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valuable service by making pharmaceutical 

 preparations, i pharmaceutical chemicals from 

 raw materials furnished by the government, 

 and in testing the identity and purity of drugs, 

 chemicals and other medical supplies bought 

 by the government in the middle west. 



China has instituted a geological survey 

 under the direction of V. K. Zing, a graduate 

 of the University of Glasgow. 



Wii. Mason Towle, professor of industrial 

 engineering at Clarkson College of Technol- 

 ogy, Potsdam, H. T., retires from active serv- 

 ice at the close of the present academic year. 

 The trustees have appointed him professor 

 emeritus of industrial engineering. 



Mr. Francis C. Shenehon, for the past eight 

 years dean of the College of Engineering of 

 the University of Minnesota and head pro- 

 fessor of civil engineering, has opened offices 

 and will give his entire attention to his prac- 

 tise as a consulting hydraulic engineer. 



Professor C. K. Leith, of the University of 

 "Wisconsin, has recently completed a sis weeks' 

 course of lectures on " Metamorphie geology " 

 at the University of Chicago. 



Dr. Juan D. Ambrosetti, director of the 

 Ethnographic Museum at Buenos Aires, died 

 on May 28. He was a delegate to the Pan- 

 American Scientific Congress held in "Wash- 

 ington in 1915. 



Dr. F. F. Ulrik, of Copenhagen, who took 

 the leading part in the movement to provide 

 more hygienic homes for the laboring classes 

 in Denmark, has died at the age of ninety-nine 

 years. 



Arrangements have been made for meetings 

 of the Council of the British Association for 

 the Advancement of Science, the General 

 Committee and the Committee of Eecom- 

 mendations to be held in London on July 6, 

 in order to make appointments, receive the re- 

 port of the Council for the year, and transact 

 other necessary business. 



The Spanish government has appropriated 

 the sum of $600,000 for the establishment of a 

 hospital for infectious diseases at Madrid. 



At the annual general meeting of the Insti- 

 tution of Civil Engineers of Great Britain, 



held on April 17, the result of the ballot for the 

 election of officers was declared as follows: 

 President, Mr. W. B. Worthington; Vice-presi- 

 dents, Mr. J. A. F. Aspinall, Mr. H. E. Jones, 

 Sir John P. Griffith and Mr. J. A. Brodie; 

 Other Mernbers of Council, Dr. C. C. Carpen- 

 ter, Dr. Dugald Clerk, Colonel E. E. B. Cromp- 

 ton, Mr. M. Deacon, Sir Archibald D^nny, 

 Bart., Mr. W. H. Ellis, Sir E. E. Gales, Mr. A. 

 J. Goldsmith, Sir E. A. Hadfield, Brigadier- 

 General B. H. Henderson, Mr. E. "W. Holmes, 

 Professor Bertram Hopkinson, Mr. G. W. 

 Humphreys, Mr. Summers Hunter, Dr. W. H. 

 Maw, Mr. C. L. Morgan, Mr. Basil Mott, Sir 

 H. J. Oram, Mr. F. Palmer, Captain H. P. E. 

 Sankey, Sir J. F. C. Snell, Mr. E. F. C. 

 Trench, Mr. W. F. Tye, Sir Philip Watts, Mr. 

 E. J. Way and Sir A. F. Yarrow, Bart. The 

 council has made the following awards for 

 papers read and discussed during the session 

 1916-17 : Telford gold medals to Messrs. G. W. 

 Humphreys and J. B. Ball; George Stephenson 

 gold medals to Messrs. P. V. O'Brien and John 

 Parr; Telford premiimis to Messrs. P. V. 

 O'Brien, J. L. Hodgson, W. Brown and P. M. 

 Crosthwaite, and a Crampton prize to Mr. F. 

 J. Waring. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL 

 NEWS 



Announcement is made that next year a 

 course in the elements of law, will be given 

 by a professor of the law school of Columbia 

 University to a limited number of qualified 

 students of Barnard College. Certain courses 

 in international law will also be open to 

 specially qualified women. 



Beginning with next autumn the Tufts med- 

 ical school will require two years of regular col-_ 

 lege work for admission. 



We learn from the American Medical Jour- 

 nal that fellowships in ophthalmology and oto- 

 laryngology in connection with the University 

 of Minnesota have been established by Dr. 

 Frank C. Todd, of Minneapolis, and Dr. Frank 

 E. Bureh, of St. Paul, both of the school of 

 medicine. These fellowships carry with them 

 the same stipend that is paid by the University 

 of Minnesota to the university fellows, namely. 



