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mal husbandry. A new college circular de- 

 scribing this course will be ready for distri- 

 bution about the middle of August. 



Samuel L. Bootheoyd, assistant professor 

 of topographic and geodetic engineering in 

 the College of Civil Engineering of Cor- 

 nell University, has resigned to accept the 

 associate professorship of astronomy and 

 mathematics in the University of Washington, 

 succeeding Professor James E. Gould. The 

 trustees have promoted Paul Halladay Under- 

 wood, instructor in the college, to the rank of 

 assistant professor and appointed him to the 

 place vacated by Professor Boothroyd. The 

 following appointments have also been made: 

 Ransom E. Somers, instructor in economic 

 geology; E. H. Kennard and T. B. Brown, 

 assistants in physics, and E. A. Gulick, as- 

 sistant in chemistry. 



H. N. Parker, of the Ulinois Experiment 

 Station, will head the division of sanitary 

 dairying of the university next year. Pro- 

 fessor B. E. Eickards will enter the employ 

 of an Indianapolis manufacturing firm. 



Db. Arthur E. Hill, of New York Univer- 

 sity, has been appointed professor of chemis- 

 try and director of the laboratory to succeed 

 Professor Lamb. 



George E. Wells, Ph.D. (Hopkins, '12), 

 has been appointed instructor in psychology at 

 Oberlin College. 



L. E. Geissler, Ph.D. (Cornell), has re- 

 signed his position as research psychologist in 

 the Physical Laboratory of the National Elec- 

 tric Lamp Association, Cleveland, to become 

 professor of psychology at the University of 

 Georgia. He will organize and direct the new 

 psychological laboratory to be established in 

 connection with the School of Education. The 

 laboratory will occupy seven or eight rooms 

 in George Peabody Hall, the new home of the 

 School of Education now under construction, 

 and will be furnished with all modem equip- 

 ment. 



William E. Barrows, Jr., has been ap- 

 pointed professor of electrical engineering at 

 the University of Maine. For the past six 



years he has been assistant professor of elec- 

 trical engineering at the Armour Institute of 

 Technology. 



Dr. W. H. Warren, connected during the 

 past year with the department of chemistry of 

 Clark College, has recently been appointed 

 professor of chemistry in Wheaton College, 

 Norton, Massachusetts. 



Professor Charles E. Decker, M.S. (Chi- 

 cago), has been appointed assistant professor 

 of geology and biology at Allegheny College. 



Db. Erank Elbert Wheelock, instructor in 

 physics in the University of Missouri, has been 

 appointed professor of physics in Mount Alli- 

 son College, Sackville, New Brunswick. 



The following appointments have been made 

 in consequence of the new grant in the Uni- 

 versity of London made by the London County 

 Council for the increase of the university 

 professoriate: Dr. J. A. Fleming, D.Sc, 

 F.E.S., professor of electrical engineering (to 

 teach at University College) ; Dr. Arthur 

 Dendy, D.Sc, F.E.S., professor of zoology (to 

 teach at King's College). 



Professor V. Bjerknes, of the University 

 of Christiania, has been offered the chair of 

 geophysics at Leipzig. 



Dr. Jean Brunhes, professor at Lausanne 

 and Freiburg, has been called to the chair of 

 anthropogeography in the College de France. 



DISCUSSION AND COBRESPONDENCE 



" genes " NOT MADE IN GERMANY 



To THE Editor of Science : The new version 

 of " genes " in the issue of May 24 carries a 

 reminder of Mark Twain's "jumping frog." 

 Darwin's word pangen is taken into German 

 to alter the vowel quantity and then comes 

 back into English accompanied by a super- 

 fluous letter and a new system of philology 

 elaborated to justify the " genes " and " pan- 

 genes " that adorn the pages of recent publi- 

 cations on genetics. 



The custom has been to use Latin trans- 

 literations of Greek derivatives, but scientific 

 literature is now to have a more Teutonic 

 flavor. The new system need not be confined 



