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funds. The social insurance authorities have 

 had to close the children's sanatorium at 

 Lichtenberg and dismiss the personnel, and 

 the fuU utilization of the great sanatorium at 

 Beelitz is threatened. 



The Henry Phipps Institute of the Uni- 

 versity of Pennsylvania has received a grant 

 of $25,000 a year from the Carnegie Corpor- 

 ation, and $25,000 for two years from the uni- 

 versity trustees. The conditions which must 

 be met that advantage may be taken of the 

 Carnegie grant are, first, the grant itself be 

 expended for research, and second, there shall 

 be previously expended for research not less 

 than $50,000 a year, derived from other 

 sources, in any year in which this grant is 

 claimed. 



A CORRESPONDENT writes: "Dr. E. H. Sel- 

 lards, geologist in the bureau of economic 

 geology of the University of Texas, has been 

 given leave from the University in order to 

 undertake geologic investigations for the 

 State of Texas in the Attorney General's 

 Department relating to the Texas-Oklahoma 

 boundary line on the Red River. The United 

 States Supreme Court has held that the 

 treaty of 1819 between the United States and 

 Spain made the south bank of Red River 

 the boundary between the two countries, and 

 that by subsequent treaties and congressional 

 acts this line as defined by the treaty with 

 Spain has become the boundary line between 

 Texas and Oklahoma on the Red River. 

 However, there remain undetermined the 

 questions : What constitutes the south bank 

 of this river ; where was the south bank 

 approximately one hundred years ago when 

 the treaty with Spain was made ; and by what 

 process has the river departed from its 

 position of one hundred years ago, that is 

 has the river moved gradually as by accretion 

 to its banks, or suddenly as by ovulsion. 

 The actual location of the boundary line 

 between the two states for a distance of three 

 hundred miles or more is contingent upon the 

 Supreme Court's decision on these points to be 

 made in accordance with the evidence that 

 may be presented." 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL 

 NEWS 



Vassar College receives $150,000, and Bar- 

 nard College, Yale University, the University 

 of Rochester and Colgate College, $10,000 each, 

 by the will of the late Dr. Henry M. Sanders, 

 formerly pastor of the Madison Avenue Bap- 

 tist Church, of New York City. 



Dr. p. p. Claxton, recently United States 

 commissioner of education, has accepted the 

 provostship of the University of Alabama. 



Secretary Weeks, of the Department of 

 War, has asked the University of Pennsylvania 

 to release Major General Leonard Wood from 

 his promise to become provost of the univer- 

 sity in order that he may be free to accept the 

 governor generalship of the Philippines. 



As an ad interim measure. Dean Stanley 

 Coulter has been appointed chairman of the 

 faculty of Purdue University by the board of 

 trustees and will administer all academic in- 

 terests, while financial matters will be han- 

 dled by a member of the board. 



Dr. Charles D. Snyder has been appointed 

 professor of experimental physiology in the 

 Johns Hopkins University. 



Dr. John C. Donaldson has accepted ap- 

 pointment as assistant professor of anatomy 

 in the school of medicine of the University 

 of Pittsburgh. 



DISCUSSION AND CORRESPONDENCE 



ANOTHER high-temperature RECORD FOR 

 GROWTH AND ENDURANCE 



A temperature record for growth and en- 

 durance of developing joints above that of any 

 previously given was published by the senior 

 author in Science for April 15, 1921. Young 

 joints of Opuntia were found to continue 

 elongation at 55° C. (131° F.) and to endure 

 this temperature so that development was 

 continued normally at lower and accustomed 

 temperatures in March at the Desert Labora- 

 tory. 



Measurements on other individuals with the 

 advance of the season confirmed the earlier 



