Mabch 26, 1915] 



SCIENCE 



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central office in London, while the members of 

 the International Commission on Zoological 

 Nomenclature still record their votes without 

 distinction of country. The British govern- 

 ment also permits a limited import of scientific 

 books from Germany and Austria. 



A CABLEGRAM to the daily papers was quoted 

 in the issue of Science of December 25, to the 

 effect that the trained horses of Elberfeld had 

 been requisitioned for an artillery battery and 

 that they had been killed on the battlefield in 

 Manders. Fortunately this report has proved 

 to he untrue. According to the Franhfurier 

 Zeitung of January 22, Herr Krall, the owner 

 of the horses, has written to that paper to the 

 effect that they are safe and well in the hands 

 of a competent horseman, although the experi- 

 ments upon them are in abeyance during the 

 war. 



Sir Charles A. Parsons, the distinguished 

 engineer, has given £5,000 to the Royal Insti- 

 tution, London, for the general purposes of 

 the institution. 



The thirty-seventh annual meeting of the 

 American Library Association will be held at 

 Berkeley, Calif., on June 30. 



The eighth annual meeting of the American 

 School Hygiene Association will take place in 

 the city of San Francisco, June 25—26, 1915. 

 Arrangements for this meeting are being made 

 through the organization committee of which 

 Professor Lewis M. Terman, Stanford Univer- 

 sity, Stanford, Calif., is chairman. Professor 

 Terman is also chairman of the program com- 

 mittee. The influence of the American School 

 Hygiene Association was very largely re- 

 sponsible for the great success of the Fourth 

 International Congress on School Hygiene 

 which was held in the city of Buffalo in the 

 summer of 1913. It is hoped that the general 

 interest stimulated by this International Con- 

 gress may be productive of a large and an ef- 

 fective meeting in San Francisco. 



univehsixy and educational news 



We have received the following telegram 

 signed by five professors of the University of 

 Utah: 



" Fourteen members of the University of 

 Utah faculty have resigned — Cummings, dean 

 of art and science ; Holman, dean of law school ; 

 six department heads — Roylance, history; 

 Ebaugh, chemistry; Vorhies, biology; MattiU, 

 physiology and physiological chemistry; Pet- 

 erson, psychology, and six others — Butler and 

 Blood, English; Sharp, histology; Hedger, 

 registrar; Stephens, law; Thiel, German. Of 

 the eleven members of the American Associa- 

 tion for the Advancement of Science in the 

 University of Utah, but three remain. The 

 iimmediate cause is the recent dismissal of 

 Knowlton, in physics, Wise, in German, and 

 Bing and Snow, in English, and the demotion 

 of Professor Marshall, for twenty-three years 

 head of the English department and Reynolds, 

 professor of English. For specious and fluctu- 

 ating reason, without heed to petition from 

 students, faculty, alumni and others, the 

 president refuses an investigation and has 

 been upheld by the board of regents. This is 

 the culmination of a policy of repression that 

 has been growing steadily in the past two 

 or three years, resulting in an entire lack of 

 mutual confidence. We believe this should be 

 known at once for the safeguarding of our 

 successors in the profession. They should 

 come only with their eyes open." 



The dedication of the new Julius Rosen- 

 wald Hall in connection with the ninety- 

 fourth convocation of the University of Chi- 

 cago was held on the morning of March 16. 

 The program included addresses by President 

 Harry Pratt Judson, Professor RoUin D. Sal- 

 isbury, head of the department of geography 

 and dean of the Ogden Graduate School of 

 Science; Professor Thomas Chrowder Cham- 

 berlin, head of the department of geology, and 

 seven alumni of the university who took their 

 degrees in the departments which will use the 

 new building: Eliot Blackwelder, A.B., '01, 

 Ph.D., '14, professor of geology, the Univer- 

 sity of Wisconsin ; Frank Walbridge De Wolf, 

 S.B., '03, director of the State Geological Sur- 

 vey of Illinois; William Harvey Emmons, 

 Ph.D., 1904, professor of mineralogy and geol- 

 ogy, the University of Minnesota, director of 



