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SCIENCE 



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the Cancer Investigation Department of the 

 Middlesex Hospital, and the Cancer Hospital 

 for cancer investigation; £5,000 to Manchester 

 University for general purposes, and £1,000 

 for the Chinese chair; £2,000 to Blackburn 

 Grammar School for playfields, and £1,000 

 for university scholarships. 



About thirty pictures of psychologists have 

 been secured and reproduced for distribution 

 by Professor E. A. Kirkpatrick, of Fitchburg, 

 Mass., in accordance with the plan outlined 

 in this journal some months ago. 



Arrangements are in progress for a Meteor- 

 ological Congress to be held in Venice in Sep- 

 tember and to -which meteorologists of all 

 countries are to be invited. 



The Pasteur Institute of Paris has invited 

 directors of similar institutes and antirabic 

 services throughout the world to a conference 

 on hydrophobia with special reference to etiol- 

 ogy, prophylaxis, treatment and statistics. 

 The conference wiU meet in the Pasteur Insti- 

 tute April 7 to 10, 1915. 



Nature reports that the London School of 

 Tropical Medicine has sent an expedition to 

 China to study the mode of dissemination of 

 human diseases caused by trematode parasites, 

 especially bilharziosis, and the relation of such 

 diseases to those occurring in domestic ani- 

 mals. Investigations into ankylostomiasis will 

 also be carried on. The members of the ex- 

 pedition are Dr. E. T. Leiper, helminthologist 

 of the Tropical School; Surgeon E. L. Atkin- 

 son, E.N., and Mr. Cherry-Garrard. The two 

 last named were members of Scott's Antarctic 

 Exjjedition, and the name of Surgeon Atkinson 

 is familiar to the public as the leader of the 

 search party which recovered the bodies of 

 Capt. Scott and his companions. 



UWIVEBSITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS 

 An anonymous gift of $20,000 has been 



made to the library of Haverford College. 



The interest is to be used for the purchase of 



books on literature, history and art. 



At the meeting of the Council on Medical 



Education of the American Medical Associa- 



tion, held in Chicago on February 24, the fol- 

 lowing colleges were given higher ratings: 

 The University of Pittsburgh, School of Medi- 

 cine; Jefferson Medical College, and the Star- 

 ling-Ohio Medical College (now the College of 

 Medicine of the Ohio State University) were 

 raised from Class A to Class A+. The 

 Atlanta Medical College, Atlanta, Ga., and the 

 Fordham University School of Medicine, New 

 York City, were raised from Class B to 

 Class A. 



At the regular meeting of the board of trus- 

 tees of the University of Pennsylvania held 

 March 9, it was decided that beginning with 

 the session 1914^1915, all candidates for the 

 degree doctor of public hygiene shall be re- 

 quired to have had identically the same pre- 

 liminary education as that now demanded of 

 those entering upon medical courses leading to 

 the degree, doctor of medicine; that is to say, 

 at least two years of college work plus the 

 specified amount of physics, chemistry and 

 biology as set forth in the University of Penn- 

 sylvania catalogue. 



At Columbia University the following assis- 

 tant professors have been promoted to the 

 grade of associate professor, from July 1, 1914 : 

 Charles P. Berkey (geology) ; Bergen Davis 

 (physics), and James H. McGregor (zoology). 

 Instructors promoted to be assistant professors 

 are as follows : Jean Broadhurst (biology — 

 Teachers College) ; Clifford D. Carpenter 

 (chemistry — Teachers College) ; Harold B. 

 Keyes (physical education — Teachers Col- 

 lege) ; Arthur C. Neish (chemistry) ; John M. 

 Nelson (chemistry) ; Edward D. Thurston, Jr. 

 (mechanical engineering) ; Harold W. Webb 

 (physics) ; Mary T. Whitley (educational psy- 

 chology — Teachers College), and Jesse F. Wil- 

 liams (physical education — -Teachers College). 



IWiLLiAM J. Miller, Ph.D., professor of 

 geology for the past nine years at Hamilton 

 College, has been elected professor of geology 

 at Smith College. 



Mr. J. M. WoRDiE has been appointed 

 demonstrator of petrology at the University 

 of Cambridge. 



