NoveMBER 15, 1918] 
a group of friends, who started a movement to 
establish a hospital for advanced study and in- 
vestigation. 
At a recent meeting of the British Textile 
Institute, at Bradford, it was announced that 
the aim of the promoters was to obtain a finan- 
eial backing of £50,000. Donations amount- 
ing to close on £7,000 were acknowledged. 
The aims of the institute are to extend the 
scope of the institute are “to extend the scope 
of the technology of the textile trades, to 
establish and maintain lectureships, to en- 
courage invention and discovery, to promote 
the standardization of tests, and to provide 
the essential liaison between the business and 
the scientific mind.” 
THE total number of students of medicine 
enrolled in the five universities of Switzerland 
in the summer semester of 1918 was 1,725. 
They were distributed as follows: Bale, 220 
(174 Swiss, of whom 15 were women, and 46 
foreign, of whom 4 were women); Berne, 385 
(242 Swiss, of whom 29 were women, and 143 
foreign, of whom 16 were women); Geneva, 
381 (163 Swiss, of whom 16 were women, and 
218 foreign, of whom 58 were women); 
Lausanne, 225 (159 Swiss, of whom 13 were 
women, and 66 foreign, of whom 16 were 
women); Zurich, 504 (350 Swiss, of whom 
56 were women, and 154 foreign, of whom 16 
were women). 
Proressor JAMES THERON Roop has re- 
signed as professor of electrical engineering of 
Lafayette College, to take up the professor- 
ship of railway electrical engineering in the 
department of transportation at the Univer- 
sity of Ilinois. 
Mr. M. Cannon Sneep, formerly assistant 
professor of chemistry at the University of 
Cincinnati, has been appointed associate pro- 
fessor and head of the division of general and 
inorganie chemistry at the University of Min- 
nesota. 
Dr. Sumo Tasnio has been made an as- 
sistant professor in the department of physio- 
logical chemistry of the University of Chicago. 
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Dr. F. D. Murnacuan, of the Rice Institute, 
has been appointed associate in applied mathe- 
matics at Johns Hopkins University. 
I. Newton Kuceimass, formerly with the 
departments of chemistry at the College of the 
City of New York and Columbia University, 
has been appointed professor and head of the 
department of chemistry in Howard College 
in Birmingham, Alabama. 
On account of the death of Associate Pro- 
fessor William G. Mallory, Dr. S. R. Williams, 
head of the department of physics, who was 
spending his sabbatical year in research under 
the auspices of the Federal War Department 
has returned to Oberlin College and has re- 
sumed teaching. 
DISCUSSION AND CORRESPONDENCE 
INSIDIOUS SCIENTIFIC CONTROL 
AN interesting letter by G. A. Miller in 
Scrence, August 2, 1918, page 117, calls atten- 
tion to the necessity for the vigorous develop- 
ment of science at this time, and to the 
danger that we may win the war in the mili- 
tary sense, only to find ourselves dominated 
by German knowledge and German science, be- 
cause of the faet that the Germans have con- 
tinued their scientific work during the war, 
whereas in the United States, England, France 
and Italy, the activities of scientific men have 
been turned toward war problems, as was nec- 
essary from the great lack of preparation for 
war in these countries, and as was not neces- 
sary in Germany, owing precisely to the great 
preparations which had been made. 
Much has been said and still more assumed 
during the past two decades in regard to the 
German proficiency over and above that of 
other peoples in all realms of science; and it 
has been the feeling of many teachers and of 
many students that the German language was 
more essential for scientific uses than any 
other, and that the German training was the 
one to which our graduates who were not satis- 
fied with what they found in this country 
should turn. This American feeling was un- 
doubtedly expressly fostered by the German 
government, and probably will again be fos- 
