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Survey- in the Blackfeet Reservation in north- 

 western Montana. The partial skeletons of 

 five individuals vrere uncovered at the same 

 time and form a most valuable addition to 

 science. Mr. Gilmore has written a prelimi- 

 nary paper on the new species, published in 

 the Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections, 

 and is working on the assembling of the speci- 

 men for exhibition in the National Museum. 

 California state inspectors at San Francisco 

 have found a new canker disease on chestnut 

 trees recently imported from Japan. Accord- 

 ing to Dr. Haven Metcalf, the government's 

 expert on such diseases, this appears to be of 

 the same type as the chestnut blight which is 

 ravaging the forests of the eastern United 

 States, and it is possible that the new disease 

 would be equally destructive if it became es- 

 tablished in this country. 



VNIVESSITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS 

 The General Education Board has promised 

 to give $750,000 to Wellesley on condition that 

 the balance of the $2,000,000 restoration and 

 endowment fund is completed by January 1, 

 1915. 



It is said that one million dollars will be 

 received by the University of Pennsylvania 

 from the estate of Dr. Louis A. Duhring, for 

 many years professor of dermatology. At the 

 time of his death on May 8, 1913, his bequest 

 was estimated at only $400,000. 



Geinnell College has completed its $500,- 

 000 endowment fund. Of this sum $100,000 

 was given by the General Education Board 

 and the rest was raised by the college. The 

 productive funds of the college now total more 

 than $1,300,000. Of the amount just secured, 

 $150,000 is to be devoted to the erection of 

 new buildings. 



The managers of the Presbyterian Hospital, 

 New York, have taken action reorganizing the 

 administration of the scientific and therapeu- 

 tic work at the hospital so as to provide for 

 single responsibility for both the medical and 

 the surgical services. Dr. Theodore C. Jane- 

 way, Bard professor of the practise of medi- 

 cine in the College of Physicians and Sur- 



geons, Columbia University, has been desig- 

 nated medical director of the hospital, and 

 Dr. George E. Brewer, professor of surgery, 

 has been designated surgical director. Dr. 

 William G. MacCallum, professor of pathol- 

 ogy, has been appointed pathologist at the 

 Hospital. 



Professor Alan W. C. Menzies, Ph.D., now 

 head of the department of chemistry at Ober- 

 lin College, has been elected professor of chem- 

 istry at Princeton University. Other changes 

 are Dr. Edward Gleason Spaulding, promoted 

 to a full professorship in philosophy; and 

 Dr. Thomas Hakon Gronwall, elected assistant 

 professor and preceptor in mathematics. 



Eecent promotions in the faculties of the 

 University of Chicago include the following: 

 To professorships: Harlan H. Barrows, geog- 

 raphy; and 'Ernest J. Wilczynski, mathe-> 

 matics. To associate professorships : Elliot R. 

 Downing, natural science (College of Educa- 

 tion) ; Albert Johannsen, petrology; Walter 

 S. Tower, geography. To assistant professor- 

 ships: Storrs B. Barrett, Yerkes Observatory; 

 Albert D. Brokaw, mineralogy and economic 

 geology; Rollin T. Chamberlin, geology; and 

 Arno B. Luckhardt, physiology. The new 

 appointments include that of Oliver J. Lee to 

 an instructorship in astronomy. 



James Withycombe has resigned his posi- 

 tion as director of the Oregon Agricultural 

 College Experiment Station. 



Dr. William E. Hocking, professor of philos- 

 ophy in the University, has accepted a chair 

 of philosophy in Harvard University. 



Mr. G. H. Hardy, M.A., fellow of Trinity 

 College, University of Cambridge, has been 

 appointed to be Cayley lecturer in mathe- 

 matics, and Mr. A. Berry, M.A., fellow of 

 King's College, a university lecturer in mathe- 

 matics. 



DISCUSSION AND COSBESPONDENCE 



mineral nomenclature 

 The need for revision of mineral nomen- 

 clature has been recently emphasized by Pro- 

 fessor Austin F. Rogers, of Stanford Univer- 

 sity.^ While I agree in the main with the 

 1 Proc. Amer. Phil. Soo., 52, 606-615, 1913. 



