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riety of conditions to receive attention in 

 ecology. Persons desiring further informa- 

 tion may communicate with Dr. Charles T. 

 Vorhies, University of Utah, Salt Lake City. 



Mr. C. V. Hodgson, of the Coast and Geo- 

 detic Survey, Department of Commerce, has 

 recently left Washington for the southwestern 

 part of the United States, where he will have 

 charge of a party for the determination of the 

 astronomic latitude of triangulation stations 

 established by the Coast and Geodetic Survey 

 and the United States Geological Survey, be- 

 tween Barstow, Tex., and the Pacific Ocean. 

 Many of these stations are on mountains as 

 much as 10,000 feet in height. The results of 

 this work will be used principally for geodetic 

 purposes, that is, the determination of the 

 figure of the earth and the distribution of ma- 

 terial in the earth's crust. The means of 

 transportation for this party will be a li-ton 

 automobile truck which was used successfully 

 on similar work between Denver, Col., and the 

 Canadian border in the season of 1913. A 

 similar truck had been employed also in 1912 

 on the 49th parallel boundary survey between 

 the United States and Canada. The cost of 

 the work during the season of 1913 is esti- 

 mated as only on© half what it would have 

 been if horses and wagons had been used for 

 transportation. The saving in the coming sea- 

 son is expected to be even greater, as the coun- 

 try to be traversed is arid or semiarid and the 

 transportation of water and forage for stock 

 would have been a difficult problem. It is ex- 

 pected that the work will continue until late 

 in the autumn. 



UNIVEBSITT AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS 

 The new buildings of Ziirieh University 

 were formally opened on April 19. The build- 

 ings, which cost about $1,700,000, stand on 

 rising ground overlooking both lake and city. 

 Dr. Theodore C. Janeway, Bard professor 

 of the practise of medicine in Columbia Uni- 

 versity, ha^ accepted the professorship of 

 medicine in Johns Hopkins University under 

 the full time basis made possible by the gift 

 of $1,500,000 by the General Education Board. 



Dr. Mazyck p. Eavenel, professor of medi- 

 cal bacteriology in the University of Wiscon- 

 sin, and director of the public health labora- 

 tory, has accepted the chair of preventive 

 medicine in the University of Missouri. 



The board of regents of the State Uni- 

 versity of Washington has appointed a com- 

 mittee of three to consider the selection of a 

 president and has requested the faculty to 

 choose a like committee, which it has done by 

 secret ballot. This joint committee will report 

 to the faculty and to the regents. 



Dr. E. E. Clark, associate in anatomy at 

 Johns Hopkins University, has accepted an 

 appointment to the chair of anatomy in the 

 University of Missouri. 



Dr. Leverett D. Bristol has left Syracuse 

 University to take charge of the North Dakota 

 state laboratory. 



At the College of the City of New York 

 Professor William Fox has been made full 

 professor of physics and head of the depart- 

 ment and Professor Laurel has been promoted 

 to be full professor of mathematics. 



Dr. William Hallock Park, professor of 

 bacteriology and hygiene in the New York 

 University and Bellevue Hospital Medical Col- 

 lege, has been elected dean of the college by 

 the council of New York University to suc- 

 ceed the late Dr. Egbert le Fevre. 



Dr. Albrecht Bethe, professor of physiol- 

 ogy at Kiel, has accepted a call to Frankfort. 



Professor Dr. H. Merkel, professor of 

 pathological anatomy at Erlangen, has been 

 called to Munich. 



DISCUSSION AND COBBESPONDENCE 



multiple factors in heredity 

 In Science, April 10, 1914, Professor Eam- 

 aley refers appreciatingly to the work of Dr. 

 MacDowell on size inheritance in rabbits, 

 which was carried out in my laboratory, and 

 concludes that this work essentially substan- 

 tiates Davenport's conclusion that the appar- 

 ent blend of human skin color in mulattos is 

 due to two distinct Mendelizing factors 

 possessed by the negro, but lacking in the 

 white races. 



