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SCIENCE 



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shall have supervision of the work of con- 

 servation. The house amended the bill by au- 

 thorizing the Illinois Academy of Science to 

 suggest candidates for membership on the 

 board. 



The Bellevue Hospital unit, numbering 

 three hundred physicians, nurses and enlisted 

 men, attached to Base Hospital No. 1, at 

 Vichy, near Paris, has received orders to pre- 

 pare to sail and probably will return at once. 

 Major John H. Wyckoff, secretary of the med- 

 ical faculty of the New York University and 

 Bellevue Hospital Medical College, who was 

 formerly one of the heads of the American 

 hospital, has received a letter from Lieutenant 

 Colonel Arthur M. Wright, commander of the 

 hospital, in which he said his organization had 

 been relieved and that the hospital had been 

 taken over by an evacuation hospital person- 

 nel. The unit is composed of many well- 

 known New York physicians and nurses from 

 Bellevue Hospital and 200 enlisted men who 

 were recruited at the Medical College for over- 

 seas duty. It set sail for France on February 

 18, 1918, and has since handled a large number 

 of the American Army wounded cases. Base 

 Hospital No. 1 was one of the largest near 

 Paris and received mostly American cases. 

 The organization was prepared for 500 pa- 

 tients but at one time cared for as many as 

 3,200 cases. The imit includes twenty-six 

 physicians, sixty-five nurses and 200 enlisted 

 men. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL 



NEWS 



At the commemoration day exercises of the 

 Johns Hopkins University on February 22, Dr. 

 William H. Welch, who presided, announced 

 that a sum of approximately $400,000 had been 

 given anonymously for the erection of a build- 

 ing at the Johns Hopkins Hospital to serve as 

 a woman's clinic. 



The present applied science building of the 

 University of Toronto, which has been con- 

 demned, will be removed and in its place will 

 be erected a large engineering building. The 

 chemistry and mining buildings will be en- 

 larged and will accommodate the department 



of electrical engineering and applied me- 

 elianics. 



Tpie farmers of New Jersey, through their 

 representatives at the annual state agricul- 

 tural convention at the State Capitol at Tren- 

 ton, have requested the Legislature to provide 

 an appropriatidn for a horticultural building 

 at the State College of Agriculture at New 

 Brunswick. 



The gift to the University of Caifornia Mu- 

 seum of valuable textiles left by the E. E. 

 Caswell Estate and presented to the univer- 

 sity through Regent Phoebe A. Hearst, was 

 acknowledged by the board of regents at the 

 recent monthly meeting in San Francisco. 

 The textiles have been loaned to the Palace of 

 Fine Arts for exhibition. 



In the reorganization on the basis of depart- 

 ments at Yale University, Professor B. B. 

 Boltwood has been elected chairman of the 

 university department of chemistry. 



Professor Guy West Wilson has been ap- 

 pointed associate botanist and plant pathologist 

 in Clemson College, South Carolina. 



From Nature we learn that Dr. R. M. Cavan, 

 of the chemistry department of University Col- 

 lege, Nottingham, has been appointed principal 

 of the Technical College, Darlington, and 

 Mr. W. H. Watson, of the chemistry depart- 

 ment of the Northern Polytechnic Institute, 

 has been appointed vice-'principal and head of 

 the chemistry and natural science department 

 of the Municipal College, Portsmouth. 



DISCUSSION AND CORRESPONDENCE 



ELECTRO-THERMO-REGULATOR FOR WATER 

 BATHS 



I HAVE read with interest an article entitled 

 " Electro-Thermo-Regulator for Water Baths," 

 by Mr. Charles H. Otis, of the Western Re- 

 serve University, which appeared in Science, 

 of October 25, 1918. 



Thermostatic control of temperatures for 

 various scientific and technical purposes has 

 become increasingly important in recent years, 

 and we have, therefore, developed an ex- 

 tremely sensitive bi-metallic metal of homo- 

 geneous fonn adapted to such applications. 



