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SCIENCE 



[N. S. Vol. XLI. No. 1061 



Commerce, and the other industrial and tech- 

 nical investigations and experiments which 

 have been carried on by the Forest Service in 

 the last two years, were discussed at a confer- 

 ence of Forest Service officials at Madison, 

 Wis., on April 14 to 17. The Forest Service 

 Laboratory, the Washington Office of Indus- 

 trial Investigations, and each of the seven Na- 

 tional Forest Districts were represented at the 

 conference by specialists. Among the sub- 

 jects discussed were : Cooperation of the Forest 

 Service with industries, lumber distribution in 

 the United States, utilization of low-grade 

 lumber and mill waste, adaptation of manu- 

 facturing and grading to specific classes of 

 consumers, unification and standardization of 

 lumber grades, study and development of gen- 

 eral markets for National Forest timber, mill 

 scale studies, including technical methods, 

 tallying, etc. ; lumber depreciation and the col- 

 lection and compilation of lumber price data. 



VNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS 



Appropriations for two new buildings to 

 meet the needs of the University of Ohio and 

 for additional tracts of farm land west of the 

 Olentangy have been voted through the finance 

 committee of the lower branch of the legis- 

 lature. These extensions would involve an ex- 

 penditure of $340,000. A domestic-science 

 building to cost $150,000 and a shop building 

 for manual training to cost $120,000 are pro- 

 vided. Ninety acres of land would be pur- 

 chased west of the Olentangy Eiver at a prob- 

 able cost of $70,000. 



The department of geology of Oberlin Col- 

 lege is to move soon from the old building to 

 a modern home in the science quadrangle. 

 The museum has recently added much valu- 

 able data, including a collection of paleozoic 

 fossils carefully worked over, identified and 

 labeled; a collection of gold and silver, lead, 

 bismuth and other ores from Utah and Idaho; 

 a considerable number of topographic coast 

 survey and other maps, and a large collection 

 of waU pictures. 



Professor C.-E. A. Winslow has been ap- 

 pointed to the newly established Anna M. L. 



Lauder professorship of public health at the 

 Tale Medical School. He will give up his 

 connection with the New York State Depart- 

 ment of Health and the Teachers' College to 

 take up this work next fall, but will continue 

 to act as curator of public health at the Amer- 

 ican Museum of Natural History. 



Professor James F. Norris, head of the 

 chemistry department and of the department 

 of general science of Simmons College, Boston, 

 has accepted the position of professor of 

 chemistry and director of the chemistry labo- 

 ratories of Vanderbilt University, Nashville, 

 Tenn. 



At the Massachusetts Institute of Technol- 

 ogy Associate Professor Henry G. Pearson is 

 advanced to the grade of professor of English 

 and he will be placed in charge of the depart- 

 ment on the retirement of Professor Arlo 

 Bates at the end of the present academic year. 

 The following assistant professors are ad- 

 vanced to the grade of associate professor in 

 their respective departments: Dr. Eobert F. 

 Bigelow, zoology and parasitology; W. Felton 

 Brown, freehand drawing; Harold A. Everett, 

 naval architecture and H. E. Kurrelmeyer, 

 German. Instructor Henry B. Phillips is ad- 

 vanced to assistant professor of mathematics, 

 and assistant instructors K. C. Eobinson and 

 John E. Bird are advanced to the grade of in- 

 structor in mechanical drawing. Miss Ruth 

 M. Thomas, research assistant in organic 

 chemistry, is advanced to research associate in 

 the same department. The title of Professor 

 A. E. Kennelly is changed from chairman to 

 director of the research division of the depart- 

 ment of electrical engineering. 



Mr. W. L. Mollison has been elected master 

 of Clare College, Cambridge, in succession to 

 the late Dr. E. Atkinson. ■ He was second 

 wrangler in the mathematical tripos of 1876, 

 and was elected a fellow of Clare in that year. 



DISCUSSION AND COBEESPONDENCE 



THE PRESENTATION OP THE FUNDAMENTAL CON- 

 CEPTIONS OP MECHANICS 



The recent discussion in Science of the 

 fundamental equation in mechanics has sug- 



