August .23, 1912] 



SCIENCE 



239 



, UNIVEBSITT AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS 



Mr. Julius Eosenwald, of Chicago, cele- 

 brated his fiftieth birthday by gifts of $687,- 

 500 for charitable and educational purposes, 

 including $250,000 to the University of Chi- 

 cago. 



The estate of the late Dr. J. E. Eobinson, 

 first governor of Kansas, which by his will 

 was left to the University of Kansas on the 

 death of his wife, has become available. The 

 value of the estate is in the neighborhood of 

 $100,000. It is to be used for the medical 

 school. 



By the will of Mr. James Hall, the Univer- 

 sity of Manchester will ultimately receive at 

 least £40,000 for the endowment of chairs of 

 chemistry and philosophy and scholarships in 

 these subjects. 



New science laboratories at Cranleigh 

 School, Surrey, the gift of Sir C. Chadwyck- 

 Healey, were recently opened by Sir William 



The Saxon government has decided against 

 the project for a university at Dresden on the 

 ground that the learned professions are already 

 overcrowded and that the government does not 

 regard the maintenance of two universities of 

 the first grade as practicable. 



Mr. Archibald A. Bowman, M.A., lecturer 

 in logic at Glasgow University, has been ap- 

 pointed professor of philosophy in Princeton 

 University to fill the vacancy caused by Pro- 

 fessor J. G. Hibben's election to the presi- 

 dency. 



Professor W. J. Wright, formerly of the 

 department of horticulture of the Pennsyl- 

 vania State College, has resigned to accept the 

 directorship of the New York State School of 

 Agriculture at Alfred University, AKred, 

 New York. 



The board of trustees of the University of 

 .Illinois, at a recent meeting, authorized three 

 new professorships in the College of Agricul- 

 ture. These are as follows : A professorship 

 in landscape art, a professorship in animal 

 pathology, and a professorship in dairy hus- 



bandry. The appointinent of an associate 

 and an instructor in landscape art and an as- 

 sistant professor of genetics was also author- 

 ized. Last year a department of forestry was 

 created but the chair was not fiUed at that 

 time. Bethel Stewart Pickett, an Illinois 

 graduate student and lately head of the hor- 

 ticulture department at the New Hampshire 

 Agricultural College, has been appointed as- 

 sistant professor of pomology. He brings an 

 assistant with him from New Hampshire, Mr. 

 J. J. Gardner, who will be an instructor in 

 pomology. Dr. John Detlefson, lately of 

 Harvard and Bussey Institution, Boston, has 

 been appointed assistant professor of the new 

 division of genetics in the animal husbandry 

 department. Dr. Walter E. Joseph, of South 

 Dakota Agricultural College, will be an in- 

 structor in animal husbandry, and V. A. 

 Place, of Ohio State University, assistant in 

 animal husbandry. Among the appointments 

 made in departments allied to agriculture are 

 those of Henry C. P. Weber, of the U. S. 

 Bureau of Standards, as associate in chem- 

 istry, and of Otto Eahn, formerly of the 

 Agricultural Experiment Station of Halle, 

 Germany, and of the Massachusetts Agricul- 

 tural College as assistant professor of bacter- 

 iology. 



At the Minnesota Experiment Station in 

 the division of agricultural engineering, 

 Messrs. J. L. Mowry, H. B. Eoe and A. M. 

 Bull were promoted in May from the rank of 

 instructor to that of assistant professor. A. 

 V. Storm, professor of agricultural education, 

 Iowa State College, has been elected professor 

 of agricultural education. J. O. Eankin, as- 

 sistant professor of economics in the Iowa 

 State College, has been elected editor, with 

 the rank of professor. Associate Professor W. 

 H. Tomhave has resigned to accept a pro- 

 fessorship in animal husbandry at the Penn- 

 sylvania State College. W. A. McKerrow 

 was elected specialist in animal husbandry in 

 the extension division with the rank of as- 

 sistant professor, to succeed Mr. Tomhave. 

 Professor Frederic H. Stoneburn, of the Con- 



