Jtjxe 13, 1919] 



SCIENCE 



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livered on Monday, June 9, by Michael F- 

 Guyer, Ph.D., professor of zoology in the Uni- 

 versity of Wisconsin, on " The transmission 

 of eye-defects induced in rabbits by means of 

 lens-sensitized fowl-serum." 



Special exercises honoring the late Presi- 

 dent Charles E. Van Hise, '79, will be held 

 during Commencement week on Alumni day 

 at the University of Wisconsin, June 24. 



The death is announced at the age of sixty 

 years of Dr. Ferdinand G. TViechmann, a con- 

 sulting chemical engineer of New York City, 

 known especially for his work on sugar chem- 

 istry. 



, Lawrence M. Lambe, since 1884 on the 

 paleontological staff of the Canadian Geolog- 

 ical Survey, has died at the age of fifty-five 

 years. 



Dr. Robert Chapmax Davis, lecturer on 

 botany in the University of Edinburgh, re- 

 cently captain in the Medical Corps of the 

 British Army, has died from influenza at the 

 age of thirty-two years. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL 

 NEWS 



We learn from Nature that a gift of £210,- 

 000 to the University of Cambridge for a 

 chemical school was announced by the Vice- 

 Chancellor, Dr. A. E. Shipley, at the meeting 

 of the senate on May 13. Particulars were 

 given in the following extracts from a letter 

 from Mr. R. Waley Cohen : " It has been an 

 immense pleasure to me to be able to write to 

 Sir William Pope and tell him that the Brit- 

 ish oil companies have agreed to join together 

 in a scheme for endowing a chemical school at 

 Cambridge. The Burma Oil Co. have agreed 

 to contribute £50,000; the Anglo-Persian Oil 

 Co., £.50,000; the Anglo-Saxon Petroleum Co., 

 £50,000 ; and Lord Cowdray and the Hon. Clive 

 Pearson between them £50,000, making the 

 total of £200,000 which is required. Mr. 

 Dcterding, who has taken very great interest 

 in the scheme from the beginning, has offered 

 to make the £200,000 into guineas by adding 

 a personal contribution of his own of £10,000." 



The University of Cincinnati has estab- 

 lished in its college of medicine a department 

 in industrial medicine and public health. 

 Under the plans submitted, $100,000 is to be 

 raised by the citizens' committee on finance, 

 for the support of this department for five 

 years. The course will be started in October 

 and will be open to graduates in medicine. A 

 portion of the instruction will be given at the 

 college and part at various industrial estab- 

 lishments along the lines now practised in the 

 cooperative course. 



The Washington University School of Modi- 

 cine, St. Louis, has been tendered the sum of 

 $150,000 by the General Education Board on 

 condition that an equal amount be raised by 

 subscription. This fund of $300,000 is to be 

 used for the endowment of the department of 

 pharmacology. 



The board of trustees of the University of 

 Tennessee voted $100,000 to the medical school 

 to be used for a new laboratory building to be 

 erected in the rear of the Memphis City Hos- 

 pital. The new building will have laboratories 

 for pathology, bacteriology, chemistry and 

 physiology. 



Dr. Edsox Sumjerlaxd Bastin, of the 

 United States Geological Survey, has been ap- 

 pointed to a professorship of economic geol- 

 ogy in the University of Chicago beginning 

 on January 1, 1920. 



William Walter Cort, A.B. (Colorado, 

 '09), Ph.D. (Hlinois. '14), who is at present 

 on the staff of the University of California, 

 and consulting helminthologist of the Cali- 

 fornia State Board of Health, has been ap- 

 pointed associate in helminthology in the 

 school of hygiene and public health, Johns 

 Hopkins University. His work in Baltimore 

 will begin in the fall. 



Recent changes in personnel at the North 

 Carolina State College of Agriculture and 

 Engineering include tlie resignation of Pro- 

 fessor C. L. Newman, head of the department 

 of agronomy, Dr. G. A. Roberts, head of the 

 department of veterinary medicine, and Dr. 

 F. A. Wolf, head of the department of botany. 

 Professor Newman is connected with the Fed- 



