Mat 6, 1910] 



SCIENCE 



701 



University, recently absorbed ; the Martha 

 Parsons Hospital and the original endowment 

 fund of the universi<ty. New appointments 

 have been announced as follows: Dr. George 

 Dock, of Tulane University; Dr. John How- 

 land, of the University and Bellevue Hospital 

 Medical College; Dr. Eugene L. Opie, of the 

 Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research, 

 and Dr. Joseph Erlanger, of the University of 

 Wisconsin. Construction of new buildings, 

 to cost more than $1,000,000, will begin at 

 once. 



By the will of Stanley O. Thomas, recently 

 probated, Tulane University received a legacy 

 of $60,000, to be used for the erection of a 

 building. 



Me. R. a. Booth will give the Williamette 

 University, of Salem, Ore., $100,000 as an 

 endowment fund on the condition that the 

 institution raises $300,000 more from other 

 sources. 



Acting upon the suggestion of representa- 

 tives of the Carnegie Foundation, plans are 

 being completed to merge the medical school 

 of Ohio Wesleyan University with that of 

 Western Reserve University, both of which 

 are located in Cleveland. The students and 

 part of the faculty of the College of Physi- 

 cians and Surgeons will by this consolidation 

 be transferred to the Western Reserve Medical 

 School, while Ohio Wesleyan University, of 

 which the College of Physicians and Surgeons 

 now is a department, will sever all connections 

 with the Cleveland school. 



At the annual business meeting of the 

 board of regents of the University of Wiscon- 

 sin Eric W. Miller, of the U. S. Weather 

 Bureau station at Madison, was made lecturer 

 in meteorology; Professor J. D. Phillips, of 

 the engineering drawing department, was 

 made assistant dean of the college of engi- 

 neering; Max Mason was promoted to be pro- 

 fessor of mathematical physics from an asso- 

 ciate professorship of mathematics. The 

 following were promoted from assistant pro- 

 fessor to associate professor: E. B. Skinner, 

 in mathematical physics; L. R. Ingersoll, in 

 physics; E. V. McCollum, in agricultural 

 chemistry, and J. G. Moore, in horticulture. 



Promotions from the instructor to assistant 

 professor were made as follows: C. A. Fuller, 

 in bacteriology; W. J. Mead, in geology; H. 

 C. Wolff, in mathematics; W. H. Brown, in 

 pathology; E. M. Terry, in physics; W. J. 

 Meek, in physiology; W. E. Tottingham, in 

 agricultural chemistry; E. J. Dolwiche and 

 A. L. Stone, in agronomy; G. H. Benkendorf, 

 in dairy husbandry, and J. H. Price, in elec- 

 trical engineering. 



At Columbia University Dr. Edward Eas- 

 ner has been promoted to a professorship of 

 mathematics. Dr. Russell-Burton Opitz, to 

 be associate professor of physiology and Dr. 

 Raymond C. Osburne to be assistant professor 

 of zoology in Barnard College. 



Dr. R. DeC. Ward has been promoted to a 

 chair of climatology at Harvard University. 



Recent additions to the faculty of the Uni- 

 versity of North Dakota are George Alonzo 

 Abbott, Ph.D. (Massachusetts Institute of 

 Technology), professor of chemistry, and 

 Bartholomew J. Spence, Ph.D. (Princeton), 

 assistant professor of physics. 



Mr. J. A. Smith has been elected to the 

 Waynflete chair of moral and metaphysical 

 philosophy in the University of Oxford, to fill 

 the vacancy caused by the resignation of Pro- 

 fessor T. Case. 



DI8CVS8I0N AtHD CORRESPONDENCE 



the UNn'EESITT OF MINNESOTA AND THE 

 CARNEGIE FOUNDATION 



To THE Editor of Science: The following 

 report from the Minneapolis Journal of 

 speeches made after a dinner of the Faculty 

 Club of the University of Minnesota has been 

 corrected by the speakers and is forwarded to- 

 Science for publication. The resolutions re- 

 ferred to have been prepared by the executive- 

 committee and forwarded to the trustees of 

 the foundation. X. 



University of Minnesota, 

 April 29, 1910 



Decided protest against the action of the- 

 trustees of the Carnegie Foundation in sub- 

 stituting complete disability for the twenty- 



