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SCIENCE 



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found that other provinces have suffered on 

 approximately the same scale. No part of the 

 country seems to have escaped, although the 

 visitation was lightest in Bengal, and even 

 the dry and bracing Himalayan tracts are re- 

 ported to have been severely attacked. The 

 population of the Punjab and the Punjab na- 

 tive states is about 24,000,000, and of the whole 

 of India about 315,000,000. If the influenza 

 death-rate proves as heavy throughout India as 

 in the Punjab, this would give a total death- 

 roll of over 3,000,000. It is planned to estab- 

 lish a Medical Research Institute in Bombay 

 on the lines of the Rockefeller Institute to 

 which large donations have already been 

 promised. 



The library of the Rothamstead Experi- 

 mental Station in England has received a 

 check for £300 from the Carnegie Trust, for 

 the purchase of important reference books. 

 This is the second gift made by the Carnegie 

 trustees to the library, a check for a like 

 amount having been given two years ago. 

 The object is to afford agricultural students 

 and experts using the library the opportunity 

 of consulting the most recent and most im- 

 portant treatises on agriculture and allied 

 sciences. Two valuable gifts have also been 

 received from Captain the Hon. Rupert Guin- 

 ness. The library is fortunate in possessing 

 an unusually good collection of early printed 

 books on agriculture of the fifteenth and six- 

 teenth and seventeenth centuries; to these 

 Captain Guinness has now added perfect and 

 beautiful copies of the first and second printed 

 books on the subject — namely, the volume on 

 agriculture by Crescentius, printed in 1471 

 at Augsburg, and Jensen's edition of the 

 Latin agricultural writers, printed at Venice 

 in 1472. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL 

 NEWS 



An anonymous donor has agreed to pay over 

 to the corporation treasurer of Vassar College 

 dollar for dollar up to $150,000 provided a like 

 amount was paid or pledged by the alumnse not 

 later than February 28, 1919. 



Pacific College at Newberg, Oregon, has re- 

 ceived an addition of $15,000 to its endowment 

 fund from the estate of Mary E. Mann. 



The faculty of medicine of Western Univer- 

 sity, London, Ont., is planning the erection of 

 a new medical college building at an estimated 

 cost of $100,000. 



Medical colleges have been organized in the 

 military zone in France to be attended by mili- 

 tary men and to teach military medicine. 

 One of these colleges will be near Rheims 

 where there are already 3,000 beds and 70 

 students. The curriculum comprises surgery, 

 medicine, histology and medical physics. 



The school of chemistry of the University of 

 Pittsburgh announces the following additions 

 to its staff: Dr. Alexander Lowy, assistant pro- 

 fessor of organic chemistry; Mr. Leon E. 

 Jenks, assistant professor of analytical chem- 

 istry; Mr. Blaine B. Westcott, instructor in 

 organic chemistry. 



Assistant Professor Lee Irving Knight, of 

 the department of botany at the University of 

 Chicago, has been appointed plant physiologist 

 in the division of plant pathology at the Minne- 

 sota experiment station. 



Professor Hilton Ira Jones has been 

 elected head of the department of chemistry at 

 the Oklahoma Agricultural and Mechanical 

 College to succeed Dr. L. Chas. Raiford, who 

 becomes associate professor of organic chem- 

 istry in the University of Iowa. Dr. Jones was 

 formerly head of the department of chemistry 

 at Dakota Wesleyan University, Mitchell, 

 South Dakota. 



DISCUSSION AND CORRESPONDENCE 



TWO NEW INSTANCES OF POLYEMBRYONY 

 AMONG THE ENCYRTID.ffi 



Dr. Raffaelle Sarra has recently published 

 at Portici, Italy, two important papers, au- 

 thor's extras of which have just reached Wash- 

 ington. They are from the Bulletin of the 

 Laboratory of General and Agricultural Zool- 

 ogy of the Superior School of Agriculture at 

 Portici, Vols. X., and XII., and are entitled 

 " Osscrvazioni Biologiche sull' Anarsia linea- 

 tella Z. dannosa al frutto del mandorlo " and 



