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SCIENCE 



[N. S. Vol. XLI. No. 1066 



George C. Warren, president, Warren Brothers 

 Company. 



VNIVEESITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS 



Dr. Luthee Dana Wateeman, of Indian- 

 apolis, professor emeritus in tlie Indiana 

 University School of Medicine, has made a 

 gift to Indiana University am.ounting to one 

 hundred thousand dollars, subject to an 

 annuity during his life time on the condition 

 that the university appropriate an amount 

 equal to the income from this gift, the entire 

 proceeds to be used for scientific research. 

 The conditions and gift have been accepted by 

 the trustees of the university. 



Albert Bonnheim, of Sacramento, has given 

 to the University of California an endowment 

 of $30,000 with provision for its subsequent 

 increase to $160,000, the income to be devoted 

 to the maintenance of scholarships. 



Another gift of $85,000 has been made for 

 the erection of dormitories at Cornell Univer- 

 sity. This gift comes from the same anony- 

 mous contributor of $250,000 some time ago. 

 Two dormitories under construction are ex- 

 pected to be ready for occupation by Septem- 

 ber 1. 



Dr. Henet Albeet Mattill, who recently 

 resigned his chair in the University of Utah, 

 has been appointed assistant professor of nu- 

 trition in the University of California. 



J. Beownlee Davidson, of Iowa Agricul- 

 tural College, has been called to the Univer- 

 sity of California to fill a newly established 

 professorship of agricultural engineering. 

 His special work is to be to develop at the 

 University Farm at Davis a testing plant for 

 investigation of the fundamental reasons for 

 efiiciency of farm machinery. 



Howard Spencee Heed, now professor of 

 plant pathology and bacteriology in the Vir- 

 ginia Polytechnic Institute, has been appointed 

 professor of plant physiology in the Citrus Ex- 

 periment Station and Graduate School of 

 Tropical Agriculture, recently established by 

 the University of California at Riverside, 

 California. 



The following appointments and promotions 

 in the Stanford University Medical School 



have been made for the year 1915-16: Dr. 

 Charles Harvey Bailey, formerly connected 

 with the Crocker Research Laboratory, New 

 York City, has been made assistant professor 

 of pathology. Dr. Henry Augustus Stephen- 

 son, formerly assistant in obstetrics and 

 gynecology in the Johns Hopkins Medical 

 School, has been made assistant professor of 

 obstetrics and gynecology. Dr. George De 

 Forest Barnett (M.D., Stanford, '13) and Dr. 

 Jean Redman Oliver (M.D., Stanford, '14) 

 have been made instructor in medicine and 

 instructor in pathology, respectively. 



The following appointments were made at 

 the last meeting of the executive committee of 

 the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 

 the resignations of E. H. Magoon, assistant in 

 civil engineering and Thomas Buel, research 

 assistant in electrical engineering, being ac- 

 cepted. Dr. Barnum B. Libby and George 

 Rutledge, instructors in mathematics; Clark 

 S. Robinson and Clifton 'N. Jacobs, instructors 

 in inorganic chemistry; Francis C. Atwood 

 and Roscoe G. Dickinson, assistants in theo- 

 retical chemistry; John N. Dalton, assistant 

 in organic chemistry; Charles H. Rosenthal, 

 Robert V. Townsend and Donald A. White, re- 

 search assistants in applied chemistry, and R. 

 J. Wiseman and Albert C. Brown, research 

 assistants in electrical engineering. 



Dr. Cornelius Betten has resigned the pro- 

 fessorship of biology in Lake Forest College 

 to become secretary of the College of Agricul- 

 ture in Cornell University. 



Howard B. Lewis, Ph.D., instructor in 

 physiological chemistry at the University of 

 Pennsylvania, has been appointed an associate 

 professor in the University of Illinois. 



Messrs. F. T. Brooks, Emmanuel College, 

 and R. H. Compton, Gonville and Caius Col- 

 lege, have been appointed demonstrators of 

 botany at Cambridge. 



Dr. J. Sholto C. Douglas, lecturer on 

 pathology in the University of Manchester, 

 has been appointed to the Joseph Hunter chair 

 of pathology in the University of Shefiield in 

 succession to Professor Dean. 



