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■ The University of Cincinnati has estab- 

 lished two new chairs of full rank since the 

 beginning of the last academic year; the chair 

 of political and social science, not yet filled, 

 and that of geology and geography, filled by 

 the selection of Professor Nevin Melancthon 

 Penneman, Ph.D., lately professor of geology 

 in the University of Wisconsin. The succes- 

 sor of Professor Thomas Evans, head of the 

 department "of chemistry, whose death oc- 

 curred in the early summer, is Professor 

 Lauder William Jones, Ph.D., lately in- 

 structor in chemistry in the University of 

 Chicago. Two professors have been retired 

 on the Carnegie Foundation: Edward Miles 

 Brown, English, and Wayland E. Benedict, 

 philosophy. The former's successor has not 

 been chosen and Associate Professor George 

 Morey MiUer is in temporary charge of the 

 department. The new professor of philosophy 

 is H. Heath Bawden, Ph.D., lately of Vassar 

 College. The following appointments of as- 

 sistant professors have become efPective: John 

 J. Porter, M.E., assistant professor of metal- 

 lurgy; Alice C. King, M.A., assistant pro- 

 fessor of elementary education; Prank W. 

 Ballon, B.S., assistant professor of the history 

 and principles of education. Professors Louis 

 Trenchard More, physics, and Marco P. Lib- 

 erma, Romance languages, have returned 

 from leaves of absence of one year, spent in 

 Europe. 



At the University of Missouri, P. W. Lieps- 

 ner, assistant in chemistry, has resigned to 

 accept an instructorship in chemistry at the 

 University of Virginia, and Philip L. Gile, 

 assistant in agricultural chemistry, has re- 

 signed to accept a position in the new govern- 

 ment laboratory in Porto Rico. Dr. Herman 

 Schlupdt has been promoted to be professor 

 of physical chemistry. The following new 

 appointments have been made in chemistry: 

 Dr. P. F. Trowbridge, assistant professor of 

 agricultural chemistry; Norman D. Hendrick- 

 son, C. R. Moulton and L. F. Shackel, assist- 

 ants in agricultural chemisti'y; J. A. Gibson, 

 instructor in analytical chemistry; Merle 

 Randall, assistant; R. M. Smith, student as- 

 sistant in organic chemistry; Clarence Estes, 

 problem reader. Dr. R. B. Gibson has been 



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appointed instructor in ,. 'physiological chem- 

 istry (department of physiology). 



Professor Lewis E/Young, formerly pro- 

 fessor of mining and/metallurgy at the Uni- 

 versity of Colorado,/ has succeeded Professor 

 Geo. E. Ladd as director of the Rolla School 

 of Mines. 



Dr. Franklin Hamilton, pastor of a metho- 

 dist episcopal church at.. BostoB,\ h'as been 

 elected chancellor of the American "University 

 at Wgshington.^ . ■ 



Dr. fi. D. Senior, associate in anatomy in 

 Wistar Institute, Philadelphia, has been 

 )inted professor of medicine at Syracuse 

 University. 



Professor Douglas W. Johnson has re- 

 signed his assistant professorship in the 

 Massachusetts Institute of Technology, to ac- 

 cept an appointment as assistant professor of 

 physiography in Harvard University. The 

 latter appointment was made a year ago, but 

 during the past year Professor Johnson con- 

 tinued to give instruction in the geological 

 department of the institute, his resignation 

 taking effect September 1 of the current year. 



Bertram G. Smith has resigned his posi- 

 tion as instructor in biology in Lake Forest 

 College to accept an appointment as instructor 

 in zoology in Syracuse University. Arthur 

 B. Clawson, formerly assistant in zoology in 

 the University of Wisconsin, will succeed Mr. 

 Smith at Lake Forest. 



Graduates of Harvard University in zool- 

 ogy have accepted appointments as follows: 

 A. M. Banta, Ph.D. ('07), professor of biology 

 at Marietta College, Marietta, O., to succeed 

 Professor T. D. Biscoe, retired; H. S. Davis, 

 Ph.D. ('07), professor of biology in the Uni- 

 versity of the State of Florida, at Gainesville, 

 Fla.; Calvin 0. Esterly, Ph.D. ('07), pro- 

 fessor of biology in Occidental College, Los 

 Angeles, Cal.; W. M. Barrows, S.M. ('06), 

 assistant in zoology at the New Hampshire 

 State Agricultural College and Experiment 

 Station, Durham, N. H.; Donald W. Davis, 

 A.B. ('05), associate professor of biology at 

 Sweet Briar Institute, Sweet Briar, Va.; W. 

 G. Vinal, S.M. ('07), instructor in biology at 

 Marshall College, Huntington, W. Va. 



