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SCIENCE 



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A. Findlay, " Colloidal Matter aud its Proper- 

 tiea"; and Sir J. J. Thomson, " Spectrum 

 Analysis and its Application to Atomic Struc- 

 ture." The Faraday discourses began on 

 January 17, when Sir James Dewar gave 

 a lecture on " Liquid Air and the War'' ; and 

 other discoiirses were announced by the follow- 

 ing gentlement: Lieutenant Colonel A. Bal- 

 four, Professor H. H. Turner, Professor J. G. 

 Adami, Professor C. G. Knott, ilr. A. T. 

 Hare, Professor J. A. McClelland, Professor 

 H C. H. Carpenter, Professor A. Keith, Pro- 

 fessor W. W. "Watts, Sir John H. A. Mac- 

 donald and Sir J. J. Thomson. 



The United States nitrate plants were built 

 with the greatest urgency to meet imperative 

 military necessities. These immediate mili- 

 tary demands were extinguished by the signing 

 of the armistice. The problem now is to endow 

 these plants with the maximum peace-time 

 value, while maintaining and enhancing their 

 war efficiency. This involves new questions in 

 the technique of fertilization, aud requires not 

 only constructive but creative work. Follow- 

 ing a careful study of the situation, it has been 

 decided to establish forthwith a civilian organi- 

 zation, under the interdepartmental control of 

 the Secretaries of War, Navy, Interior, and 

 Agriculture, to be known as the United States 

 Fixed-Nitrogen Administration, and charged 

 with all the government's fixed-nitrogen inter- 

 ests. In due course the nitrate plants and 

 other interests now administered by the Nitrate 

 Division of the Ordnance Department of the 

 Army will be turned over to this new fixed- 

 nitrogen administration. Mr. Arthur Graham 

 Glasgow has been requested to act as first ad- 

 ministrator and to be responsible for creating 

 the new organization. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL 



NEWS 

 The Oberlin College administration has ap- 

 pointed a special faculty committee to stim- 

 ulate original research among members of the 

 science division. Hereafter when appoint- 

 mehts are made to the teacliing stafiFs of the 

 various science divisions special consideration 

 will be given to candidates who have already 



demonstrated some particular degree of fitness 

 in conducting original research. 



Recent demands for men skilled in geology 

 have led to the development of a special course 

 in practical geology which is being instituted 

 at the engineering schools of Columbia Uni- 

 versity. The course is three years in length 

 and is intended to train men for advisory and 

 professional work in connection with engineer- 

 ing and other operations involving a knowl- 

 edge of ground structure as well as for special 

 studies of mining prospects and developments 

 and other more formal geological investiga- 

 tions. The coiu-se leads to the degree of engi- 

 neer of mines in geology. 



Dr. George Norlix. professor of Greek in 

 the University of Colorado, has been elected 

 president to succeed President Farrand. Dr. 

 Norlin was elected to the presidency by the 

 regents on the recommendation of a committee 

 of the faculty. 



Dr. Ralph R. Dykstra, for eight years a 

 member of the faculty of the Kansas State 

 Agricultural College, has been appointed head 

 of the department of veterinary medicine. 



Dr. a. B. Dawson, Ph.D., (Han'ard, 1918), 

 professor of biology in the Mount Allison Uni- 

 versity, has been appointed assistant professor 

 of microscopical anatomy in the Loyola Uni- 

 versity School of Medicine. 



The senate of London University has ap- 

 pointed Dr. Reginald R. Gates, M.A. (Mount 

 Allison), D.Sc. (McGill), Ph.D. (Chicago), 

 for three years as from January 1, 1919, to 

 the newly-established university readership in 

 botany tenable at King's College. 



DISCUSSION AND CORRESPONDENCE 



GERMAN TERMS IN ANATOMY 



The Anatomical Society of Great Britain 

 and Ireland, at a meeting on March 1, 1918 at 

 King's College. London, received and unani- 

 mously adopted a report by its Committee 

 on Nomenclature. It resolved, without a dis- 

 sentient vote, that the following paragraph of 

 the report should be circulated among the 

 several corporations and other bodies inter- 

 ested in the progress of medical education : 



