OCTOBEB 21, 1921] 



SCIENCE 



377 



Dr. James E. Ackert, parasitologist at Kan- 

 sas State Agricultural College Experiment Sta- 

 tion, has resumed his work at Manhattan, after 

 spending four months in hookworm investiga- 

 tions in Trinidad as a member of the expedi- 

 tion of the International Health Board of the 

 Eockefeller Foundation. 



Dr. ]Sr. J. Vavilov, professor of farm crops 

 in the Petrograd Agricultural College and 

 director of the bureau of applied botany and 

 plant breeding is now in the United States 

 on leave of absence to study methods fol- 

 lowed in his field of work by American col- 

 leges and universities. 



J. W. Richards, professor of metallurgy at 

 Lehigh University, died suddenly on October 

 12, at the age of fifty-seven years. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL 

 NEWS 



A BEQUEST of $200,000 to Harvard Univer- 

 sity, the income to be devoted to the investiga- 

 tion of the origin and cure of cancer, is con- 

 tained in the will of the late Hiram F. Mills, 

 the hydraulic engineer of Hingham, Mass. 

 After numerous public and private bequests, 

 including $10,000 each to the Massachusetts 

 Institute of Technology and Rensselaer Poly- 

 technic Institute, the residue of the estate is 

 to be used to establish a fund for charitable 

 purposes among mill workers in Lawrence and 

 Lowell. 



The Journal of the American Medical Asso- 

 ciation states that the foundations have been 

 laid for the new University of Jerusalem, to 

 which the Jewish physicians in the United 

 States are giving $1,000,000 to build the med- 

 ical college, of which the inside will be fur- 

 nished in accord with American standards, with 

 white tiled operating rooms, while the exterior 

 will conform to the general plan of the univer- 

 sity. Dr. Albert Einstein will be dean of the 

 university, and an American surgeon, assisted 

 by an American staff, will be at the head of the 

 medical department. Patrick Geddes, professor 

 of botany of the University of Edinburgh, has 

 drawn up the plans for the building, which will 

 be open to students from all countries. 



Dr. Laurence J. Early has been appointed 

 associate professor in bacteriology, and Dr. 

 Percy Lawrence DelSToyelles assistant professor 

 in pathology at the Albany Medical College. 



Dr. Lester S. Hill, of the University of 

 Montana, has been appointed associate profes- 

 sor of mathematics in the University of Maine. 



Gr. Ross Robertson has completed his gradu- 

 ate study at the University of Chicago and 

 has been appointed instructor in the Southern 

 Branch of the University of California, at Los 

 Angeles. Wliile in Chicago Mr. Robertson also 

 assisted Dr. Stieglitz in his Public Health 

 Service work, as junior chemist. 



Mr. C. a. Gunns, formerly zoological tech- 

 nician with the late Professor Sedgwick, of 

 Cambridge University and the Imperial Col- 

 lege of Science, London, and for the past five 

 years in the same position with Professor Mc- 

 Bride of the latter institution, has become zoo- 

 logical technician in the Department of Zool- 

 ogy, Kansas State Agricultural College. 



Dr. David Hepburn, professor of anatomy 

 and dean of the medical faculty. University 

 College, Cardiff, has been appointed dean of the 

 faculty of medicine in the University of Wales. 



Professor 0. Nageli has succeeded Profes- 

 sor Eichhorst in the chair of clinical medicine 

 at Ziirich. 



DISCUSSION AND CORRESPONDENCE 



AN IDEAL HOST 



To THE Editor of Science: The following 

 observation on the symbiotic relation between 

 a large hammerhead shark and a shark 

 sucker (Eamora) seems worthy of record. 

 On July 5, 1911, a hammerhead shark ten feet 

 two inches long and two feet seven inches 

 across the head was taken in the Bureau of 

 Fisheries trap in Buzzards Bay at "Woods 

 Hole, Mass. The shark was towed by the tail 

 to the stone shark pool at the Fisheries 

 wharf. After this strenuous trip from the trap 

 my curiosity was aroused at seeing a small 

 ramora about sixteen inches long clinging to 

 the side of the shark. So far as I could dis- 

 cover no one had seen the ramora either in 



