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to Manchester to carry on the investigation in 

 collaboration with other workers, who will at- 

 tack the problems arising from the pathological 

 and physiological standpoints. It is intended 

 that the first visit should be made to Er- 

 langen, but if time permits the scholar will 

 afterwards visit Freiburg, Berlin and Mann- 

 heim, and certain centers in France, Holland 

 and Sweden. 



A REPORT of the British Interdepartmental 

 Committee, which was asked to prepare a 

 scheme for giving effect to the resolutions of 

 the British Empire Forestry Conference with 

 regard to a central institution for training 

 forest officers, has been issued. The commit- 

 tee recommends that such an institution 

 should be placed at Oxford and incorporated 

 with the university. It should be governed 

 by a board appointed one half by the de- 

 partments or governments concerned, and the 

 other half by the university. The board should 

 have general charge of the higher course of 

 training, of finance, and of administration. 

 The director of the institution, who should be 

 the professor of forestry, and the staff should 

 be appointed by the university with the ap- 

 proval of the board. Pending the erection of 

 buildings, arrangements can be made with the 

 university for temporary accommodation. The 

 committee says that the annual cost of the 

 permanent staff should not at the beginning 

 exceed £4,000 per annum. There will be a 

 further liability on every department con- 

 cerned for the university fees and subsistence, 

 estimated at £300 a year for each probationer. 

 Students should be selected by the depart- 

 ments for admission to the central institution 

 from those who have taken a forestry degree 

 at any university whose standard of education 

 is approved by the board. 



At the last annual meeting of the Ameri- 

 can Physiological Society a fellowship for re- 

 search in physiology was established by the 

 generosity of Dr. Wm. T. Porter, of the Har- 

 vard Medical School. By resolution of the 

 society, the council has been instructed to 

 receive nominations and appoint the fellow 

 for the year 1921-22 with a stipend of $1,200. 



The fellowship may be pursued at the univer- 

 sity or institution where the particular prob- 

 lem being developed by the candidate can best 

 be forwarded. The proposed program of in- 

 vestigation is limited only by the general pur- 

 pose, namely, the pursuit of physiological re- 

 search. But the program submitted by the 

 candidate must meet the approval of the coun- 

 cil of the society. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL 

 NEWS 



By the will of the late Frances Appleton 

 Foster, of Weston, Mass., the Massachusetts 

 Institute of Technology receives $1,000,000 

 and Wellesley College $500,000. 



It is reported from the University of Mani- 

 toba that requirements for securing the gift 

 of $500,000 from the Rockefeller Foundation 

 will be fully met and that another new build- 

 ing will be erected on the college grounds. 



Professor R. R. Fenska has resigned as as- 

 sistant professor in forestry at the University 

 of Montana to become professor of forest en- 

 gineering at the ISTew York State College of 

 Forestry, Syracuse University. 



Mr. Dwiqht Isely, scientific assistant in the 

 United States Bureau of Entomology, has 

 resigned and has accepted the position of 

 associate professor in the Department of En- 

 tomology, University of Arkansas, and asso- 

 ciate entomologist in the Experiment Station. 



John E. Du Priest, professor of steam and 

 gas engineering and design in the Rensselaer 

 Polytechnic Institute, and consulting engi- 

 neer for the Endieott Machine Corporation, 

 Baltimore, has been appointed assistant profes- 

 sor of mechanical engineering at the Oregon 

 Agricultural College. 



Herbert C. Hanson, of the University of 

 Colorado, has been appointed assistant profes- 

 sor of biology in the University of Arizona. 



The Linacre chair of zoology and compara- 

 tive anatomy, at Oxford, vacant by the retire- 

 ment of Professor G. C. Bourne, has been filled 

 by the appointment of Professor E. S. Good- 

 rich, fellow of Merton College and professor 

 of comparative embryology in the university. 



