September 23, 1921] 



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The Connecticut legislature has increased 

 the biennial appropriation for the State Ex- 

 periment Station from $45,000 to $82,000. 

 It has also appropriated $10,000 for investi- 

 gations on matters connected with the pro- 

 duction of tobacco. The station has secured 

 a field of about 13 acres where experimental 

 work may be carried on along this line. 



According to the Journal of the American 

 Medical Association a new hospital group, 

 designed to be one of the largest and most up 

 to date in the country and incorporating the 

 University Hospital, the nurses' home and the 

 schools of medicine, dentistry and pharmacy 

 in a single system, is to be erected by the 

 University of Maryland at Lombard and 

 Green streets, Baltimore. The main building 

 will be eleven stories in height with a roof 

 garden above. Plans call for a hospital of 

 300 beds, and ultimate expansion to 500 is 

 contemplated. The nurses' home is planned 

 to furnish accommodations for 200, with facili- 

 ties for 300 students in the combined schools. 

 The cost is estimated at about $1,250,000. 

 When the project is fully developed, a unique 

 feature will be an arrangement by which the 

 most modern adjuncts of medical science will 

 be placed at the disposal of rural practitioners 

 through graduate and extension courses. It 

 is planned to have traveling instructors, who 

 will hold courses in rural communities and 

 also to give the rural practitioner the opportu- 

 nity to bring all special eases to the hospital. 

 The institution will offer the medical practi- 

 tioner the service which the agricultural col- 

 lege of the university now provides for the 

 farmer. One of the principal objects of the 

 enlarged institution will be to relieve the 

 city's inadequate hospital facilities. Con- 

 struction of the first portion of the group will 

 be begun within the month and will cost ap- 

 proximately $250,000 when completed; erec- 

 tion of the second unit of the home is ex- 

 pected in about a year. The whole project 

 will require several years for its development. 

 The University Hospital was opened in 1833 

 under the name of the Baltimore Infirmary, 

 and has been enlarged fotirfold by successive 

 additions. 



The San Diego museum has been presented 

 with a library of ancient and modern manu- 

 scripts and books treating Chinese art, by Dr. 

 "William P. Gates, one of the founders of the 

 institution. 



Nature states that in consequence of the re- 

 tirement of Sir Hercules Bead, the depart- 

 ment of the British Museum hitherto known 

 as the Department of British and Medieval 

 Antiquities and Ethnography has been div- 

 ided, and the following appointments have 

 been made by the principal trustees: Mr. O. 

 M. Dalton to be keeper of the Department of 

 British and Medieval Antiquities; Mr. E. I. 

 Hobson to be keeper of the Department of 

 Ceramics and Ethnography; Mr. T. A. Joyce 

 to be deputy-keeper in the Department of Cer- 

 amics and Ethnography. Mr. Reginald 

 Smith, hitherto deputy-keeper in the undi- 

 vided department, becomes deputy-keeper in 

 the Department of British and Medieval Anti- 

 quities. The prehistoric collections fall into 

 the Department of British and Medieval 

 Antiquities, and the Oriental collections into 

 that of Ceramics and Ethnography. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL 

 NEWS 



Trinity College will receive a contribution 

 of $125,000 to its centennial fund from the 

 General Education Board. 



The Experiment Station Record reports 

 that a fund to be known as the A. D. Watson 

 prize fund is being collected by subscription at 

 the University of Minnesota in honor of the 

 retiring director of extension work. The in- 

 come of this fund is to be used annually in 

 either the college or school of agriculture or 

 both as prizes to students excelling in studies 

 having to do with cooperation and cooperative 

 enterprises. 



At the recent meeting of the State Board of 

 Agriculture, the resignation of Dr. F. S. 

 Kedzie as president of the Michigan Agricul- 

 tural College, effective on August 31, was 

 accepted, and he was appointed dean of the 

 Division of Applied Sciences. Professor 

 David Friday of the department of economics 

 of the University of Michigan was appointed 



