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Dr. Ales Hrdlicka will deliver duriiifr the 

 months of April and May a series of four lec- 

 tures at the medical college of the Georjjetown 

 University, on " The relations of anthropology 

 to medicine." 



The reconstruction lectures given Saturday 

 evenings at Yale University last t^rm during 

 January. February and March were resimied 

 on April 5 and will continue through May 17. 

 The complete schedule of the remaining lec- 

 tures is as follows: 



April 5. Dean Charles E. Brown, "Reconstruc- 

 tion and the churches. ' ' 



April 12. Professor Lester P. Breckenridge, 

 "Reconstruction and engineering." 



April 19. Dean George Blumer, "Beconstruc- 

 tion and the medical profession." 



April 26. Professor C.-E. A. Winslow, "Be- 

 constructiou and public health. ' ' 



May o. Director Bussell H. Chittenden, "Re- 

 construction and science." 



May 10. Dean Thomas W. Swan, "Reconstruc- 

 tion and the legal profession. ' ' 



May 17. Professor Irving Fisher, "Beconstnic- 

 tion and the price level. ' ' 



The Cutter lectures on preventive medicine 

 given annually under the terms of a bequest 

 from John Clarence Cutter, were given at the 

 Harvard Medical School on March 17 by 

 Harry E. Mock, j\[.D.. Lientenant Colonel, 

 M.C., U.S.A., Division of Eeconstruction of 

 Disabled Soldiers War Department, Washing- 

 ton, TD. C, on " Indiustrial medicine considered 

 from an economic viewix)int," followed by 

 ■' Reclaiming the disabled," illustrated by mo- 

 tion pictures, and on April 2, 3 and 4 by Alice 

 Hamilton, M.D., special investigator of the 

 U. S. Department of Labor, Chicago, Illinois. 

 on " Industrial poisoning in the United 

 States." The subjects of the three lectures 

 were: (1) "Lead"; (2) "Other organic 

 poisons"; (3) "Poisons of the aromatic series 

 and of the fatty series." 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL 



NEWS 

 An alumni memorial to honor Dr. C. R. 

 Van Hise, lat« president of the University of 



Wisconsin, has been proposed in the form of 

 a Van Hise Memorial Geological Building to 

 be erected on the campus to bring together 

 under one roof the departments of geology 

 and mining engineering, as well as the state 

 and national geological surveys. 



Two gifts to the Harvard Medical School 

 have been received recently. One is an anony- 

 mous donation of $.50,000 for the establish- 

 ment of the James C. Melvin Fund for Trop- 

 ical Medicine. The income is to be used for 

 research in preventive medicine. The otlier 

 is the residuary bequest of Horace Fletcher, 

 who established a wide popular reputation as 

 a dietitian. The income is to be used to 

 " foster knowledge of healthful nutrition." 



ScoviLL Park, embracing several acres of 

 land lying nest to the property of the Uni- 

 versity of Kentucky in Lexington, Kentucky, 

 has been donated to the university by the city. 

 The land is given without condition except 

 that it he made available to the city for play- 

 ground purposes until the university is ready 

 to build on it. 



Professor Carlton I. Lambert, F.R.A.S., 

 an old scholar of the City of London School, 

 has given £1,000 with which to found a 

 scholarshiij for applied science at the school. 



New York LTnitorsity and Bellevue Hos- 

 pital Medical College will admit women on 

 the same basis as men and with full privileges 

 of the college, in September. 



Dr. Horace D. Arnold has resigned as 

 director of the graduate school of medicine of 

 Harvard University. 



Dr. Victor Ziegler. professor of geology 

 and mineralogy' and head of the department 

 at the Colorado School of ilines, has resigned 

 this position. 



Dr. C. C. Forsaitii, who has been instructor 

 in the department of wood technology at the 

 New York State College of Forestry, at Syra- 

 cuse University, for the past year and a half, 

 has been appointed assistant professor of wood 

 technology in the same institution. 



