678 



SCIENCE 



[N. S. Vol. XXVI. No. 672 



Professor B. Palmer Caldwell will take 

 charge of the work in chemistry, Professor 

 John W. Caldwell having retired from this 

 position last June on a Carnegie pension. He 

 will be assisted by Messrs. Scott C. Lyon and 

 H. B. Eeese. 



Mr. G. Byron Waldrop has been appointed 

 to the teaching fellowship in Greek. 



Mr. George J. Theriot and Mr. Sidney 

 Crespo have been appointed instructors of 

 mechanical drawing and mechanic arts, re- 

 spectively. 



Mr. Andre Dreux, graduate of L'Ecole des 

 Chartes, Paris, noted lecturer and critic, has 

 been elected to the vacancy in the department 

 of French in Newcomb College, Miss Marie 

 Augustin having retired from this position 

 last June on a Carnegie pension. 



Dr. J. A. C. Mason, former fellow in Co- 

 lumbia University, has been appointed to the 

 chair of history in Newcomb College. Pro- 

 fessor Pierce Butler, who formerly held this 

 chair, has been promoted to the chair of Eng- 

 lish, Mrs. Jane C. Nixon having retired last 

 June on a Carnegie pension. 



Miss Margaret E. Cross, head of the depart- 

 ment of Latin and psychology in the State 

 Normal School, at Natchitoches, Louisiana, 

 will take charge of the department of educa- 

 tion in Newcomb College. 



Dr. Edmond Souchon, who taught for 

 twenty-eight years in the medical department 

 of the university, retired last June on a Car- 

 negie pension. 



The following promotions and appointments 

 have been made in the medical department 

 since the close of last session: 



Dr. Isadore Dyer, associate dean and pro- 

 fessor of diseases of the skin; Dr. Paul E. 

 Archinard, professor of diseases of the nervous 

 system ; Dr. J. B. Elliott, professor of clinical 

 medicine; Dr. E. D. Eenner, professor of 

 orthopedics and surgical diseases of children; 

 Dr. Henry Bayon, acting professor and dem- 

 onstrator of anatomy; Dr. Marcus Feingold, 

 professor of ophthalmology; Dr. Charles J. 

 Landfried, professor of otology, laryngology 

 and rhinology; Dr. Herman B. Gessner, asso- 

 ciate professor of operative surgery and in- 

 structor of clinical surgery; Dr. W. W. But- 



terworth, associate professor of diseases of 

 children; Dr. S. M. D. Clark, associate pro- 

 fessor of gynecology; Dr. George S. Bel, asso- 

 ciate professor of clinical medicine; Dr. 

 Marion S. Souchon, assistant demonstrator of 

 anatomy and instructor of clinical surgery; 

 Dr. William M. Perkins, demonstrator of op- 

 erative surgery and instructor of clinical sur- 

 gery; Dr. Ralph Hopkins, lecturer and in- 

 structor in physiology, hygiene and diseases 

 of the skin; Dr. John Smyth, lecturer and 

 demonstrator in the laboratory of minor sur- 

 gery and instructor of clinical surgery; Dr. 

 Urban Maes, junior assistant demonstrator of 

 operative surgery and instructor of clinical 

 surgery; Dr. Joseph D. Weis, lecturer and in- 

 structor in clinical medicine; Dr. I. I. Le- 

 mann, lecturer and instructor in clinical medi- 

 cine; Dr. J. L. C. Perrilliat, clinical instructor 

 of obstetrics; Dr. Charles C. Bass, instructor 

 of clinical microscopy and clinical medicine; 

 Dr. Edward O. Trahan, assistant demonstrator 

 in the microscopical laboratory ; Dr. George J. 

 Tusson, assistant demonstator in the micro- 

 scopical laboratory; Dr. Sidney K. Simon, 

 instructor of clinical medicine; Dr. Eugene 

 deBellard, assistant demonstrator in the mi- 

 croscopical laboratory; Dr. Carroll W. Allen, 

 instructor of clinical surgery ; Dr. J. B. Craw- 

 ford; junior assistant demonstrator of opera- 

 tive surgery; Drs. C. J. Miller, L. E. DeBuys 

 and P. B. Salatich, chiefs of clinics of obstet- 

 rics and gynecology; Drs. P. A. Mcllhenny 

 and E. S. Hatch, chiefs of clinics of ortho- 

 pedics and surgical diseases of children; Dr. 

 Henry Daspit, Jr., chief of clinic for practise 

 of medicine. 



The university will erect at once on the 

 campus, opposite Audubon Park, buildings for 

 its medical department at a cost, including 

 laboratories, of $260,000. The first two years' 

 work of the medical department will hereafter 

 be given upon the university campus; the 

 work will be rigidly scientific. The last two 

 years' work will be given in the present down- 

 town building, which is near the Charity Hos- 

 pital, with which the medical department of 

 the university is affiliated. During the year, 

 three professors will be added to the medical 

 faculty — a professor of anatomy, a professor 



