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vin, fellow in research medicine. University of 

 Pennsylvania; nurses, Mrs. M. E. Spry, long 

 cliief clinic nurse of University Hospital ; Miss 

 Jackson and Miss Wagner; anesthetist, Miss 

 Frazer. Explaining the undertaking and its 

 purpose, Dr. White said : " In the early winter 

 the executive committee of the American Am- 

 bulance Hospital decided, in the interests of 

 medical science and teaching, and for the pur- 

 pose of increasing the eiSciency of the hospital 

 in the case of large numbers of wounded, to 

 invite certain American universities to send 

 staffs from their respective medical schools to 

 take charge of a floor of 150 beds for periods 

 of three months each. The Western Reserve 

 University took the term of January, February 

 and March; Harvard, April, May and June, 

 and is now on duty. Pennsylvania accepted 

 for the earliest period she could obtain, viz., 

 July, August and September. The other in- 

 stitutions invited were Johns Hopkins and the 

 University of Chicago, which are expected to 

 follow in the order named. 



VNIVEMSITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS 



The Circuit Court of St. Louis has con- 

 firmed the will of James Campbell, who left 

 his entire estate to St. Louis University School 

 of Medicine subject to a life tenure of his wife 

 and daughter. His estate is valued at from six 

 to ten million dollars. 



The late Ward N. Hunt, of Needham, Mass., 

 has made Dartmouth College residuary legatee 

 for $20,000, to establish scholarship funds to 

 be known as the Hunt scholarships. 



It is stated in Nature that the Hutchinson 

 Museum has been acquired by the Medical 

 School of the Johns Hopkins University. The 

 collection comprises original colored drawings ; 

 colored plates taken from atlases, books and 

 memoirs; engravings, woodcuts, photographs 

 and pencil sketches, in some cases with the 

 letterpress or manuscript notes attached. The 

 collection illustrates the whole range of medi- 

 cine and surgery, but particularly syphilis and 

 skin diseases. 



Sir Joseph Jonas has given the University 

 of Sheffield £5,000 to found a laboratory in 

 connection with the applied science depart- 

 ment, for testing metals and minerals, espe- 



cially those involved in the production of steel. 



Dr. Henry Suzallo, professor of the philos- 

 ophy of education in Teachers College, Colum- 

 bia University, has been elected president of 

 the University of Washington. 



Dr. Hermon C. Bumpus, formerly professor 

 of zoology of Brown University and director 

 of the Museum of Natural History, will be in- 

 stalled as president of Tufts College on June 

 12. 



At the University of Oklahoma, Professor 

 F. C. Kent has resigned, and Dr. H. C. Gos- 

 sard has been appointed instructor in mathe- 

 matics. 



Dr. Mover S. Fleisher, who has been assist- 

 ant in the department of pathology of the St. 

 Louis Barnard Free Skin and Cancer Hospital, 

 has been made assistant professor of bacteriol- 

 ogy in the St. Louis University School of 

 Medicine. 



Dr. Samuel H. Horwitz has been appointed 

 instructor in research medicine in the Hooper 

 Foundation for Medical Research of the Uni- 

 versity of California, San Francisco. 



DISCUSSION AND COBBESPONDENCE 



ZOOLOGISTS, TEACHERS AND WILD LIFE 

 CONSERVATION 



To THE Editor of Science: In spite of 

 the fact that we are familiar with the idea 

 of historic cycles, it is a constant surprise, 

 in watching advances in thought and action, 

 to see that they are usually made not only 

 without the cooperation, but often even with 

 the opposition of those vitally concerned. 

 This is true not only of the prophets of na- 

 tional defense, but is equally so of the protec- 

 tion and conservation of wild life. Strange as 

 it may seem, the most experienced and best 

 informed leader of this movement in this 

 country states that the very people from whom 

 every one should naturally expect the heartiest 

 support — the professional zoologists and teach- 

 ers of zoology — have been practically a negli- 

 gible quantity in this defensive and construc- 

 tive movement. Why is this true? There ap- 

 pears to be some fundamental weakness in this 

 position. Can a factor in the problem be that 

 we have become so engrossed in important 



