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scientific, social and benevolent and not com- 

 mercial. In addition to the medical labora- 

 tory, other activities for health, conservation 

 will be inaugurated. The secretary of the 

 foundation is Dr. Daniel Morton, St. Joseph, 

 and the members of the board of control are 

 prominent citizens of St. Joseph and the 

 state. 



From the annual statement of the British 

 board of trade Nature prints figures for 1913 

 of imports of scientific instruments and appa- 

 ratus, as follows: 



Scientific Instruments and Apparatus (other than 

 Electrical) Complete 



£ 



Total imports 710,341 



Of whieh from Germany 362,891 



Belgium 28,939 



France 108,040 



Switzerland 19,872 



U. S. A 182,293 



Parts thereof (including Kinematograph Films, 

 Photographic Plates and Films, and Sensi- 

 tized Photographic Paper) 



£ 



Total imports •. . . . 2,373,426 



■Of which from Germany 310,229 



Belgium 126,725 



Prance 522,682 



Switzerland 28,762 



Italy 121,842 



U. S. A 1,256,311 



It thus appears that the imports from the 

 United States exceed those from France and 

 Germany combined. It may be expected that 

 hereafter the imports of scientific apparatus 

 (of which, however, photographic supplies are 

 a considerable part) from the United States 

 will exceed those from all other countries 

 combined. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS 

 The Thomas W. Evans Museum and Dental 

 Institute, School of Dentistry, the University 

 of Pennsylvania, will be dedicated on Febru- 

 ary 22 and 23. On the afternoon of February 

 22 the presentation and formal opening of the 

 building will take place and addresses will be 

 made as follows: 



Dr. Charles Gordon, of Paris, France. 

 Dr. Wilhelm Dieek, of Berlin, Germany. 



Mr. John Howard Mummey, M.E.C.S., L.D.S., 

 of London, England. 



Dr. William Simon, of the Baltimore College of 

 Dental Surgery 



Dr. Edward C. Kirk, dean of the Thomas W. 

 Evans Museum and Dental Institute School of 

 Dentistry, University of Pennsylvania. 



The new building of the Mellon Institute 

 of Industrial Research of the University of 

 Pittsburgh, will be dedicated on the morning 

 of February 26. The principal address will be 

 made by Dr. Eossiter W. Raymond. In the 

 evening Professor John J. Abel, of Johns 

 Hopkins University, will deliver the first 

 Mellon Lecture under the auspices of the 

 Society for Biological Research of the Univer- 

 sity of Pittsburgh. The subject of the lec- 

 ture will be " Experimental and Chemical 

 Studies of the Blood and Their Bearing on 

 Medicine." 



Dr. Karl T. Compton, instructor in physics 

 at Reed College, Portland, Oregon, will go to 

 Princeton University next fall as assistant 

 professor of physics. Dr. Compton received 

 the degree of Ph.D. at Princeton in 1912. 



Two new members have been recently added 

 to the faculty of the New York State College 

 of Forestry. Mr. G. A. Gutches, formerly in 

 the U. S. National Forest Service, later dis- 

 trict forest inspector of Saskatchewan, Canada, 

 becomes director of the New York State 

 Ranger School at Wanakena, N. Y. Mr. H. H. 

 Tryon, formerly forest engineer, becomes in- 

 structor in forest utilization. This makes 

 eight new appointments to the faculty of the 

 New York State College of Forestry within 

 the past year. The appointment of Dr. C. C. 

 Adams as assistant professor of forest zoology 

 was noted in Science of June, 1914. The other 

 recent appointments are as follows : Dr. J. 

 Fred Baker, formerly professor of forestry in 

 Michigan Agricultural College, as professor 

 of experimental forestry; Dr. L. H. Penning- 

 ton, formerly associate professor of botany in 

 Syracuse University, as professor of forest 

 pathology; Dr. H. P. Brown, formerly in- 

 structor at Cornell, as assistant professor in 

 forest botany; Mr. Shirley W. Allen, formerly 

 deputy forest supervisor of the Lassen National 

 Forest, California, as assistant professor of 



