February 13, 1914] 



SCIENCE 



249 



Tones of Instruments, of Vowels and Spoken 

 Words. 



At the College of Medicine of the Univer- 

 sity of Illinois, Chicago, Drs. Bartlett, Bur- 

 meister, Davis, Dreyer, Eyeleshymer, Falls, 

 Fantus, Hartung, Miller, Moore and Welker 

 recently organized a medical research club of 

 the University of Illinois. Dr. D. J. Davis 

 was elected president, and Dr. Wm. H. Welker 

 was elected secretary for the balance of the 

 college year. Dr. Eyeleshymer presented a 

 paper entitled, " Some Observations on the 

 Decapitated Young Necturus." 



The British Medical Journal understands 

 that arrangements have nearly been completed 

 for the establishment, as a memorial to Lord 

 Lister in Edinburgh, of a Lister Institute. 

 It is proposed that the institute, which will be 

 devoted mainly to research in bacteriology and 

 pathology, shall work in connection with the 

 university, but that it shall be managed by an 

 independent board consisting of representa- 

 tives of the Royal Colleges of Physicians and 

 Surgeons, and of the university, and probably 

 of the Carnegie trustees, who have recently 

 become interested in the laboratories of the 

 Royal College of Physicians. It is intended 

 that certain facilities for teaching shall also 

 be provided. It would appear to be the inten- 

 tion that eventually all pathological work, both 

 in research and teaching, in Edinburgh shall 

 be under the general supervision of the pro- 

 fessor of pathology, who, in addition to hold- 

 ing that chair and taking an appropriate share 

 in the conduct of the new institute, will act as 

 honorary pathologist to the Royal Infirmary. 



Dr. William Kelly Simpson, professor of 

 laryngology at the College of Physicians and 

 Surgeons, Columbia University, died on Feb- 

 ruary 6, aged fifty-eight years. 



Dr. K. H. F. Rosenbusch, formerly head of 

 the geological-mineralogical laboratory at 

 Heidelberg, distinguished for his contributions 

 to mineralogy, has died at the age of seventy- 

 eight years. 



Dr. Felix Hahnschaffe, professor of geol- 

 ogy in the Berlin Mining Academy, has died 

 at the age of fifty-three years. 



The U. S. Civil Service Commission an- 

 nounces an open competitive examination for 

 assistant chief, Bureau of Chemistry, to fill a 

 vacancy in this position in the bureau of 

 chemistry, Department of Agriculture, at 

 $4,000 a year. It is desired to secure the serv- 

 ices of a man of broad training and extensive 

 practical experience in physiological chemis- 

 try and medicine as well as experience as an 

 administrative officer to assist in the research 

 and supervisory work of the bureau of chemis- 

 try, and the enforcement of the food and drugs 

 act. Applicants will not be assembled for 

 examination, but their relative qualifications 

 will be rated upon the evidence adduced as to 

 their education and training, practical experi- 

 ence and fitness, and their publications. Ap- 

 plicants must give in their applications a com- 

 plete statement of their educational training, 

 a complete statement of their practical experi- 

 ence, and a list of their publications. Copies 

 of such publications should be filed with the 

 application. An educational training includ- 

 ing an M.D. degree from a medical school of 

 recognized standing and special training in 

 analytical and physiological chemistry other 

 than that included in the medical course; and 

 not less than three years' experience as a 

 medico-legal expert, and some experience as 

 an administrative officer, are prerequisites for 

 consideration for this position. Applicants 

 must have reached their thirtieth but not 

 their forty-fifth birthday on the date of the 

 examination. 



VNIVEBSITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS 

 BowDoiN College has received a bequest of 

 $500,000 for the general fund of the college 

 from the estate of Edwin B. Smith, former 

 assistant attorney general of the United 

 States, who died in New York on January 5. 

 Yale University receives $500,000 under the 

 will of Lord Strathcona and Mount Royal, 

 who died on January 21. The Royal Victoria 

 College at Montreal, a girls' school, is given 

 $1,000,000. Lord Strathcona leaves to St. 

 John's College, Cambridge, $50,000; to the 

 University of Aberdeen, for the creation of a 

 chair of agriculture, $25,000; to the Presby- 



