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upon subjects of current scientific interest. 
It should have been stated in the last issue of 
Science that the gift of $300,000 to Princeton 
University from Mr. W. C. Procter for the 
establishment of: fellowships was part of his 
gift of $500,000, the balance having been used 
for the construction of a memorial dining 
hall in the Graduate College. 
Mrs. H. M. Bernard, of London, has ar- 
ranged with Professor Kellogg who is at pres- 
ent in London, to establish a small scholar- 
ship in the department of entomology at 
Stanford, to aid an advanced student for two 
years in an investigation of some problem in 
insect evolution. The scholarship will yield 
one hundred dollars a year besides an addi- 
tional sum to pay all laboratory fees. Mrs. 
Bernard is the widow of the English biologist 
Henry M. Bernard, a student of Ernst 
Haeckel, at Jena, an authority on the corals 
and an independent investigator of evolution 
problems. © Mrs. Bernard has recently edited 
and published many of her husband’s notes 
in a book called “ Some Neglected Factors in 
Evolution ” (Putnam’s). She has already es- 
tablished an evolution scholarship in the Uni- 
versity of London, and expects to found 
others in three or four American universities. 
Tue library of the department of botany, 
Brown University, has received a gift of 150 
volumes of rare botanical books, valued at 
$2,000, in memory of the late Edward P. 
Taft, class of 754. 
Governor Dix has signed the Harte bill 
providing for the establishment of a New 
York State School of Agriculture on Long 
Island and appropriating $50,000 for that 
purpose. He says in a memorandum that 
plans should be formed and put into effect 
for the training of qualified agricultural 
teachers in one or more of the state normal 
schools and that an effort should also be made 
toward the introduction in the public high 
schools of at least the elementary study of 
agriculture. 
Proressor Henry B. Fine has resigned the 
‘ddleanship of the faculty of Princeton Univer- 
‘sity but continues as dean of the departments 
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of science and as Dod professor of mathe- 
matics. He has been granted a leave of ab- 
sence for the next academic year which he 
will spend in Europe. Dr. William F. Magie, 
Henry professor of physics, has been elected 
dean of the faculty to succeed Professor Fine. 
Dr. AtrreD M. Tozzer has been appointed 
assistant professor of anthropology at Har- 
vard University. 
Dr. Gitpert N. Lewis, research professor 
of chemistry in the Massachusetts Institute 
of Technology, has been appointed professor 
of physical chemistry in the University of 
California, succeeding the late Willard B. 
Rising. Dr. H. W. Morse, now of Harvard 
University, becomes lecturer in chemistry. 
In the same institution Dr. S. J. Holmes, of 
the University of Wisconsin, has been ap- 
pointed associate professor of zoology. The 
last appointment is made to fill the vacancy 
caused by the removal of Professor H. B. 
Torrey to Reed College. 
DISCUSSION AND CORRESPONDENCE 
PHENOTYPES, GENOTYPES AND GENS 
Wuite there should be no objection to 
weekly revisions of the vocabulary of genetics, 
if any useful purpose is served, some readers 
of ScieENCE may share in the belief that spe- 
cial terms can have little practical value un- 
less they continue to bear the same or closely 
related meanings. The word phenotype, for 
example, seems to have been employed by 
Professor Johannsen as a statistical term, for 
a purpose essentially different from that illus- 
trated in Dr. Shull’s recent paper, in SCIENCE 
of February 2, 1912, p. 182. Dr. Shull as- 
sures us of Professor Johannsen’s authority 
for the new version of phenotype, but this does 
not destroy the historical interest of previous 
revelations. 
To show the distinction that phenotype once 
conveyed, a free translation of Johannsen’s 
most direct statement may be given: 
Thus we recognize that the ‘‘type’’ in the Que- 
teletian sense is merely a superficial appearance 
which may be deceptive; only through further in- 
vestigation can it be determined whether one or 
many biologically different types are present. 
