June 2, 1922] 



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liam Leishman, Professor G-raham Kerr, and 

 others. The officers of the Section of Anatomy 

 have chosen the following preliminary list of 

 subjects for discussion: (1) "The relation of 

 the urethra to the vagina," by Professor J. C. 

 Brash (Birmingham); (2) "The naked-eye 

 anatomy of the bone marrow, with age 

 changes," by Mr. Piney (Birmingham) ; (3) 

 "The teaching of anatomy by radiology in the 

 anatomy department," by Dr. J. M. Woodburn 

 Morison (Manchester); (4) "The problem of 

 the structure of the vertebrate head," by Dr. 

 W. B. Primrose (Glasgow); (5) A discussion 

 on the administration of the Anatomy Act will 

 be opened by Dr. Alexander Macphail. Dr. 

 Adam Patrick (16, Buckingham Terrace, Glas- 

 gow, W. ), one of the honorary secretaries of 

 the Section of Medicine, writes to say that 

 he or his co-secretaries will be glad to hear of 

 any members who might wish to submit short 

 papers in the section, in addition to having 

 the names of any who desire to take part in 

 discussions. The meetings of the sections will 

 be held on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, 

 July 26, 27 and 28. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL 

 NOTES 



It is announced that the contest of the will 

 of Amos F. Eno will be settled out of court by 

 the payment of about four million dollars to 

 Columbia University. The 1915 will, which 

 has been twice broken by juries but both times 

 upheld by courts on appeal, gave the residuary 

 estate to Colmnbia University. The will made 

 bequests of $250,000 each to the Metropolitan 

 Museum of Art, the American Museum of Nat- 

 ural History, the New York Association for 

 Improving the Condition of the Poor, and the 

 New York University. Had the will been 

 broken finally, these institutions would have 

 received nothing. Whether they receive the 

 full $250,000 each under the settlement, or what 

 proportion of the total they receive, is not dis- 

 closed. The Society of Mechanics and Trades- 

 men received $1,800,000 under the 1915 will, 

 and had that will been broken would have 

 received $2,000,000 under an earlier will. ' This 

 institution could not therefore be called upon 

 to sacrifice anything in order to satisfy the 

 heirs, and will receive the full $1,800,000. 



Dr. Sydney Walker, Jr. has provided $200 

 per annum for a scholarship for the further- 

 ance of research in physiology at the University 

 of Chicago in memory of his son. 



Dr. Herbert W. Mumford, who has been 

 away for a year on leave of absence from the 

 University of Illinois as director of live stock 

 ■marketing for the Illinois Agricultm-al Asso- 

 ciation, has been appointed dean of the College 

 of Agriculture as successor of Dr. Eugene 

 Davenport, who retires after twenty-seven 

 years service at the end of the present year. 



Dr. Walter R. Miles, research psychologist 

 at the nutrition laboratory of the Carnegie In- 

 stitution of Washington, Boston, has been ap- 

 pointed professor of experimental psychology 

 at Stanford University, to fill the vacancy cre- 

 ated by the retirement of Professor Frank 

 Angell at the close of the present academic 

 year. Dr. Angell has been professor of psy- 

 chology at Stanford almost from the time of 

 the opening of the university, having joined 

 the faculty in 1892. 



Dr. Harry D. Kitsok, professor of psychol- 

 ogy at Indiana University, will lecture at the 

 summer session of New York University School 

 of Commerce and Finance, giving courses on 

 employment psychology and the psychology of 

 advertising and selling. 



DISCUSSION AND CORRESPOND- 

 ENCE 

 THE WRITING OF POPULAR SCIENCE 

 To TiiE Editor op Science: I have read 

 with much interest Dr. Slosson's letter^ refer- 

 ring to my recent remarks- regarding the wri- 

 ting of popular science. I fear that Dr. 

 Slosson has missed the main object of those 

 remarks. They were not primarily intended to 

 discourage the presentation of "mere informa- 

 tion," though they did aim to discourage the 

 practice of calling such matter "science," and 

 of describing it as "scientific," but they were 

 especially intended to point out the need of 

 driving home to the layman the fact that science 

 does not consist in the accumulation and cata- 

 loguing of such information, but in the estab- 

 lishing of relations between observed facts. 



1 Science, 5.5: 480, 1922. 



2 Science, 55: 374, 1922. 



