April 9, 1915] 



SCIENCE 



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held, and papers bearing on matters of geo- 

 logic interest will be presented. The mem- 

 bership includes the following : F. W. Simonds, 

 J. A. Udden, P. L. WHtney, C. L. Baker, H. 

 P. Bybee, D. J. Jones, W. F. Henneger and 

 Alexander Deussen. 



It is stated in Nature that the com- 

 mittee of users of dyes appointed to con- 

 fer with the British Board of Trade as 

 to a national dye scheme has come to a unan- 

 imous decision in favor of the adoption of a 

 scheme which difEers in certain important re- 

 spects from those of the scheme previously 

 made public. The proposal is to form a com- 

 pany with an initial share capital of £2,000,- 

 000, of which £1,000,000 will be issued in the 

 ■first instance. The government will make to 

 the company a loan for twenty-five years cor- 

 responding to the amount of share capital sub- 

 scribed up to a total of £1,000,000, and a 

 smaller proportion beyond that total. The 

 government advance will bear interest at 4 per 

 cent, per annum, payable only out of net 

 profits, the interest to be cumulative only after 

 the first five years. In addition, and with the 

 desire of promoting research, the government 

 has undertaken for a period of ten years to 

 make a grant to the company for the purposes 

 of experimental and laboratory work up to an 

 amount not exceeding in the aggregate £100,- 

 000. 



UNIVESSITT AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS 

 Under the will of the late General Charles 

 H. Pine, recently published, Tale College will 

 eventually receive an addition of $150,000 to 

 the $50,000 scholarship fund established by 

 General Pine about three years ago. The will 

 also provides for the creation of a fund of 

 $250,000 to be devoted to manual training of 

 Ansonia boys and girls. 



By the will of General William D. Gill, of 

 Baltimore, the Johns Hopkins University is 

 made residuary legatee after the death of his 

 wife. The bequest is to be used for the estab- 

 lishment of a chair of forestry. 



Among the gifts recently received by Har- 

 vard University is one from Mrs. Samuel 

 Sachs, of $2,500 for the purchase of a work 



or works of art for the Fogg Art Museum, 

 and one of $3,005 from various donors for the 

 Arnold Arboretum. 



The sum of $25,000 has been contributed by 

 Mr. P. S. du Pont toward the University of 

 Pennsylvania Museum extension building fund, 

 which now amounts to more than $100,000. As 

 soon as the fund amounts to half a million 

 dollars, the building of the next extension wiU 

 be started. 



Professor John A. Miller, director of the 

 Sproul Observatory of Swarthmore College, 

 has recently been elected vice-president of the 



Dr. Rudolf Hober has been appointed to 

 the chair of physiology at Kiel vacant by the 

 removal of Professor A. Bethe to Frankfort. 



DISCUSSION AND COBSESPONDENCE 

 ON THE PROPOSED REORGANIZATION OP DEPART- 

 MENTS OF CLINICAL MEDICINE IN THE 

 UNITED STATES 



To THE Editor of Science: Although Dr. 

 Bevan's letter, published in Science in answer 

 to Dr. Meltzer's, warns college presidents, lay- 

 men and university professors who are heads 

 of laboratories to await patiently the findings 

 of committee, consisting largely of practising 

 clinicians, which is now considering the sub- 

 ject of the reorganization of the teaching of 

 clinical medicine, yet in spite of the implied 

 preemption of the subject it seems possible 

 that even a university professor may be al- 

 lowed to express his views. 



For many years scientific work has been ac- 

 complished in this country in laboratories as- 

 sociated with the medical sciences, work which 

 has received world-wide recognition. In other 

 instances, clinicians have associated themselves 

 with laboratory men, and have produced re- 

 sults which are known in the great foreign 

 clinics. One might refer to the work of Cole- 

 man, of Joslin and of Howland as examples. 

 This represents the cooperation of the labora- 

 tory and the hospital which has yielded and is 

 yielding valuable results. There can be no 

 question of the value of sympathetic and 

 friendly cooperation of this sort. 



The third stage, that of independent re- 



