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ment analyst. Department of Science and Ag- 

 riculture, British Guiana; and Brig.-Gen. D. 

 J. McGavin, director-general of Medical Ser- 

 vices in New Zealand. G.B. : Mr. LI. S. Lloyd, 

 assistant secretary to the Department of Sci- 

 entific and Industrial Research. K.C.I.E.: 

 Col. W. H. Willcox, late medical adviser to 

 the Civil Administration in Mesopotamia. 

 C.I.E.: Dr. M. IT. Banerjee, principal of Car- 

 michael Medical College, Belgatchia, Bengal. 

 Companion Imperial Service Order: Mr. G. 

 J. Williams, senior inspector of mines. Mines 

 Department. 



Peofessor G. F. Ferris, of Leland Stanford 

 University, California, is spending the sum- 

 mer collecting and studying scale insects in 

 Texas, in cooperation with the Division of 

 Entomology of the Texas Agricultural Experi- 

 ment Station. 



The British government will devote the 

 sum of 1,000,OOOZ. to fostering cotton-growing 

 in the Empire. The money will be placed at 

 the disjoosal of the British Empire Cotton 

 Growing Corporation, and will be in place of 

 the government's former promise of 50,0O0Z. a 

 year for five years to the corporation. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL 

 NEWS 



Dr. Livingston Eaerand, chairman of the 

 executive committee of the Red Cross, for- 

 merly adjunct professor of psychology and 

 professor of anthropology at Columbia Uni- 

 versity and president of the University of 

 Colorado, has been elected president of Cor- 

 nell University. 



Dr. Frank Pierrepont Graves, dean of the 

 school of education of the University of Penn- 

 sylvania, has been appointed commissioner of 

 education of the state of New York and presi- 

 dent of the University of the State of New 

 York. 



Dr. P. J. Hanzlik, of the medical school of 

 Western Reserve University, has been ap- 

 pointed professor of pharmacology in the 

 Stanford University Medical School to succeed 

 Professor A. C. Crawford, who died recently. 



Dr. W. H. Rodebush, who has been for the 



past year a research fellow of the National Re- 

 search Council at the University of California, 

 has been appointed associate professor of phys- 

 ical chemistry at the University of Illinois. 



George M. Wheeler, Ph.D. (1921), Bussey 

 Institution, has been appointed instructor in 

 entomology, and William E. Greenleaf, in- 

 structor in zoology, in the zoology department 

 of Syracuse University. 



Dr. R. R. Gates has been appointed to the 

 university chair of botany tenable at King's 

 College, University of London, in succession 

 to Professor W. B. Bottomley. He was ap- 

 pointed university reader in botany at that 

 college in 1919, and has since that date been 

 in charge of the department in the absence 

 of Professor Bottomley. 



DISCUSSION AND CORRESPONDENCE 



THE CANNONBALL LANCE FORMATION 



To THE Editor of Science: In reviewing 

 Stanton's memoir on the Cannonball Lance 

 formation. Dr. Schuchert has advocated draw- 

 ing the line between Cretaceous and Tertiary 

 at the base of the Wasatch. He has referred 

 to the vertebrate evidence as supporting this 

 view, and as recent researches have consider- 

 ably clarified and extended this evidence, a 

 brief summary of its present -status may be of 

 some aid toward harmonizing the existing con- 

 ilict of opinion. 



The position of these border-line formations 

 has been in dispute not merely for a number 

 of years, as Dr. Knowlton remarks, but ever 

 since they were first discovered. A Cretaceous 

 vertebrate fauna was found associated with 

 a Tertiary flora. Vertebrate palseontologista 

 and palseobotanists took opposite sides; the 

 stratigraphic geologists were divided, and the 

 relations with the marine succession, Euro- 

 pean standard, theories of diastrophism, etc., 

 have been invoked by both sides for a de- 

 cision. This discrepancy has been maintained 

 and confirmed by all subsequent work. It 

 should be recognized as the fundamental diffi- 

 culty. It does not help matters to misrepre- 

 sent or ignore any part of the evidence, and if 

 Dr. Cross's references to the vertebrate evi- 

 dence fairly reflect the way in which the U. 



