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killed in France last year, and a donation of 
£51 from Miss Gertrude Jones for the pur- 
poses of the Galton Laboratory at University 
College. 
Preswent J. G. ScHurMan, of Cornell Uni- 
versity, has received leave of absence from the 
university until next October and will devote 
the summer to patriotic workin France. Dur- 
ing his absence, Professor Dexter S. Kimball, 
acting dean of Sibley College, is, by appoint- 
ment of the board of trustees, acting presi- 
dent of the university. 
Ar the University of Minnesota Professor 
H. H. Kildee has resigned as professor and 
chief of the dairy husbandry division in order 
to become head of the department of animal 
industry at the State College of Iowa at 
Ames; G. E. Weaver and H. R. Searles have 
resigned as assistant professor and intructor, 
respectively, of dairy husbandry to enter gov- 
ernment service with the marines; Miss 
Josephine T. Berry has resigned as professor 
of nutrition and chief of the Division of 
Home Economies in order to continue her 
work as assistant director for home economics 
of the Federal Board for Vocational Educa- 
tion; Miss Mildred Weigley who has been 
associate professor and acting chief during 
Miss Berry’s leave of absence has been pro- 
moted to the position made vacant by Miss 
Berry’s resignation. JI. D. Charlton has re- 
signed as professor and chief of the Division 
of Farm Engineering in order to enter war 
service; J. S. Montgomery has resigned his 
position as associate professor of animal hus- 
bandry in charge of the section of horse hus- 
bandry in order to accept a position with a 
large stock breeder. 
Mr. A. M. Cuickerrine, instructor in biology 
in Beloit College for several years, has been 
elected to the professorship of biology in Al- 
bion College and will assume his new duties 
with the opening of college in September. 
Miss Atice M. Borrne has resigned as asso- 
ciate professor of zoology at the University of 
Maine and received an appointment in the 
premedical department of the Peking Union 
Medical College, China. 5 
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Dr. SetH Lake Stronc, who was graduated 
from the Harvard Medical School in the class 
of 1913, has been appointed lecturer in surgery 
to the Royal Medical College at Bangkok, 
Siam, and will also act as surgeon to the 
Siravaj Hospital there. 
Captain M. J. Stewart has been elected pro- 
fessor of pathology and bacteriology in the 
University of Leeds. He received his commis- 
sion in 1915 and has served as pathologist to 
the East Leeds War Hospital, and in a similar 
capacity in France. A few months ago he was 
recalled to Leeds and undertook the acting 
headship of the department of pathology and 
bacteriology. 
Tue following appointments are announced 
in the geological sciences in Germany and 
Austria: Professor W. Branca has retired from 
his professorship in Berlin, and has been suc- 
ceeded by Professor J. Pompecki, of Tubingen. 
Professor EH. Kayser has similarly retired in 
Marburg, and his successor is Professor R. ~ 
Wedekind. Professor L. Milch, of Greifswald, 
has followed the late Professor Hintze as. pro- 
fessor of mineralogy in Breslau, and Professor 
E. Hennig, of Berlin, has become professor of 
geology at Tiibingen. Professor O..Abel has 
been made professor of paleobiology in Vienna. 
DISCUSSION AND CORRESPONDENCE 
FORMATIVE SETTING OF LACCOLITHIC 
MOUNTAINS 
AurHouGH the simple “ Blister” hypothesis 
of laccolithic intrusion, which was for the 
first time proposed for the Henry Mountains 
in southern Utah, finds so few supporters, of 
late little is done towards arriving at a better 
solution. Perusal of the descriptions of the 
Henry Mountains soon discloses the fact that 
not all of their story is yet told. ‘There is 
nowhere any suggestion of relationships pos- 
sibly existing between the local tectonics and 
the intrusive structures. Without these the 
phenomenon seems, as has been so often urged, 
a mechanical impossibility. This is the view 
which most Europeans take. In consequence 
they frequently confound laccolithie structure 
with that presented by denuded volcanic 
necks. 
