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SCIENCE 



[N. S. Vol. LIV. No. 1383 



Dr. Juan Guiteras, formerly director of 

 public health of Cuba, has been appointed sec- 

 retary of public health and charities. 



Dr. Edward B. Kjiumbhaar, assistant pro- 

 fessor of research medicine in the University 

 of Pennsylvania, has resigned to become di- 

 rector of the pathological laboratory of the 

 Philadelphia Hospital. 



Dr. J. F. DiLLiNGWORTH, who, for the past 

 four years, has been under engagement with the 

 Queensland government, investigating pests 

 of sugar cane, is returning with his family to 

 their home in Hawaii. For the present his 

 address will be University of Hawaii, Hono- 

 lulu, T. H. 



The commencement address at Clark Uni- 

 versity was given on June 13 by Dr. Jolm M. 

 Clarke. The occasion was the first commence- 

 ment under the presidency of Dr. Wallace W. 

 Atwood. 



At a public meeting of the British ^National 

 Union of Scientific Workers on May 25, Pro- 

 fessor L. Bairstow gave an address on " The 

 administration of scientific work." 



At the meeting of the Physical Society of 

 London on June 10, Sir Ernest Rutherford 

 delivered a lecture entitled " The stability of 

 atoms." 



Sir l^APiER Shaw gave the Eede lecture of 

 the University of Cambridge on June 9 on 

 the subject of " The air and its ways." 



Colonel John Hershel, F.E.S., formerly 

 of the Indian Trigonometrical Survey, died on 

 May 31 at the age of eighty-three years. 



The death is recorded in Nature of Miss 

 Czaplicka, who went from Poland to Oxford 

 in 1910 with a scholarship in Summerville Col- 

 lege. She has since conducted explorations 

 in Siberia and has been lecturer on ethnology 

 at Oxford and Bristol. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL 

 NEWS 



Gifts and bequests to Yale University in 

 the past year aggregating $1,859,154 were an- 



nounced at the alumni luncheon by President 

 Hadley. Of this amount, $545,729 was from 

 the alumni fund, the report of which showed 

 more than eight thousand contributors during 

 the year. 



The California Legislature has appropriated 

 $500,000 for building and equipping a new 

 physics building for the University of Cali- 

 fornia. Work has begun on the plans, and it 

 is hoped that the building will be ready for oc- 

 cupancy by December, 1922. Liberal provision 

 will be made for research, both in space and 

 equipment, and ample laboratory accommoda- 

 tions will be provided for the undergraduate 

 students, who have more than doubled in num- 

 ber during the past two years. 



Mr. Samuel Mather has given to Western 

 Reserve University $500,000 to be used in the 

 construction of a building for the medical 

 college. 



Mrs. Eansohoff, widow of Dr. Joseph 

 RansohoS, former professor of surgery at the 

 Medical College of the University of Cin- 

 cinnati, has given $25,000 to this institution 

 {not Cornell) toward the endowment fund 

 for the establishment of " The Joseph Ranso- 

 hoff Professorship of Surgical Anatomy," or 

 if such is not feasible " to endow the Joseph 

 Ransohoff Fellowship of Surgery." Effort is 

 under way at the present time to secure the 

 added $125,000 for the total endowment above 

 mentioned. 



The resignation of Dr. Russell H. Chitten- 

 den, director of the Sheifield Scientific School 

 of Yale University, to take effect at the end of 

 the college year has not been accepted by the 

 trustees, and has been postponed to July, 1922. 



Professor Dan T. Gray, of the North Caro- 

 lina Experiment Station and Extension Ser- 

 vice, has been elected dean of the Agricultural 

 College and director of the Experiment Sta- 

 tion of the Alabama Polytechnic Institute. 



Recent appointments in Colorado College 

 include A. W. Bray, as assistant professor of 

 biology, and James H. C. Smith, as assistant 

 professor of chemistry. 



