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S. Strathy and Dr. L. Bruce Eobertson, 

 Toronto, and Drs. Poster and James E. Davey, 

 Hamilton. Dr. H. B. Yates, Montreal, is to 

 be second in command to Dean Herbert S. 

 Birkett of the medical faculty of McGill Uni- 

 versity and of tbe McGill University General 

 Hospital, whicb is to go to France. The other 

 officers wbo are to be appointed to the vari- 

 ous ranks are: Drs. John M. Elder, John Mc- 

 Orae, J. George Adami, W. Henry P. Hill, 

 Edward W. Archibald, A. Howard Pirie, L. J. 

 Ehea, William G. Turner, C. P. Howard, 

 Herbert M. Little, William B. Howell, Colin 

 K. Eussel, John W. Hutchinson, John C. 

 Meakins, William W. Francis, J. A. Mac- 

 Millan, E. H. M. Malone, Laurie H. McKim, 

 and Mr. David Law, all of Montreal. 



That Baltimore is gambling with the health 

 of the people and the commerce of the port 

 against the probability of an epidemic of the 

 bubonic plague and that preventive measures 

 ought to be taken to prevent a development of 

 the plague here was stated by Dr. William C. 

 Eucker, Washington, D. 0., of the U. S. Pub- 

 lic Health Service, in an address before the 

 Public Health Conference, recently held in 

 Baltimore, which is quoted in the Journal of 

 the American Medical Association. He made 

 it plain that every municipality that failed to 

 take preventive measures is likely to find itself 

 in the position of New Orleans, where the gov- 

 ernment, state and city authorities were 

 spending hundreds of thousands of dollars to 

 wipe out the bubonic plague, which might 

 have been prevented, had there been a rodent 

 survey of the city. The federal government 

 has been willing to cooperate with the city au- 

 thorities of Baltimore in making a rodent sur- 

 vey, but the city has refused to appropriate 

 any money for such a purpose, although Health 

 Commissioner Gorter has asked for such an 

 appropriation. 



New exhibits in the department of verte- 

 brate paleontology of the American Museum 

 of Natural History have recently been opened 

 to the public. The first of these is a skeleton 

 of Scelidotherium, which is a part of the 

 Cope Pampean collection secured through the 



generosity of the late Morris K. Jesup, 

 former president of the museum. This ani- 

 mal belongs to the sloth family and is inter- 

 esting anatomically in its approach to the ant- 

 eaters. Two nearly perfect skulls of horned 

 dinosaurs have been added to the reptile col- 

 lection. These are a part of the collection 

 made by the museum expedition to the Eed 

 Deer Eiver, Alberta, in 1913. The skeleton 

 of the giant carnivorous dinosaur, Tyranno- 

 saurus, is being mounted in the Pleistocene 

 hall, and the new duck-billed dinosaur, Oory- 

 thosaurus, in the dinosaur hall. 



UNIVEBSITT AND JEDUCATIONAL NEWS 



Gifts of $25,000 to Tale University were 

 announced at a meeting of the Yale Corpora- 

 tion held on February 15. Mrs. Charles W. 

 Goodyear and Anson Conger Goodyear, of 

 Buffalo, N. Y., have given $15,000 for the 

 establishment of the Charles W. Goodyear fund 

 in the Forestry School. The income of $10,000 

 from John B. Thomas, of New York, is to be 

 used for providing for lectures by men of dis- 

 tinction on " The Eeal Purpose of the College 

 Course," and kindred topics. These lectures 

 are planned primarily for the academic fresh- 

 men. 



The new science building at Goshen College 

 which is in process of construction will be dedi- 

 cated on May 27. The principal address will 

 be delivered by Dr. Eugene Davenport, dean 

 of the college of agriculture and director of 

 experimental station of the University of 

 Illinois. This event will also mark the formal 

 opening of the new departments of agriculture 

 and domestic science at Goshen College. 



The University of Oregon has just com- 

 pleted a new psychological laboratory for both 

 practise and research work. It consists of a 

 suite of nine rooms, in addition to the lecture 

 room, all of which are equipped with power 

 circuits, gas, compressed air and an intercom- 

 municating system of wires and speaking tubes. 



At Yale University, Lorande Loss Wood- 

 ruff, Ph.D. (Columbia), assistant professor in 

 the Sheffield Scientific School, has been elected 

 professor of biology in Yale College. 



