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of the Medical School of Tale University, 

 have returned from Russia, where they were 

 members of the American Eed Cross Mission 

 to assist in the sanitary survey. 



Peofessor Wallace 0. Sabine, Harvard ex- 

 change professor at Paris last year, has re- 

 turned to America. 



Professor Dr. Theodore Kocher, chief sur- 

 geon of the Inselspital, Berne, Switzerland, 

 and professor at the medical faculty of the 

 University of Berne, died on July 27. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL 

 NEWS 



The teaching hospital of the University of 

 ^Nebraska college of medicine was dedicated 

 with appropriate ceremonies on October 17, 

 the principal speaker being Chancellor Avery 

 of the university. The new structure, now in 

 full operation with a capacity of 119 beds, 

 was made possible by three legislative appro- 

 priations, $150,000 for the building; $65,000 

 for equipment and $100,000 for a biennial 

 maintenance. 



Professor Henry C. Anderson, of the me- 

 chanical engineering department, of the Uni- 

 versity of Michigan, who has been on leave of 

 absence for the past two years, has been ap- 

 pointed head of the department in place of 

 Professor John R. Allen, who resigned to ac- 

 cept the deanship in the college of engineering 

 at the University of Minnesota. 



Professor C. F. Curtis Riley, who has 

 been in charge of the department of biology 

 at the State Normal College, Milwaukee, Wis- 

 consin, for the past four years, has been ap- 

 pointed special lecturer in animal behavior, in 

 the department of forest zoology, at the New 

 York State College of Forestry at Syracuse 

 University. 



Dr. L. G. Rowntree, of the University of 

 Minnesota, has declined the deanship of the 

 Illinois school of medicine. His salary at 

 Minnesota has been increased to six thousand 

 dollars and an additional appropriation has 

 been made for the further development of his 

 department of medicine. 



Dr. Carl Eosenow (Ph.D., Chicago '17), 

 and Dr. Jacob Kantor (Ph.D. '14, Ph.D. '17, 

 Chicago) have been appointed instructors in 

 the department of psychology of the Univer- 

 sity of Chicago. 



At the college of medicine of the University 

 of Nebraska Dr. Maurice I. Smith, for several 

 years connected with the department of 

 pharmacology at the University of Michigan, 

 has been placed in charge of the department 

 of pharmacology. Mr. J. A. Kittleson, of the 

 University of Minnesota, has accepted the 

 position of assistant professor of anatomy and 

 Dr. S. A. Rubnitz has been made instructor 

 in biochemistry. 



At Queen's University, Kingston, Canada, 

 E. Flammer, Ph.D. (Harvard), has been ap- 

 pointed assistant professor of physics; O. F. 

 S. Smith, M.Sc. (Pennsylvania State) has 

 been made lecturer in the same department. 

 In the department of geology, Kirtley F. 

 Mather, Ph.D. (Chicago), has been promoted 

 from associate professor to professor of 

 paleontology. 



Dr. Olaf Bergeim of the department of 

 physiological chemistry of Jefferson Medical 

 College, has been promoted to associate in 

 that department. 



Dr. a. E. Shipley, Master of Christs Col- 

 lege, Cambridge University, has succeeded to 

 the office of vice chancellor of the University, 

 in succession to the Rev. T. C. Fitzpatrick, 

 president of Queen's College. 



DISCUSSION AND CORRESPONDENCE 



ALGONKIAN BACTERIA AND POPULAR 

 SCIENCE 



There are two points in Dr. R. S. Breed's 

 communication of September 7 entitled " Pop- 

 ular Science " to which I would like to call at- 

 tention. 



First, my obvious error in the citation from 

 page 292 of The Scientific Monthly. How this 

 non sequitur slipped through my reading and 

 that of Dr. I. J. Kligler I do not know. It is 

 a wholly illogical statement which is corrected 

 and replaced in the following sentence of my 



