation of the 

 Bulletin for the State Survey, in the physiog- 

 raphy of the state of Ohio, is well advanced. 

 It is hoped that the manuscript may be ready 

 for the printer by next year. 



Nature states that before the war Eussian 

 men of science, and especially biologists, had to 

 send a very considerable proportion of their 

 writings abroad for publication, and the Ger- 

 man journals thus became the common medium 

 for much of the best Eussian work. Soon after 

 the outbreak of war efforts were made to rem- 

 edy this state of affairs; of the new journals, 

 Professors Shimkewitch and Dogiel are editing 

 the Russian Journal of Zoology, Professors 

 Sewertzoff and Elpatiewsky the Revue Zoolo- 

 gique Russe, and Professor Dogiel the Archives 

 Busses d'Anatomie, d'Histologie et d'Embryol- 

 ogie. The first number of the latter has just 

 appeared. In spite of the enormous drain on 

 Eussian finances, the minister of public in- 

 struction made the publication of this journal 

 possible by a government subsidy. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL 

 NEWS 



A gift of $60,000 for an observatory and 

 36-inch telescope has been given to the Uni- 

 versity of Arizona by a donor whose name is 

 withheld. 



The University of Pennsylvania has re- 

 ceived $25,000 from the estate of Anna Yar- 

 nall, the income of which is to be used for 

 the maintenance of the Botanic Gardens of 

 the university. 



Eobert W. Kelly, of New York, of the 

 class of '74, has given $125,000 to the Yale 

 Alumni Fund. 



The new ceramic engineering building of 

 the University of Illinois is to be formally 

 dedicated on November 20 and 21. It is ex- 

 pected that the exercises will be attended by 

 many representatives of the architectural, 

 structural, mining, geological, chemical and 



manufacturing interests. In connection with 

 the dedication exercises an industrial confer- 

 ence will be held, in which a number of topics 

 of current interest to the ceramic engineer, the 

 clay-worker and the manufacturer will be dis- 

 cussed by well-known experts. The ceramics 

 building is a fireproof structure three stories 

 high and with basement. 



The salaries of all full professors at Brown 

 University has been increased by $400. The 

 minimum salary is now $3,000 and the maxi- 

 mum salary, except for administrative officers, 

 is $3,650. 



Dr. Arthur E. Edwards has resigned as 

 dean of Northwestern University Medical 

 School. Arthur I. Kendall, professor of bac- 

 teriology,, has been made acting dean. 



Dr. Otto Dunkel, of the University of 

 Missouri, has been appointed assistant pro- 

 fessor of mathematics at Washington Univer- 

 sity, St. Louis. 



Professor William H. Kavanaugh, who has 

 been a member of the engineering staff of the 

 University of Minnesota for fifteen years, has 

 resigned his position as professor of experi- 

 mental engineering to accept a professorship 

 in the Towne Scientific School of the Uni- 

 versity of Pennsylvania. 



Ealph Patterson Eoyce, formerly livestock 

 editor of the Missouri Farmer, has been ap- 

 pointed instructor in animal husbandry at the 

 University of California Farm. 



The following appointments have been made 

 in the laboratories of the University of 

 Nebraska, College of Medicine, Omaha : H. E. 

 Eggers, B.Sc, M.A. (Wisconsin), M.D. 

 (Bush), professor of pathology and bacteriol- 

 ogy; John T. Myers, A.B. (Washburn), M.S. 

 (Kansas), instructor in bacteriology; Amos 

 W. Peters, A.M., Ph.D. (Harvard), assistant 

 professor of bio-chmemistry. 



Dr. Ardrey W. Downs, formerly professor 

 of physiology at the Medico-Chirurgical Col- 

 lege, Philadelphia, has accepted the chair of 

 physiology at McGill University, Montreal. 



Professor H. Hahn, of Czernowitz, has 

 been appointed professor of mathematics at 

 Bonn. 



