SCIENCE 



[N. S. Vol. XLI. No. 1068 



By unanimous vote of the ten members pres- 

 ent, the board of regents of the University of 

 Minnesota adopted on June 10, the report of 

 the sub-committee for the establishment of 

 courses in graduate medical instruction at 

 Eoehester, Minn., in connection with the Mayo 

 ^Foundation for Medical Education and Re- 

 search, as printed in last week's issue of Sci- 

 ence. 



The sum of $30,000 has been given to Dal- 

 housie University, Halifax, N. S., toward the 

 endowment of a chair of anatomy, and an- 

 nouncement is made that in the near future 

 the sum will be 'doubled. 



Messes. G. A. and H. H. Wills have made 

 an additional gift of £40,000 to the University 

 of Bristol. Originally they gave £180,000 for 

 the purpose of erecting additional buildings, 

 but as the accepted tender exceeds that amount, 

 they have now added £40,000. 



The department of geology of the Univer- 

 sity of Oregon will next year occupy new 

 quarters in the large new administration 

 building just completed. These quarters in- 

 clude a museum, a small classroom, a large 

 laboratory in the basement, and an office, with 

 probably an extra room for grinding apparatus, 

 etc. The large general classes will be held in 

 the new theater which is located in the same 

 building. The geological laboratory is being 

 equipped with a large new relief map of the 

 state made by the Oregon Bureau of Mines 

 and Geology and a set of Shaler-Davis physio- 

 graphic models, besides other equipment. 



Dr. Hermon Carey Bumpus was installed 

 as president of Tufts College on June 12. The 

 speakers included President Lawrence A. 

 Lowell, of Harvard University; Dr. Charles E. 

 Pay, senior professor of the faculty of arts and 

 sciences ; Dean Charles F. Painter, of the Med- 

 ical and Dental Schools, and Dr. Samuel P. 

 Capen, of the United States Department of 

 Education, president of the Tufts College 

 Alumni Association. The inaugural address 

 of President Bumpus was then given. 



Dr. John Casper Beanner, who, when he 

 assumed the presidency of Stanford Univer- 

 sity in 1913, announced that he would hold the 

 office for only two years, and who recently 



made this announcement effective by tender- 

 ing his official resignation, has been persuaded 

 by the board of trustees to continue in the 

 office for another year. Dr. Branner reaches 

 the retiring age of sixty-five this coming July. 



Dr. Kenneth L. Maek, associate professor 

 of chemistry at Simmons College, Boston, has 

 been placed in charge of the department of 

 chemistry to fill the vacancy caused by the 

 resignation of Professor J. F. iN'orris. 



Professoe John Phelan, of the University 

 of Wisconsin, has been elected professor of 

 rural sociology in the Massachusetts Agricul- 

 tural College. 



Dr. William M. Smith, professor of mathe- 

 matics in the University of Oregon, has been 

 elected to succeed the late Professor J. J. 

 Hardy at Lafayette College. 



The following changes have been made in 

 the department of biology at Vassar College: 

 Miss Cora Jipson Beekwith, assistant professor 

 of zoology, promoted to associate professor of 

 zoology; Miss Virginia Langworthy has been 

 appointed assistant in botany, and Miss 

 Alvalyn Woodward assistant in zoology. 



At the University of Kansas, the following 

 promotions have been announced: Assistant 

 Professor Charles A. Shull to associate pro- 

 fessor of plant physiology and genetics ; Assist- 

 ant Professor U. G. Mitchell to associate pro- 

 fessor of mathematics; Associate Professor 

 C. H. Ashton to professor of mathematics; 

 Associate Professor A. J. Boynton to professor 

 of economics ; Assistant Professor A. H. Sluss 

 to associate professor of mechanical engi- 

 neering. 



Donald Bruce, formerly supervisor of the 

 Flathead National Forest at Kalispell, Mon- 

 tana, has been appointed assistant professor of 

 forestry in the University of California. 



Among new appointments in the University 

 of California Medical School are those of Dr. 

 A. W. Johnson as instructor in laryngology, 

 otology and rhinology; Dr. Olga Louise 

 Bridgman as instructor in pediatrics and men- 

 tal abnormalities of childhood, and Drs. Alfred 

 E. Meyers, Howard E. Euggles and Vivia 

 Belle Appleton, instructors in pediatrics. 



