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SCIENCE 



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Kansas State Agricultural College and Ex- 

 periment Station, has resigned to become 

 state entomologist of New Jersey, succeeding 

 the late John B. Smith. In Dr. Headlee's 

 place at the Kansas College and Experiment 

 Station, Geo. A. Dean, M.S., has been placed 

 in charge of entomology and Eobert K. 

 Nabours, Ph.D. (Chicago), in charge of zool- 

 ogy. Further promotions and additions in the 

 department have been as follows: John W. 

 Scott, Ph.D. (Chicago), has been promoted 

 from instructor to assistant professor of zool- 

 ogy; Maurice C. Tanquary, Ph.D. (Illinois), 

 has been appointed instructor in entomology, 

 and Mary T. Harmon, Ph.D. (Indiana), in 

 zoology and J. W. McColloch has been ap- 

 pointed assistant entomologist. 



Dr. C. J. Steinmetz, formerly managing 

 editor of Country Life in America, has been 

 appointed assistant professor of landscape 

 horticulture at the University of Illinois, and 

 Ralph Rodney Root, of Harvard University, 

 has been appointed instructor. A number of 

 prominent specialists in landscape gardening 

 will lecture before the students this year; Mr. 

 Charles Mulford Robinson, a specialist in 

 city planning, will lecture for two weeks be- 

 ginning on November 8. There are thirty 

 students in the four-year course in landscape 

 gardening and one hundred and fifty in the 

 elementary course. 



The vacancy in the staff of the mechanical 

 engineering department of Lehigh University, 

 due to the death of Assistant Professor E. L. 

 Jones, has been filled by the appointment of 

 R. L. Spencer, B.S. Mr. Spencer is a gradu- 

 ate of the Iowa State College, where he has 

 taught for three years. 



Bartgis McGlone, Ph.D. (Hopkins, 'OY), 

 has been appointed associate in physiology 

 and embryology at the College of Physicians 

 and Surgeons, Baltimore. 



Among the committees appointed by the 

 board of overseers of Harvard University for 

 the year 1912-13 are the following: 



The Medical and Dental Schools — J. Collins 

 Warren, George B. Shattuek, Charles W. Bliot, 

 Alexander Cochrane, William Sturgis Bigelow, 



Henry H. Sprague, Henry Saltonstall Howe, 

 William L. Richardson, Charles P. Briggs, James 

 C. White, Charles H. Tweed. 



The Bussey Institution — Carroll Dunham, Wal- 

 ter C. Baylies, J. Arthur Beebe, John Lowell, 

 Nathaniel T. Kidder, Augustin H. Parker, Will- 

 iam H. Euddick, Isaac S. Whiting, Simon Flexner, 

 Daniel W. Field, Warren A. Eeed. 



The Observatory— 'Joel • H. Metcalf, George I. 

 Alden, Mrs. Henry Draper, Edwin Ginn, George 

 E. Agassiz, Elihu Thomson, Erasmus D. Leavitt, 

 Charles P. Choate, Jr., Charles B. Cross. 



The Museum of Comparative Zoology — J. Col- 

 lins Warrent, George P. Gardner, Dudley L. Pick- 

 man, Eodolphe L. Agassiz, John C. Phillips, J. B. 

 Henderson, Jr., Louis J. de Milhau. 



The Peabody Museum — George D. Markham, 

 Charles P. Bowditch, Augustus Hemenway, Jesse 

 W. Pewkes, Clarence J. Blake, Clarence B. Moore, 

 Elliot C. Lee, Louis J. de Milhau, John C. Phillips, 

 Thomas Barbour, Eobert G. Puller. 



The Jefferson Physical Laboratory and Depart- 

 ment of Physics — Howard Elliott, Elihu Thomson, 

 Erasmus D. Leavitt, Elliot C. Lee, Samuel Hill, 

 Hammond Vinton Hayes. 



The Chemical Laboratory — J. Collins Warren, 

 Clifford Eichardson, Elihu Thomson, Charles H. 

 W. Foster, John D. Pennock, Alexander Forbes. 



On Geology, Mineralogy and Petrography — 

 George B. Leighton, Eodolphe L. Agassiz, George 

 P. Gardner, William E. C. Eustis, Eaphael Pum- 

 pelly, William Sturgis Bigelow. 



On Zoology — William L. Eichardson, Augustus 

 Hemenway, William Brewster, Alexander Forbes, 

 John E. Thayer, Dudley L. Pickman, Francis N. 

 Baleh, John C. Phillips. 



On Botany— Nathaniel C. Nash, George G. Ken- 

 nedy, Walter Deane, Edward L. Band. 



On Mathematics — William Lowell Putnam, 

 George E. Eoosevelt, George V. Leverett, Philip 

 Stockton. 



DISCUSSION AND COBBESFONDENCE 



THE MEANING OP DRIESCH AND THE MEANING OP 

 VITALISM 



Professor Jennings's letter in Science of 

 October 4, 1912, contains some comments on 

 an article by the present vsrriter, published in 

 Science, July 21, 1911. These appear to mani- 

 fest some misapprehension, confirmed by some 

 inadvertent misquotation, of the article in 



