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search Defense Society, and the president and 

 honorary treasurer of the association. Sir 

 Thomas Barlow and Dr. Hale White, have 

 joined the committee of the society. It is 

 hoped that in the coming years there will 

 hardly be any need for disputes with antivivi- 

 section societies, and that the society's best 

 opportunities for usefulness will be found in 

 wide, non-aggressive educational work. 



We learn from Nature that the pen- 

 sions granted during the past year by 

 the British government include the follow- 

 ing : Mrs. Charlton Bastian, in consideration 

 of the services to science of her late husband. 

 Dr. Charlton Bastian, and of her straitened 

 circmnstances, £100; Mrs. Minchin, in con- 

 sideration of the scientific work of her late 

 husband. Professor E. A. Minchin, and of her 

 straitened circumstances, £75 ; Mrs. Albert 

 Giinther, in consideration of the scientific work 

 of her late husband. Dr. Albert Giinther, and 

 of his distinguished services to the British 

 Museum as keeper of zoology, £70; and Mrs. 

 Roland Trimen, in consideration of the emi- 

 nent services of her late husband to biological 

 science, and of her straitened circumstances, 

 £75. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL 

 NEWS 



The will of Mrs. Robert W. Bingham, wife 

 of Judge Robert Bingham, of Louisville, Ky., 

 a graduate of the University of North Caro- 

 lina, gives to the University of North Caro- 

 lina $75,000 a year for the establishment of 

 professorships and ultimately a capital sum 

 producing this amount. The professorships are 

 to be known as Kenan professorships, in memo- 

 riam of Mrs. Bingham's father, William R. 

 Kenan, and her uncles, Thomas S. Kenan and 

 James Graham Kenan, graduates of the uni- 

 versity. The value of this bequest to the Uni- 

 versity of North Carolina is more than a mil- 

 lion and a half dollars. 



Francis A. Thomson has resigned from the 

 faculty of the State College of Washington to 

 accept the deanship of the school of mines at 

 the University of Idaho, Moscow, Idaho. 



Dr. Wall.\ce BuTTRiCK, member of the ex- 

 ecutive committee of the Rockefeller Founda- 



tion and director of its China Medical Board, 

 is in England on the invitation of a depart- 

 ment of the British government to confer with 

 educators and ofiicials in Great Britain con- 

 cerning public education. 



At the University of Chicago the following 

 promotions from associate professorships to 

 professorships have been made: Basil C. H. 

 Harvey, of the department of anatomy; Ho- 

 ratio Hackett Newman, of the department of 

 zoology; J. Paul Goode, of the department of 

 geography; Walter Sheldon Tower, of the de- 

 partment of geography. From an assistant 

 professorship to an associate professorship : Ar- 

 thur C Lunn, of the department of mathe- 

 matics. 



At the New Hampshire College A. W. Rich- 

 ardson, of the University of Maine, has been 

 appointed assistant professor in charge of the 

 poultry department to succeed R. V. Mitchell, 

 and G. A. Minges, of Iowa State College, has 

 been appointed instructor in chemistry. The 

 chemistry department has lost two members 

 owing to the war: Professor G. A. Perley has 

 been granted leave of absence for the period of 

 the war and is serving as first lieutenant in 

 the division of chemical engineering, U. S. 

 Army, and Arnold J. Grant has gone to the 

 second Plattsburg Camp. 



DISCUSSION AND CORRESPONDENCE 



THE PUBLICATION OF SCIENTIFIC 

 RESEARCH 



To THE Editor of Science: A matter in 

 which there is a considerable divergence be- 

 tween the practise of different laboratories is 

 that of the method of publication of their 

 results. A number of laboratories publish 

 their own bulletins, either as separate papers 

 or as periodical volumes. Others publish in 

 the scientific and technical press, either in one 

 or two journals or in a number of different 

 journals according to the subjects dealt with. 



Naturally, the best method of publication 

 will depend to some extent on the nature of 

 the work published and the character of the 

 laboratory. In the case of a purely technical 

 laboratory publishing a large number of papers 

 dealing with one special, technical subject. 



