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shall accept the resisonsibility of providing for 

 appointing the staff and maintaining the school 

 when esfalilished. 



Such a school was recommended by the com- 

 mittee appointed early in 1921 to consider pro- 

 vision for post graduate medical examination 

 in London, and the recommendation was fur- 

 ther considered by an expert committee with 

 the minister of health as chairman. 



In view of the difiacuWyr at present of financ- 

 ing the scheme, the whole case was presented to 

 the Kockefeiler Foundation as one in which it 

 might think it well to cooperate in the general 

 interest of progress in public health. 



This gift follows the donation of £1,000,000 

 to the University of London and University 

 College Hospital. 



For providing the staff and maintaining the 

 proj)Osed school of hygiene, the government 

 will have to allocate £125,000 spread over a 

 period of five years. So long ago as 1915, 

 the Institute of Hygiene planned a great cen- 

 tral building in iVlarylebone Road, btit the es- 

 timate at that date of £47,000 for the build- 

 ing alone made it impossible to proceed. In 

 ]\Iarch of last year a new estimate was obtained 

 and it was found that the cost would approxi- 

 mate £125,000. The British Government felt 

 it impossible to allocate the necessary funds 

 at a period of such financial difficulty as the 

 present. 



In June, 1920, the Rockefeller Foundation 

 announced that it had provided endovv'ment 

 yielding £30,000 annually for the University 

 of London to aid medical study. At that time 

 it was said that the funds would be used to 

 support a new staff in anatomy at the college, 

 for an increase in the staff of physiology, for 

 a full-time unit in obstetrics and for various 

 items of increased laboratory and clinical ser- 

 vice. In a- statement issued at the time of the 

 gift by Dr. George E. Vincent, president of the 

 Rockefeller Foundation, it was said : 



Since the Eockefeller Foundation is cooperating 

 with governments in many parts of the British 

 Empire, it recognizes the importance of aiding 

 medical education in London, where the training 

 of personnel and the setting of standards for 

 Jioalth work throughout the eimpire are so largely 

 centered. 



LECTURES IN CHEMICAL ENGINEERING 



Ix connection with the recently organized 

 course of chemical engineering at Yale Univer- 

 sity, a series of lectures has been given during 

 the winter by prominent technologists includ- 

 ing : 



Dr. H. C. Parmelee, editor of Chemical and 

 3Ictalli:rriical Bngincering (opening lecture, Octo- 

 ber I'.i, 1921), "The chemical engineer." 



Mr. Fred Zeisberg, of the du Pont Company 

 (October 26), "Manufacture of nitric acid." 



Mr. A. E. Marshall, consulting engineer, Balti- 

 more, Md. (November 1), "The manufacture of 

 i3ulphuric acid and some points in the training of 

 the chemical engineer. ' ' 



Dr. Bradley Stoughton, consulting engineer, 

 New York City, (December 7), "The role of iron 

 and steel as relating to the manufacture and use 

 of chemical equipment and processes. ' ' 



Mr. L. D. Vorce, consulting engineer (December 

 15), "The electrolytic production of alkali and 

 chlorine. ' ' 



Mr. Walter E. Lunmius, Walter Lummus Com- 

 p.any, Boston, Mass. (January IS, 1G22), "Mod- 

 ern methods of fractional distillation. ' ' 



Dr. C. E. Downs, Barrett Company (Janu.Try 

 25), "Distillation ox coal-tar products." 



Dr. Otto Mantius, consulting engineer, New 

 York City (February 15), "Evaporation and 

 evaporators. ' ' 



THE SHELDON MEMORIAL 

 A PEW months ago, as already noted, in 

 SciEXCB, the Sheldon JMemorial Committee 

 was organized to receive subscriptions toward 

 a foundation in honor of the late Dr. Samuel 

 Sheldon, professor of electrical engineering 

 and physics at the Polytechnic Institute of 

 Brooklyn, 1889-1920. 



As chairman of the committee, I am glad to 

 report that we are now turning over to the 

 Treasurer of the Polytechnic Institute $15,018, 

 the sum so far paid in by more than 1,000 

 subscribers. There are still a few unpaid sub- 

 scriptions and we are hoping to secure enough 

 further pledges to raise the fund to at least 

 $20,000. Although the sum raised was hardly 

 sufficient really to endow a laboratory, the cor- 

 poration of the institute has ordered that the 

 Electrical Measurements Laboratory be known 

 hereafter as the Samuel Sheldon Memorial 

 Laboratory of Electrical Measurements and its 



