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sistant agriculturist at salaries ranging from 
$1,600 to $1,800 a year, Office of Farm Man- 
agement, Bureau of Plant Industry, Depart- 
ment of Agriculture. 
FoLLowine a meeting of the biological sec- 
tion of the Kansas State Teachers Association 
a committee has been appointed to study the 
teaching of biology in the high schools of the 
state. The members of the committee are: H. 
F. Roberts, chairman, Kansas Agricultural 
College, botany; I. D. Cardiff, Washburn Col- 
lege, botany; W. C. Stevens, Kansas State 
University, botany; C. E. McClung, Kansas 
State University, zoology; J. W. Scott, Kan- 
sas Agricultural College, zoology; O. P. Del- 
linger, Manual Training Normal School, biol- 
ogy; L. ©. Wooster, Kansas State Normal 
School, biology; Wyman Greene, Wichita 
High School, zoology; W. E. Ringle, Cherry- 
vale High School, botany and zoology; E. J. 
Dumond, Garden City High School, principal 
of high school. 
Tue University Commission on Southern 
Race Questions was recently organized at 
Nashville, Tenn. It consists of 11 members, 
each a representative of a southern state uni- 
versity. Professor C. H. Brough, of the Uni- 
versity of Arkansas, was elected president and 
Professor William M. Hunley, of the Univer- 
sity of Virginia, secretary. The next meeting 
will be held on December 19 at the University 
of Georgia, Athens, Ga. The chief object of 
the commission is to study the negro in his re- 
lation to southern life. The commission was 
organized through the efforts of Dr. James H. 
Dillard, president of the Jeans fund and di- 
rector of the Slater fund, of New Orleans. 
Mer. Peter A. B. Wwener, of Philadelphia, 
has set aside a fund of four million dollars 
for an endowment for the Widener Home for 
Crippled Children, which he had previously 
established with three million dollars. The 
present gift is in memory of his son, Mr. 
George D. Widener, who perished on the 
Titanic. Wis grandson Mr. Harry Elkins 
Widener, who also perished on the Titanic, 
has bequeathed his valuable library to Har- 
vard University, and the family will erect a 
wing to the library building to house it. 
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Tue Sleeping Sickness Bureau under the 
British government will hereafter be known as 
the Tropical Diseases Bureau. The new 
bureau will deal with all exotic diseases which 
are prevalent in tropical and subtropical re- 
gions, and will publish at frequent intervals a 
Tropical Diseases Bulletin, which will take the 
place of the present Sleeping Sickness Bulle- 
tin. As the British Medical Journal states, 
the Sleeping Sickness Bureau had its ori- 
gin in the International Conference on 
Sleeping Sickness held in London, under the 
presidency of Lord Fitzmaurice, in June, 
1907, and March, 1908, to concert measures 
for the contro] of that disease, which was 
spreading rapidly in tropical Africa. It was 
then proposed to have a central international 
bureau “to extract and circulate all new liter- 
ature on sleeping sickness.” This project fell 
through, because the delegates were not unani- 
mous as to the seat of the bureau, or even the 
necessity for its separate existence. Arrange- 
ments were therefore made by Lord Elgin, 
then colonial secretary, for the establishment 
of a British Bureau, maintained by imperial 
funds, with a contribution from the Sudan 
government. The bureau, having outgrown 
the accommodation provided by the Royal So- 
ciety, will have its quarters at the Imperial 
Institute. 
UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS 
Lorp IveacH has given £10,000 to the Uni- 
versity of Dublin, as an endowment fund for 
the department of geology and mineralogy. 
Tue University of Cincinnati held its 
thirty-fourth annual commencement exercises 
on June 4. A feature of the ceremonies was 
the official presentation to the university of 
the new engineering building, power plant and 
gymnasium and the Carson athletic field. 
Tue Harper Memorial Library of the Uni- 
versity of Chicago was dedicated on June 11. 
The leading events of the services were a 
historical statement by President Harry Pratt 
Judson; a memorial address by Dean Albion 
W. Small, head of the department of sociology; 
