May 24, 1912] 
seminating of practical instruction regarding 
improved methods, and their demonstration 
upon the estate, which will be conducted as a 
model farm, and also on demonstration fields 
in adjoining sections. It is estimated that 
about $48,000 for buildings and equipment, 
and $21,000 annually for maintenance, will be 
required. 
THE William Rainey Harper Memorial Li- 
brary at the University of Chicago is to be 
dedicated on June 10 and 11, 1912. A special 
effort will be made to have the alumni attend 
the dedicatory exercises, which will be held in 
Harper Court, bounded on the south by the 
Library, on the west by Haskell Oriental 
Museum, and on the east by the Law Building. 
For the next few years the first floor of the 
new building will be used for class-rooms and 
will also contain the Harper Assembly room. 
Eventually, however, the entire floor is to be 
utilized as a stack-room. 
THE trustees of Cornell University have 
voted to approve the recommendation of the 
faculty of the College of Agriculture and the 
university faculty to grant hereafter the de- 
gree of bachelor of science, instead of bachelor 
of science in agriculture, for the completion 
of the course in the College of Agriculture. 
At Princeton University, William F. Magie, 
Henry professor of physics, has been elected 
dean of the faculty to succeed Professor H. B. 
Fine. Professor Fine retains the deanship of 
the department of science. He will spend the 
coming academic year in Europe. 
Dr..M. E. Wapswortu, for the past five 
years dean of the School of Mines of the Uni- 
versity of Pittsburgh, has resigned, his resig- 
nation to take effect on June 30. Mr. S. A. 
Taylor, C.E., an alumnus of the university, 
has been appointed dean. 
Proressor H. P. Baker, of the Pennsyl- 
vania State College, has accepted a position 
at Syracuse University as dean of the State 
College of Forestry, established in 1911 by the 
New York legislature with an initial appropri- 
ation of $55,000. 
SCIENCE 
817 
Proressor RicHarp S. Curtis, of the Uni- 
versity of Illinois, has resigned to become pro- 
fessor of organic chemistry at the Throop 
Polytechnic Institute, Pasadena, California, 
and L. L. Burgess, associate in chemistry, has 
resigned to become assistant professor of an- 
alytical chemistry at the University of Sas- 
katchewan, Canada. 
THomas C. Brown, Ph.D. (Columbia, ’09), 
assistant professor of geology in the Pennsyl- 
vania State College, has been appointed asso- 
ciate in geology at Bryn Mawr College. 
Mr. R. J. S. Picorr has been appointed 
assistant professor of steam engineering in 
Columbia University, a newly established posi- 
tion in the School of Engineering. - 
H. Lee Warp, of Swarthmore College, has 
been appointed instructor in chemistry in 
Wesleyan University. 
Tue following new appointments to in- 
structorships have been made in the depart- 
ment of chemistry of Columbia University: 
Andrew Bender, Columbia University; R. H. 
Lombard, Columbia University; Arthur Ed- 
gar, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; 
Dr. Frederick Barry, Harvard University; R. 
F. MecCrackan, Columbia University; Harry 
L. Fisher, Cornell Medical School; Robert M. 
Isham, Columbia University. 
Proressor FRiepRIcH OzarEr, of the Univer- 
sity of Prague, has been appointed to the chair 
of plant physiology and pathology in the Im- 
perial College of Science and Technology, 
London. 
DISCUSSION AND CORRESPONDENCE 
A PROTEST AGAINST CHANGING THE INTERNA- 
TIONAL CODE OF ZOOLOGICAL NOMENCLATURE 
It is well known to all who have had to deal 
with questions of nomenclature that much of 
the confusion in the application of generic 
names in the past has been due to the lack of 
system in determining the type of a genus. 
It is a matter of small importance just how 
the type is determined so long as every one 
uses the same method and the method is suffi- 
ciently clear and definite to yield uniform re- 
sults in the hands of different investigators. 
