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one of the founders and first directors of the 

 Electrocliemical Society and continued a di- 

 rector until 1913, when he became president 



Dr. James A. Gibson, professor of anatomy 

 in the University of Buffalo, and for the last 

 seven years secretary of the medical depart- 

 ment, died on October 4 at the age of fifty 

 years. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL 

 NEWS 



By the will of Isaac M. Seligman, brother of 

 Professor Edwin E. A. Seligman, of the de- 

 partment of economics of Columbia Univer- 

 sity, who died on September 30, leaving an es- 

 tate estimated at more than $15,000,000, the 

 bulk of his estate is bequeathed to his family. 

 He left bequests aggregating $69,000 to Colum- 

 bia University, the Educational Alliance, Mt. 

 Sinai Hospital, Society of Ethical Culture and 

 other institutions. 



Yale University's budget this year shows a 

 net deficit of about $258,866 as a result of war 

 conditions, it is announced, despite savings of 

 about $200,000 mainly through decrease in the 

 faculty salary list where members are absent 

 in government service. The total registration 

 this year was announced as 2,122, as against 

 3,262 last year, with a decrease of 117 univer- 

 sity officers. 



Student enrolment at Princeton Univer- 

 sity is 618 less than a year ago. The total reg- 

 istration is 937. A year ago it was 1,555. It 

 is stated that for the first time since its or- 

 ganization the school of electrical engineering 

 has no students. 



The faculty changes at Stevens Institute of 

 Technology this year include the appointment 

 of former Assistant Professor Louis A. Hazel- 

 tine as acting professor of electrical engineer- 

 ing to fill the vacancy caused by the death of 

 Professor Albert E. Ganz. Leslie H. Backer, 

 M.E., has been appointed assistant professor 

 in chemistry; Gustav G. Freygang, M.E., as- 

 sistant professor in mechanics; Frank C 

 Stockwell, A.B., S.B., assistant professor in 

 electrical engineering, and Lewis A. Belding, 

 M.E., assistant professor in mechanical engi- 

 neering. Extensive changes have been made 



in the addition and rearrangement of lecture 

 and drafting rooms. The large building for- 

 merly occupied by the Stevens Preparatory 

 School has been connected by a covered bridge 

 with the main building, and has been renamed 

 recitation hall. The interior has been rear- 

 ranged to contain 15 lecture rooms and 14 

 offices, thus relieving the main building where 

 a large drafting room has been created by re- 

 moving partitions between old classrooms. 



In coordinating the work between the main 

 Texas Agricultural College and the two 

 junior colleges, created by the last legislature, 

 a representative has been assigned to the Vo- 

 cational College at Arlington and to the Junior 

 Agricultural College at StepbenviUe. Mr. J. 

 A. Evans, pecan specialist, of the Extension 

 Service, will be at Arlington, Texas, during 

 the current year while Dr. Frederick H. 

 Blodgett will be the representative at Stephen- 

 ville. 



Dr. Truman Michelson, of the Bureau of 

 American Ethnology, has been appointed pro- 

 fessor of ethnology in the George Washington 

 University. He will also retain his position as 

 ethnologist in the said bureau. 



Dr. H. B. Goodrich and Dr. L. L. Steele 

 will conduct courses in the department of biol- 

 ogy of Wesleyan University during the present 

 year, or until a successor is chosen to the late 

 Professor Herbert W. Conn. 



Professor Ealph H. McKee, formerly of 

 the University of Maine, and the past year in 

 charge of the research department of the Ten- 

 nessee Copper Company, has been appointed 

 associate in chemical engineering at Colum- 

 bia University. He will have in his especial 

 charge the graduate work in applied organic 

 chemistry. 



Dr. Leon V. Hartman has been appointed 

 professor of physics at the University of I^e- 

 vada. 



Dr. D. "Walter Steckbeck has been ap- 

 pointed assistant professor of botany in the 

 University of Pennsylvania. 



Lee R. Dice, Ph.D., of the department of 

 zoology of the Kansas State Agricultural Col- 

 lege, has been given a temporary appointment 

 as assistant professor of biology in the Mon- 



