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SCIENCE 



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Mil. Stanley Baldwin has stated in the 

 House of Commons that the question of the 

 suspension of the issue of the Kew Bulletin 

 had been considered by the Select Committee 

 on Publications and Debates' Reports, and 

 that it was decided to recommend that the 

 Bulletin should be continued, but with due re- 

 gard to economy. Certain classes of informa- 

 tion, though doubtless of scientific interest, 

 can, it is thought, be postponed without detri- 

 ment to the welfare of the state. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL 

 NEWS 



AccoEDiNG to the Experiment Station Becord 

 appropriations made by the state legislature 

 for the South Dakota College and Station in- 

 clude $80,000 for an armory, $100,000 for the 

 completion of Agricultural Hall, $10,000 for a 

 health laboratory, $10,000 for the manufacture 

 of hog cholera serum, $20,000 for a fireproof 

 stock judging pavilion, $3,000 for a poultry de- 

 partment, $10,000 for the purchase of pure 

 bred live stock, and $5,000 for feeding experi- 

 ments with live stock. This is the first appro- 

 priation made by the state for experimental 

 work. 



Professor E. V. McCollum has resigned 

 his position as professor of agricultural chem- 

 istry at the University of "Wisconsin, to take 

 charge of the department of chemistry of the 

 new school of hygiene and public health, which 

 the Rockefeller Foundation has established in 

 connection with the medical school of the 

 Johns Hopkins University. 



Professor Frank C. Becht, assistant pro- 

 fessor of pharmacology in the University of 

 Chicago, has been appointed professor and 

 head of the department of pharmacology in 

 Northwestern University Medical School, suc- 

 ceeding Professor Hugh McGuigan, who has 

 become professor of pharmacology in the Uni- 

 versity of Illinois. 



Dr. a. E. Lambert has been appointed pro- 

 fessor of histology and embryology in the col- 

 lege of medicine of the University of Vermont. 

 Dr. M. W. Hunter, instructor in medicine, has 

 resigned and Dr. Fred E. Clark, assistant pro- 



fessor of pathology, has received a year's leave 

 of absence. 



Professor H. Halperin, of Vanderbilt Uni- 

 versity, has been appointed assistant professor 

 of mathematics at the University of Arkansas. 



Dr. Percy Kendall Holmes, of the Univer- 

 sity of Cincinnati, has been appointed director 

 of physical education in Ohio Wesleyan Uni- 

 versity. 



Mr. G. Gerald Stoney has been appointed 

 professor of mechanical engineering in the 

 Manchester School of Technology. 



M. LuoiEN Poincaee, director of higher edu- 

 cation in France, has been appointed vice-rec- 

 tor of the University of Paris, in succession to 

 M. Liard. 



M. Moureu, member of the French Insti- 

 tute, professor in the school of pharmacy and 

 director of the editorial board of the Bevue 

 Scientifique, has been appointed professor of 

 organic chemistry in the College de France. 



DISCUSSION AND CORRESPONDENCE 



THE COST OF ROAST PIG 



Charles Lamb, in his " Dissertation on 

 Roast Pig " relates that, according to an 

 ancient manuscript, the hut of a Chinese 

 swineherd taking fire, a litter of newly far- 

 rowed pigs perished in the conflagration. 

 Seeking to find if life remained in any of 

 them, the swineherd burned his fingers on the 

 hot body of a pig. To alleviate the pain he 

 naturally put his fingers into his mouth and 

 so discovered the delicious fiavor of roast 

 pig. The taste spread rapidly and shortly 

 all China was ablaze with binning pig pens 

 sacrificed for the sake of producing the new 

 delicacy. 



In the food crisis with which the world is 

 apparently confronted, roast pig may stand 

 for the supply of animal products in general, 

 and our methods for producing them hitherto 

 have not been altogether unlike that for 

 roasting pigs attributed to the Chinese. At 

 this juncture, it seems pertinent to inquire 

 whether our practises in this respect do not 

 need to be modified so as to contribute more 

 effectively to the feeding of the nations. 



