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a course of instruction at the Naval Medical 

 School. During this course he receives full 

 pay and allowances of his rank, and at the 

 end of the course he takes a final examination. 

 Two of these courses begin each year, one com- 

 mencing about the first of October, and the 

 second course beginning early in February. 

 The examinations are held in several of the 

 coast cities in the United States, both on the 

 east coast and the west coast, and also at 

 Chicago, 111. Literature describing the navy 

 as a special field for medical work, and cir- 

 culars of information for persons desiring to 

 enter the medical corps, may be obtained by 

 addressing the Surgeon General, IT. S. Navy, 

 Navy Department, Washington, D. C. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL 

 NEWS 



By the will of Mrs. Mary W. Harkness, 

 widow of Charles W. Harkness, about $1,100,- 

 000 is bequeathed to public purposes. The 

 largest bequest is $300,000 to Tale University, 

 the income to be used in the payment of 

 salaries of officers of instruction. 



Boston University has received an anony- 

 mous gift of $100,000 for scholarships for 

 young men in the college. The gift is made 

 in honor of Augustus Howe Buck, emeritus 

 professor of Greek. 



Professor and Mrs. William A. Herdman, 

 of the University of Liverpool, have given to 

 the university the sum of £10,000 for the en- 

 dowment of a chair in geology in memory of 

 their son, who was killed in the war. 



Paul Sabine, of Harvard University, has 

 been appointed assistant professor of physics 

 at the Case School of Applied Science and will 

 have charge of the physics laboratory. 



Dr. A. B. Davis, formerly research assistant 

 at the graduate laboratory, Missouri Botanical 

 Garden (Shaw School of Botany, Washington 

 University), has been appointed assistant pro- 

 fessor of botany at the University of Nebraska. 

 Mr. E. A. Studhalter and Mr. H. C. Young, 

 formerly Bufus J. Lackland research fellows 

 in the same institution, have been appointed, 

 respectively, assistant botanist in the Mon- 



tana Agricultural Experiment Station and in- 

 structor in botany in the Michigan Agricul- 

 tural College. Miss Euth Beattie has ac- 

 cepted a position as instructor in botany at 

 Wellesley College. 



At the University of Sheffield Dr. W. E. S. 

 Turner has been appointed lecturer in charge 

 of the new department of glass technology. 



DISCUSSION AND CORRESPONDENCE 



PSYCHOLOGY AND MEDICAL EDUCATION 



To the Editor of Science: In your issue 

 of 'November 10, Dr. Cecil K. Drinker has ap- 

 proached the problem of advising students 

 planning to enter the medical profession as to 

 what courses over and above those required 

 they can most profitably give their attention 

 to during their college years. Dr. Drinker has 

 urged the undergraduate to take as much 

 physics and chemistry as possible: I should 

 like to enter a similar plea in favor of psy- 

 chology. 



The importance of a knowledge of psychol- 

 ogy to all persons engaged in the practise of 

 medicine is, no doubt, widely recognized by 

 both practitioners and teachers of that sci- 

 ence and art to-day, and the value of psycho- 

 logical study as a part of medical education 

 received special attention in a symposium and 

 report on the subject in Science for October 

 17, 1913. Little has been heard of the matter 

 recently, however, and I feel it can do no harm 

 to bring up the subject again in the hope that 

 real interest may be aroused in pushing it more 

 effectively to the front. 



The conclusions of the report referred to 

 clearly enunciate the need of more cooperation 

 than is at present existent between psychol- 

 ogists and — not only psychiatrists, whose con- 

 cern is primarily with the problems of the dis- 

 eased mind — but also the physicians of the 

 body. Eor all schools of psychology to-day 

 acknowledge and even emphasize the insepa- 

 rableness of mental states and processes from 

 the physiological conditions which underlie or 

 at least invariably accompany them, and med- 

 ical men are fully aware of the influence which 

 mental states have upon the health of the body. 



