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through and brought into contact with the 

 heated ore. The heated ore is thus converted 

 into a pure iron. Accompanied by and pro- 

 tected by the deoxidizing gas, it is passed into 

 a third chamber or melting hearth, where it 

 falls into a bath of molten iron and is con- 

 verted directly into steel or balled up as mal- 

 leable iron. The savings claimed for the 

 process are those of time, labor — the whole 

 process being automatic — fuel and avoidance 

 of flux. The inventors claim that they have 

 discovered a direct method of producing steel 

 from one operation instead of using the blast 

 furnace and converter. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS. 

 The following additions have been made to 

 the faculty of Stanford University, to begin 

 work with the coming academic year: 



George Hempl, of the University of Michigan, 

 as senior professor in German. 



AUjai Abbott Young, of the University of Wis- 

 consin, as associate professor of economics. 



Thorstein Veblen, of the University of Chicago, 

 as associate professor of economics. 



William Dinsmore Briggs, of Western Reserve 

 University, as assistant professor of English. 



C. A. Huston, of the University of Chicago, as 

 instructor in law. 



Payson J. Treat, of Stanford University, in- 

 structor in history. 



Frank E. Thompson, of the State Normal School 

 of San Diego, instructor in education. 



Hubert H. Hall and L. L. Carter, both of Stan- 

 ford University, instructors in civil engineering. 



Lawrence E. Cutter, of Stanford University, in- 

 structor in mechanical engineering. 



Frederick A. Manchester, of the University of 

 Wisconsin, instructor in English. 



Pierre Comert, of the University of Paris, in- 

 structor in French. 



Homer P. Earle, of Stanford University, in- 

 structor in Spanish. 



W. O. Mendenhall, of Haverford College, in- 

 structor in applied mathematics. 



Rennie W. Doane, of Stanford University, in- 

 structor in entomology. 



William E. Burke and William H. Sloan, both 

 of Stanford University, instructors in chemistry. 



Luther Burbank, of Santa-Rosa, lecturer on 

 plant evolution. 



Ephraim Douglass Adams has been promoted 

 to a professorship in history and Edward 

 Curtis Franklin to a professorship in organic 



chemistry; Hans Erederik Blichfeldt to an 

 associate professorship in mathematics; and 

 Charles Henry Huberich to an associate pro- 

 fessorship in law. Henry Suzzallo has been 

 promoted to an assistant professorship in edu- 

 cation; Anstruther A. Lawson to an assistant 

 professorship in botany; Kenneth Livermore 

 Curtis to an assistant professorship in elec- 

 trical engineering; Arthur Martin Cathcart 

 to an assistant professorship in law; and 

 Henry David Gray to an assistant professor- 

 ship in English. The work of repairs of 

 earthquake damages at Stanford University 

 has been placed in the hands of a commission 

 of the engineering faculty composed of Pro- 

 fessors Charles David Marx, William E. Du- 

 rand and Charles B. Wing. The repairs have 

 pi'ogressed so far that all necessary rooms are 

 ready for the work of the coming academic 

 year, which begins on August 23, 1906. 



Lemenuel W. Eamulener, B.S. (Michigan, 

 '02), Ph.C. (Michigan, 1900), M.D. (Mich- 

 igan, '06), has been appointed assistant pro- 

 fessor of pathology in Indiana University. 

 Dr. Eamulener was for three years Nelson 

 Baker and Co. research fellow in pharmacol- 

 ogy under Dr. Cushny at the University of 

 Michigan, and for one year a worker with 

 Dr. Mansen in the Statens Seruminstitut at 

 Copenhagen, Denmark. 



Dr. Bruce Fink, of Iowa College, has been 

 appointed professor of botany at Miami Uni- 

 versity, Oxford, Ohio. 



James T. Eood, Ph.D., has been elected 

 professor of mathematics and physics at 

 Ursinus College, CoUegeville, Pa. 



Mr. Diarmid ISToel Paton, superintendent 

 of the laboratory of the Royal College of Phy- 

 sicians, Edinburgh, has been appointed regius 

 professor of physiology in the University of 

 Glasgow, in place of Professor J. G. M'Ken- 

 drick, resigned. 



Dr. Eugene Albrecht, director of the 

 Senckenbergische Institut at Frankfort, has 

 been called to the chair of pathology at Mar- 

 burg. 



Dr. Gustav Steinmann, of Freiburg, has 

 been called to a chair of geology at Halle. 



