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SCIENCE 



[N. S. Vol. XLIV. No. 1143 



after presentation is to be brought out in book 

 form by the Yale University Press. The pro- 

 gram follows : 

 I. The Genesis of the Earth. Professor Joseph 

 Barrell. November 23. 

 II. The Earth's Changing Surface and Climate. 

 Professor Charles Schuchert. December 13. 



III. The Origin of Life. Professor Lorande Loss 



Woodruff. January 24. 



IV. The Pulse of Life. Professor Richard Swann 



Lull. February 15. 

 V. Climate and Civilization. Dr. Ellsworth 

 Huntington. April 20. 



Thus there will be discussed: (1) The 

 genesis of the earth and the rise of conditions 

 necessary for the maintenance of life; (2) the 

 surface changes, the great cycles of climatic 

 change, and their cause or causes; (3) the 

 origin of organic life on earth, the time, place 

 and conditions necessary, and the changes 

 undergone by matter to render it organic or 

 possessed of life; (4) the march of organic 

 evolution, not a slow process progressing at a 

 constant rate of change, but rhythmic, the 

 pulses or times of acceleration being coincident 

 with and the direct outcome of the climatic 

 and geologic changes already described. This 

 includes the origin of man from his prehuman 

 ancestry. (5) The recent climatic changes 

 whose existence has been traced and recorded 

 and which are found to have influenced the 

 growth of civilization, the rise and migrations 

 of peoples, and in some instances their fall 

 from an estate of commanding importance. 

 A prophecy of human destiny may here be 

 given. 



These lectures are to be given at the regular 

 meetings of the society and therefore will not 

 be open to the general public, but are to be the 

 especial privilege of the members of Sigma Xi 

 and a limited number of their friends to whom 

 tickets of admission will be given. The lec- 

 tures are to be held in Osborn Memorial 

 Laboratory. 



THE ENDOWMENT OF A MEDICAL 



SCHOOL AT THE UNIVERSITY 



OF CHICAGO 



A correspondent at the University of Chi- 

 cago sends us the following information con- 



cerning the endowment of a medical school 

 noted in the last issue of Science : 



In outlining the plans and hopes of the Univer- 

 sity of Chicago at its recent quarter-centennial 

 celebration President Harry Pratt Judson said 

 that what was needed to complete a school of medi- 

 cine at the university was provision for clinical 

 work and a clinical staff at the Midway, and that 

 in his judgment the first need was for a hospital 

 wholly under the control of the university, for med- 

 ical teaching and for medical research; and the 

 second need was provision of adequate endow- 

 ment, in order that the hospital itself might be be- 

 yond the necessity of being financed by income 

 from its patients, and in order that the medical 

 faculty might be free to pursue their work of in- 

 vestigation and instruction without recourse to 

 personal practise. 



In direct fulfilment of this hope and plan, the 

 university board of trustees has just made one of 

 the most important announcements in the history 

 of the institution. The plan announced to be put 

 into early operation provides for an undergradu- 

 ate medical school, a graduate medical school and 

 medical research. The first mentioned will be on 

 the Midway Plaisanee, in close connection with the 

 science departments of the university. The stand- 

 ards of admission and of graduation will be as 

 high as those of any medical school in the country. 

 The number of students will be limited to such as 

 can receive the best possible training with the 

 facilities available. 



A teaching hospital, duly equipped with neces- 

 sary laboratories and lecture rooms, will provide 

 for clinical instruction. Suitable endowments will 

 free the hospital from the necessity of depending 

 on paying patients, and the faculty from the ne- 

 cessity of practise for a livelihood. 



The graduate medical school will be on the west 

 side in connection with the work now done by the 

 Eush Medical College and the Presbyterian Hos- 

 pital. It will provide for medical graduates who 

 wish further training and for practitioners who 

 wish to keep in touch with progress in medical 

 science. Research will be carried on in both places 

 under arrangements to be announced later. 



The plan involves an addition to the resources of 

 the university of the sum of five million three hun- 

 dred thousand dollars, one million for the hospital 

 on the Midway, three hundred thousand for a lab- 

 oratory on the west side and four millions for en- 

 dowment. 



Towards the endowment fund the Rockefeller 

 Foundation offers one million dollars and the 



