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pose. The present expedition has been ren- 

 dered possible by a grant from the "Rask- 

 orsted Fund." The probable site of the station 

 will be in the Ke islands, previous research 

 having shown that there is an unusual abun- 

 dance of animal life in the waters to the west 

 of the group. What is really a deep-water 

 fauna is here found at comparatively small 

 depths — 200-300 meterS' — making it easy to col- 

 lect rare deep-water species. It is possible 

 that Dutch cooperation may be secured, and 

 in any case the intention is to give an inter- 

 national character to the station. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL 

 NOTES 



Mrs. Doeotht Whitney Straight will give 

 to Cornell University a million-dollar building 

 to be used as a center for the social and reci-e- 

 ational life of the students. 



At the commencement of Princeton Univer- 

 sity a gift of $100,000 was announced from 

 James H. Loekhart, of Pittsburgh, for the en- 

 dowment of scholarships in memory of his 

 father, Charles Loekhart. 



Hearst Hall and Hearst Hall Annex were 

 destroyed and the Pathology Building of the 

 University of California was damaged on June 

 21 in a fii'e with estimated loss of $100,000. 

 Hearst Hall, a large frame structure, was the 

 gift to the university women of Mrs. Phoebe 

 Apperson Hearst. Mr. WUliam Randolph 

 Hearst has undertaken to rebuild Hearst Hall 

 and its accessory buildings in fireproof material. 



De. Haven Emerson has been appointed 

 professor of public health and administration 

 in the College of Physicians and Sui-geous, 

 Columbia University, and given the task of 

 working out a plan for the organization of the 

 Institute of Public Health established by the 

 bequest of the late Joseph A. DeLamar. 



Me. Sigpeed Hauge and Mr. Robert Evans 

 have been appointed instructors in the division 

 of agricultural biochemistry of the University 

 of Minnesota. Dr. Paul P. Sharp, instructor 

 in the division, has been appointed assistant 

 chemist of the Montana Agricultural Experi- 

 ment Station. 



Professor S. I. Koenhausee, of Denison 



University, has been appointed head of the de- 

 partment of anatomy of the School of Medi- 

 cine of the University of Louisville, in the place 

 left vacant by Dr. Chas. Brookover. During 

 the summer Dr. Kornhauser will be biological 

 assistant to Colonel William G. Atwood, direc- 

 tor for the committee on marine piling investi- 

 gations of the National Research Council. 



Dr. Alfred Povah, formerly associate pro- 

 fessor of plant pathology and associate plant 

 pathologist at Alabama Polytechnic Institute, 

 has been appointed assistant professor of bot- 

 any at Northwestern University. 



Dr. a. 0. Weese, professor of biology at 

 the University of New Mexico for the past ten 

 years, has accepted the professorship of biology 

 at James Millikin University, Decatur, Illinois, 

 recently made vacant by the death of Dr. A. A. 

 Tyler. Professor Weese has spent the past 

 year at the University of Illinois. 



DISCUSSION AND CORRESPOND- 

 ENCE 



THE NEW CATASTROPHISM AND ITS 

 DEFENDER 



Reference was made in my contribution to 

 Science for February 17 to Professor Price, 

 alleged geologist, upon whose scientific vagaries 

 a reactionary theology relies much in its recent 

 attack on evolution — the result of a recru- 

 descence of the old conflict which such a the- 

 ology has ever waged against the progress of 

 science. 



George McCready Price, who since 1906 has 

 held positions as professor of geology, College 

 of Medical Evangelists, Loma Linda, Califor- 

 nia, professor of English literature, Fernando 

 Academy, California, and professor of chem- 

 istry and physics, Lodi Academy, California, 

 is evidently in the religious denomination 

 (Seventh Day Adventist) to which he belongs 

 held to be a man of considerable versatility. 



The writings by which he is best known are 

 two books, "Fundamentals of Geology" (1913), 

 and "Q. E. D., or New Lights on the Doctrine 

 of Creation" (1917), and nimierous articles in 

 the religious press — chiefly the Philadelphia 

 Sunday School Times. 



The distinctive ideas for which he stands in 



