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secretary of the interior, presided at the 

 conference, which was held at the suggestion 

 of the secretary of the interior and was com- 

 posed of Tepresentatives ifrom the various 

 executive departments. After a general dis- 

 cussion of the suhject under debate, two com- 

 mittees were appointed to go into the matter 

 further and to report to a similar conference 

 to be held at some future date. A committee 

 of five is to consider in detail ways and means 

 for the coordination and procedure work 

 above suggested, and a committee of three is 

 to develop a plan to provide a general clear- 

 ing house for the dissemination of information 

 among the several executive departments with 

 respect to licenses, shop rights, and titles, 

 which the Government has acquired, or may 

 acquire with respect to patients. 



Announcement is made that it is the policy 

 of the War Department to encourage the 

 development of military inventions by officers, 

 enlisted men and civil employees. In con- 

 sideration of assistance to be given by the 

 department in the issue of patents, it will 

 require of inventors a license to manufacture 

 and use their inventions for governmental pur- 

 ix)ses, thereby reserving to the patentee com- 

 plete freedom and ownership of the patent 

 in its commercial applications. In special 

 cases of inventions of great military im- 

 portance, however, provision is made for ex- 

 clusive government ownership and the ut- 

 most secrecy. 



The N"ew England Intercollegiate Geologi- 

 cal Excursion will be held on October 14 and 

 15 in the vicinity of Attleboro, Massachusetts, 

 under the leadership of Professor Jay B. 

 Woodworth of Harvard University. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL 

 NOTES 



At a recent meeting of the board of regents 

 of the University of Oregon, it was decided to 

 place contracts immediately for the construc- 

 tion of the new medical school building in 

 Portland. It was also decided to name the 

 medical school building after the late Dr. 

 Eobert C. Yenny. 



St. Louis University is erecting a new 

 building, 50 x 200 ft, three stories high, as an 

 extension to the medical school. Accommoda- 

 tions will be afforded for the library, reading 

 room, administration offices and the labora- 

 tories for physiology, pharmacology and his- 

 tology. In addition to this the old building is 

 being remodeled so as to give more adequate 

 accommodations to the other departments. 



By the will of Seymour T. Coman, of Chi- 

 cago, the residue of his estate is bequeathed to 

 the University of Chicago for scientific re- 

 search with special reference to the cause, pre- 

 vention, and cure of disease. The fund is to 

 be known as the Seymour Coman Eesearch 

 Fund. 



At the Harvard Medical School Dr. Alex- 

 ander Forbes has been promoted to be asso- 

 ciate professor of physiology, and Dr. George 

 Cheever Shattuck to be assistant professor 

 of tropical medicine for a one-year term. 



Major Hugo Diemer, formerly professor of 

 industrial engineering at Pennsylvania State 

 College and later personnel superintendent at 

 the Winchester Kepeating Arms Co., New 

 Haven, has been appointed director of the in- 

 dustrial management division of LaSalle Ex- 

 tension University, Chicago, 111. The division 

 includes the resident and correspondence in- 

 struction in industrial management efficiency, 

 modern foremanship and production meth- 

 ods and personnel administration, as well as 

 the consulting service in each of these de- 

 partments. 



Dr. Arthur J. Tieje, who received his doc- 

 torate from the University of Minnesota 

 in 1920, has been appointed assistant profes- 

 sor of geology at the University of Colorado, 

 and assistant geologist on the Colorado Ge- 

 ological Survey. 



Professor Maurice DeWulf, formerly of 

 the University of Louvain and sometime 

 teacher in Harvard and Lowell lecturer, has 

 accepted a permanent appointment as profes- 

 sor of philosophy at Harvard. 



