April 20, 1917] 



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a popular scientific program on Friday evening, 

 and a conference on Satuiday afternoon with 

 teachers in Brooklyn schools to consider how 

 the Botanic Garden may become most useful 

 to the schools in connection with their teach- 

 ing of botany, nature study and geography. 

 About fifty papers have been offered for the 

 scientific programs. The principal address 

 on Thursday evening was delivered by Pro- 

 fessor John M. Coulter. 



The D. O. Mills Expedition to the Southern 

 Hemisphere, sent from the Lick Observatory 

 and maintained at Santiago, Chile, for a num- 

 ber of years past by recurring gifts from the 

 late D. O. Mills and Mr. Ogden Mills, is now 

 to be continued for another five years, sub- 

 scriptions for this purpose of one thousand dol- 

 lars per annum each having been made for five 

 years by Mr. Ogden Mills, Mr. William H. 

 Crocker, Mr. F. W. Bradley, Mr. A. B. 

 Spreckles and Mrs. William H. Crocker, and 

 of one thousand dollars each for 1917-18 by 

 Mr. W. B. Bourn and Mr. Gordon Blanding. 



We learn from Nature that the agricultural 

 institute of Alnarp proposes to devote a plot of 

 its land and about £4,000 to the erection of a 

 building for studies in heredity, under the di- 

 rection of H. Nilsson-Ehle, the recently ap- 

 pointed professor at Lund. It will also pro- 

 vide a maintenance grant of £200 per annum. 

 It is felt that such studies are of the greatest 

 importance at this time, when Sweden is 

 thrown on its own resources in the matter of 

 food production, and the institute is convinced 

 that any material sacrifices it may make for 

 this purpose will be more than repaid by the 

 economic results of the research, on which the 

 institute will naturally have the first claim. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL 

 NEWS 



The new laboratory for chemistry at the 

 University of Cincinnati was opened on April 

 7. The ceremonies took place at McMicken 

 Hall, Judge Eufus B. Smith presiding. Mr. 

 Emil Pollak made the formal presentation of 

 the building. Dr. Lauder W. Jones replied on 

 behalf of the department of chemistry. Dr. 



John Uri Lloyd on behalf of the American 

 Chemical Society. The main address was 

 made by Dr. Chas. E. Herty, who spoke on 

 " The Swing of the Pendulum in Chemistry." 

 A dinner, arranged by the Cincinnati Section 

 of the American Chemical Society, was given 

 at the Gibson. 



The valuable engineering library of the late 

 Eobert Gillhan, of Kansas City, Mo., has been 

 donated by his sister-in-law, Mrs. Albert 

 Marty, to Drury College, Springfield, Mo. 

 Among the collection of books are complete 

 files of the chief engineering journals of 

 America, handsomely bound in three-quarter 

 Russian. 



Several teaching fellowships in anatomy 

 (including histology and embryology) and 

 physiology (including physiological chemistry) 

 have been authorized in the University of 

 Minnesota, Minneapolis. These fellowships 

 are renewable for a three years' term, with 

 successive annual stipends of $500, $600 and 

 $700, and lead to the degrees of M.A. and 

 Ph.D. in the graduate school. 



The trustees of Toledo University in spe- 

 cial meeting on April 10 refused to accept the 

 resignation of Professor Scott Hearing, dean 

 of arts and sciences, formerly of the University 

 of Pennsylvania. 



The necessary alterations have been made 

 to enable the department of anatomy at Uni- 

 versity College, London, to be opened for the 

 reception of women medical students next 

 October. 



The George Washington University Med- 

 ical Society, composed of the alumni and fac- 

 ulty of the medical school, at a recent meeting 

 elected Dr. W. Ashby Frankland, president; 

 Dr. Coursen B. Conklin, vice-president; Dr. 

 Thomas Miller, secretary, and Dr. Edward 

 G. Seibert, treasurer. 



Dr. William Duane, physics, and Dr. Walter 

 F. Dearborn, psychology, have been promoted 

 to full professorships in Harvard University. 



Donald Feaser MoLeod, assistant professor 

 of civil engineering at the University of Mis- 



