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SCIENCE 



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searches. Among those who will offer courses 

 at the station during the coming session are 

 the following: Trevor Kincaid, professor of 

 zoology. University of Washington ; Nathaniel 

 L. Gardner, acting professor of botany, Uni- 

 versity of California; W. J. Baumgartner, 

 assistant professor of zoology, University of 

 Kansas; Geo. B. Eiggs, assistant professor of 

 botany, University of Washington; W. L. 

 Moodie, instructor in botany, Bellingham 

 State Normal School; F. A. Hartman, in- 

 structor in zoology, Seattle High School. For 

 those wishing to investigate the marine fauna 

 and flora of the northwest coast the Puget 

 Sound Marine Station, located in the midst 

 of a picturesque archipelago of rocky islands, 

 offers an unsurpassed opportunity. Further 

 information with regard to the station will be 

 supplied by the director, Professor Trevor Kin- 

 caid, University of Washington, Seattle, Wash. 



U^^ITERSITY AyD EDVCATIO^AL NEWS 

 Johns Hopkins Univeesity has received an 

 offer of $250,000 from the General Education 

 Board for the purpose of aiding the university 

 in its efforts to put into operation certain ex- 

 tensions and improvements that have been 

 under consideration for several years, in- 

 cluding the erection of new buildings on the 

 Homewood site. This sum will be contributed 

 conditional on the raising of a supplementary 

 sum of $750,000 by the university by December 

 31, 1910. The university, however, is endea- 

 voring to raise $2,000,000, half for new build- 

 ings, while the other $1,000,000 will be used 

 for endowment. Among the extensions con- 

 templated are a school of engineering; a law 

 school; a training school for teachers; a de- 

 partment of preventive medicine, and a build- 

 ing for pathology. 



A joint hearing on the bills to appropriate 

 $652,000 for new buildings for the College of 

 Agriculture and $130,000 for new buildings 

 for the Veterinary College at Cornell Uni- 

 versity was given on April 5 by the finance 

 committee of the senate and the ways and 

 means committee of the assembly. Thirty- 

 six persons spoke in favor of the bills and no- 

 body appeared in opposition to them. From 



the standpoint of the colleges addresses were 

 given by Acting Director H. J. Webber, Dr. 

 V. A. Moore and Director L. H. Bailey. The 

 hearing was closed by President Schurman's 

 address summarizing the argument. 



Dr. Cheesman A. Hereick, formerly prin- 

 cipal of the William Penn high school for 

 girls, was installed as president of Girard Col- 

 lege on April 2. 



Dr. Albert E. Giescke, an American and a 

 graduate of Cornell University in political 

 science, has been elected rector of the Univer- 

 sity of Cuzco, Peru. This university was 

 founded by a papal decree of 1692. Dr. 

 Giescke went there as a member of the faculty 

 in 1908. 



At Stanford University appointments have 

 been made as follows: E. W. Ponzzer, of the 

 University of Illinois, assistant professor of 

 applied mathematics; Hans Zinsser, instruc- 

 tor in bacteriology in Columbia University, 

 associate professor of bacteriology; Frank P. 

 Blaisdell, assistant professor of anatomy; 

 David M. Folsom, assistant professor of min- 

 ing; Galen H. Clevenger, assistant professor 

 of metallurgy; Rufus C. Bentley and Lewis 

 M. Terman, assistant professors of education. 

 As instructors have been appointed Perley A. 

 Eoss, in physics, and George F. McEwen, in 

 applied mathematics. The following promo- 

 tions have been made: George C. Price, now 

 associate professor, to be professor of zoology; 

 George J. Peirce, now associate professor, to 

 be professor of botany; William A. Hille- 

 brand, now instructor in electrical engineer- 

 ing, to be assistant professor; Eoyce E. Long, 

 now instructor in physical training, to be as- 

 sistant professor; Luther W. Bahney, now in- 

 structor in metallurgy, to be assistant pro- 

 fessor. 



DISCUSSION AND CORRESPONDENCE 



'/ THE GERM THEORY OF DISEASE 



In Science for April 1, p. 500, Dr. Fielding 

 H. Garrison has pointed out the true author 

 of the germ theory. We can readily accept 

 this until an earlier author is discovered by 

 some one. Knowledge in most cases seems to 



