June 18, 1915] 



SCIENCE 



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since 1875 and is retiring under the terms of 

 the Carnegie Foundation. Among the speak- 

 ers at the dinner were Drs. Walther Riddle, 

 Albert E. Frost, E. B. Carnahan and J. H. 

 James, and Professor Alexander Silverman. 

 As an expression of their hig-h regard for his 

 devotion to the University of Pittsburgh, the 

 old students of Dr. Phillips presented him 

 with a check for $1,000. 



Dr. a. F. Blakeslee, professor of botany 

 and genetics at the Connecticut Agricultural 

 College, Storrs, Conn., has accepted the posi- 

 tion of plant geneticist on the staii of the Car- 

 negie Station for Experimental Evolution of 

 the Carnegie Institution. His address after 

 October 1 will be Cold Spring Harbor, Long 

 Island. 



Dr. Allan J. McLaughlin, commissioner 

 of health, has established in Boston a new 

 department to be known as the division of 

 hygiene and has appointed Professor Selskar 

 M. Gunn of the Massachusetts Institute of 

 Technology and Simmons College as its chief. 

 Some of the duties of the division will consist 

 in directing child welfare work, public health 

 nursing, promoting traveling exhibits, public 

 lectures and distributing health bulletins and 

 pamphlets. 



Dr. Matthias Nicoll, Jr., has been ap- 

 pointed assistant director of laboratories of 

 the Department of Health, New York City. 



Dr. Samuel H. Huewitz (M.D., Johns Hop- 

 kins, '12), formerly of the Harvard Medical 

 School, has been appointed instructor in re- 

 search medicine in the George Williams 

 Hooper Foundation for medical research of 

 the University of California. 



Herbert E. Cox is leaving the U. S. Depart- 

 ment of Agriculture to become an associate 

 editor of The Country Oentleman, with head- 

 quarters in Philadelphia. 



The Cancer Eesearch Institute connected 

 with the Charite Hospital at Berlin has been 

 placed in charge of Professor F. Blumenthal, 

 formerly Leyden's assistant, during Professor 

 Klemperer's absence at the front. 



Mr. J. E. CuLLUM has retired from his 

 position as superintendent of the Valencia 



Meteorological Observatory, Cahirciveen, and 

 the Meteorological Office has appointed Mr. 

 L. H. G. Dines as his successor. 



Herbert M. Wilson, engineer in charge of 

 the Pittsburgh Experiment Station of the 

 United States Bureau of Mines, has resigned 

 from the government service to become the di- 

 rector of a newly-formed organization to be 

 known as the Coal Mine Insurance Associa- 

 tion. Mr. Wilson was closely associated with 

 Director Joseph A. Holmes in the inception 

 and development of the Bureau of Mines. 

 Early in 1907, when Secretary James E. Gar- 

 field added a technologic branch to the United 

 States Geological Survey, Director Charles 

 D. Walcott, of the survey, selected Joseph A. 

 Holmes as chief of the new division and Mr. 

 Wilson was appointed as his principal assist- 

 ant. With the creation of the Bureau of 

 Mines, Mr. Wilson became engineer in charge 

 of the Pittsburgh station, a position which he 

 has held ever since. The Coal Mine Insurance 

 Association is a combination of ten American 

 and British insurance companies that have 

 associated themselves for the joint underwrit- 

 ing of coal-mine accident insurance. 



UNIVESSITT AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS 



Two anonymous gifts of $150,000 and $100,- 

 000 have been made to the Massachusetts Insti- 

 tute of Technology for dormitories. Funds 

 with which to construct the mining building, 

 some $225,000, have been offered to the insti- 

 tute by Charles Hayden, '90, of Boston, and T. 

 Coleman du Pont, '83, and S. Pierre du Pont, 

 '90, of Wilmington, Del., past and present presi- 

 dents of the du Pont de ISTemours Powder Co. 

 Coleman du Pont, it will be remembered, with 

 his gift of $500,000, made the purchase of the 

 Technology site in Cambridge possible. 

 Charles A. Stone, '88, and Edwin S. Webster, 

 '88, of Boston, will provide a residence for 

 the president. 



Mr. John E. Llndgren, of Chicago, has be- 

 queathed half his estate, valued at $1,050,000 

 to Northwestern University, subject to certain 

 life annuities. 



