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SCIENCE 



[N. S. Vol. XXXVI. No. 939 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS 



The University of Wisconsin plans to de- 

 velop in due time a full course in medicine in 

 accordance with the highest standards, and in 

 so doing it will utilize the clinical facilities 

 of Milwaukee as far as they are available ac- 

 cording to the decision of the regents at their 

 last meeting. At present only two years of 

 the four-year medical course are given. 



In connection with the announcement of the 

 removal of Professor Herbert J. Webber from 

 Cornell University to the University of Cali- 

 fornia, the position which he will fill was in- 

 correctly given. He will be director of the 

 Citrus Experiment Station and dean of the 

 Graduate School of Tropical Agriculture. 

 The University of California has for several 

 years maintained four separate substations in 

 southern California. These are to be united 

 into an enlarged research station which will 

 probably be located at Riverside. While this 

 station will be designated the Citrus Experi- 

 ment Station after the dominant industry of 

 southern California, the work will be with all 

 crops which are grovsnn in that region. The 

 coupling with the station for agricultural re- 

 search of the Graduate School of Tropical 

 Agriculture will make it unique among our 

 agricultural experiment stations. 



At the State University of Kentucky Dr. 

 Joseph H. Kastle has been appointed director 

 of the Agricultural Experiment Station and 

 dean of the College of Agriculture. 



Dr. Jesse More Greenman has resigned 

 from the University of Chicago and the Field 

 Museum of Natural History to accept an as- 

 sociate professorship in botany at Washington 

 University and the position of curator of the 

 herbarium at the Missouri Botanical Garden. 

 He will assume his duties in St. Louis on Jan- 

 uary 1. 



Mr. C. R. Orton, of Purdue University, has 

 been elected to fill the vacancy at the Pennsyl- 

 vania State College, made by the resignation 

 of Professor H. R. Fulton. Mr. Orton will 

 take up his duties on January 1, and will have 

 charge of the teaching and investigation in 

 plant pathology which includes forest pathol- 

 ogy as well as the other special courses in plant 

 diseases. 



DISCUSSION AND COREESFONDENCE 

 PHILIPPINE SHARKS 



To THE Editor of Science: In the issue of 

 Science for July 19, 1912, Mr. C. Tate Regan 

 makes observations on some new Philippine 

 sharks described by me and Mr. Lewis Rad- 

 cliffe in two papers in Proceedings of the U. S. 

 National Museum (Vol. 41, 1912). (1) Mr. 

 Regan expresses the opinion that a shark char- 

 acterized by a single dorsal fin, taken by the 

 Albatross in the Sea of Mindanao at a depth 

 of 585 fathoms and by us made the type of a 

 new family and genus, is not what it seems to 

 be ; he " suspects " that the absence of the first 

 dorsal is abnormal or accidental. This sus- 

 picion is not justified by any evidence afforded 

 by the specimen itself, which has been critic- 

 ally examined by Dr. Theodore Gill and other 

 competent zoologists, who were consulted in 

 advance of publication. (2) Mr. Regan finds 

 that Nasiqualus, established as a new genus of 

 Squalidas, " corresponds to a section of Cen- 

 trophorus which has already received the 

 names Acanthidium and Deania." Nasiqualus 

 certainly falls within the composite genus Cen- 

 trophorus as conceived by Mr. Regan, but in 

 either dentition or dermal structure it differs 

 markedly from Deania and Acanthidium. The 

 last named genus is not made a synonym of 

 Centrophorus by Mr. Regan in his paper cited 

 (Annals and Magazine of Natural History, 

 Vol. II., eighth series, 1908) but of Spinax 

 Cuvier, a name antedated by seven years by 

 Rafinesque's Etmopterus. (3) Mr. Regan con- 

 cedes that " a second new genus, Squalidus, is 

 valid." Two esteemed correspondents, appar- 

 ently having seen Mr. Regan's communication, 

 have recently notified me that Squalidus is not 

 a tenable name, being preoccupied. This 

 name, however, does not appear anywhere in 

 our paper. The name used was Squaliolus, in 

 allusion to the small size of the type species, 

 the fully mature male being only 15 cm. long. 

 H. M. Smith 



BUItEAU OF TiSHERIES, 



Washington, D. C. 



BERARDIUS BAIRDn IN JAPAN 



During 1910 while in Japan studying and 

 collecting whales for the American Museum 



