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spite the fact that the income on a large part 
of the John Stewart Kennedy bequest is now 
available. The largest single item of expense 
is for educational administration and instruc- 
tion, $2,180,402. Next to this come appropri- 
ations for buildings and grounds, the sum 
being $332,593. The interest on the corporate 
debt will amount to $114,870, while $100,000 
will be set aside and added to the redemption 
‘fund. Stated according to the various cor- 
porations of the university, the budget is di- 
vided as follows: Columbia Oollege, $2,101,- 
512.28; Barnard College, $217,725; Teachers 
College, $803,470; College of Pharmacy, $37,- 
020. 
A SPECIAL meeting of the Oberlin trustees 
was held on March 13 to consider plans pre- 
sented by Mr. Cass Gilbert, of New York 
' City, regarding the location of the new build- 
ings made possible by the completion of the 
half million endowment. Mr. Gilbert’s plans 
include a science quadrangle at the northwest 
end of the campus. Here it is proposed to 
erect four large laboratories to accommodate 
the departments of physics, zoology, geology 
and botany. Part of the equipment of the 
botanical building will be a series of green- 
houses. The department of chemistry is al- 
ready comfortably housed in a separate build- 
ing, Severance Chemical Laboratory. 
Dr. Horacr Dav Arnoup has been ap- 
pointed dean of the Harvard Medical School 
to fill the place made vacant by the resigna- 
tion of Dr. Henry A. Christian. 
Dr. Tatcorr WiLLiaMs, associate editor of 
the Philadelphia Press, has been appointed 
director of the School of Journalism of Co- 
lumbia University, founded by Mr. Pullitzer. 
Professor John W. Cunliffe, now head of the 
department of English of the University of 
Wisconsin, is the associate director of the 
school. 
Dr. Douctas W. JoHnson, assistant pro- 
fessor of physiography in Harvard University, 
has been appointed associate professor of 
physiography at Columbia University. 
Dr. J. E. Wattace WALLIN has accepted a 
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call from the University of Pittsburgh to or- 
ganize a department of clinical psychology. 
Dr. Murray S. Witpman, A.B. (Earlham, 
93), Ph.D. (Chicago, 04), now professor of 
economics and commerce in Northwestern 
University, has been appointed professor of 
economics in the Leland Stanford Jr. Uni- 
versity, to fill the vacancy caused by the resig- 
nation of Professor Alvin S. Johnson, who 
goes to Cornell University at the close of the 
present academic year. 
Dr. H. W. Foote has been promoted to be 
professor of physical chemistry in the Shef- 
field Scientific School of Yale University. 
DISCUSSION AND CORRESPONDENCE 
THE CORN SNAKE IN NEW JERSEY 
Waite at Chatsworth, Burlington County, 
N. J., on July 11, 1911, I called on Mr. George 
Bozarth, the hotelkeeper, who buys up loeal 
snakes, excepting rattlesnakes, of which there 
are still a few in that part of the pine bar- 
rens. Noting that the box where he kept his 
reptiles contained only pine and king snakes, 
I inquired if he had any other species. He 
replied that he had but the day before thrown 
out a corn snake, which had died. He added 
he had but few of that kind brought in, but 
that they were to be occasionally met with in 
the vicinity. After some search we found 
the reptile, which was still in a good state of 
preservation and which I showed to various 
people living near Jones’s Mill, a short dis- 
tance to the east of Chatsworth, eliciting the 
information that the corn snake occurred in 
the vicinity, but was far rarer than the pine 
snake. 
‘My specimen has the dorsal rows of scales 
weakly keeled, as described by Cope, and the 
color pattern also fits the description admir- 
ably. It has also been compared with living 
specimens in the New York Zoological Park. 
It is thirty-four inches in length. 
In the “ Amphibians and Reptiles of New 
Jersey,” by Henry W. Fowler, published in 
the Annual Report of the New Jersey State 
Museum for 1906, I do not find the corn 
snake, Coluber guttatus Linn., recorded, nor 
