June 17, 1910] 



SCIENCE 



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dian Marine (Terra Nova) ; Engineer Lieu- 

 tenant E. W. Eiley, E.IST., chief engineer 

 (Terra Nova) ; Surgeon G. M. Levick, E.N., 

 doctor, zoologist, etc. (eastern party) ; Surgeon 

 E. L. Atkinson, E.N., doctor, bacteriologist, 

 parasitologist; Mr. F. E. H. Drake, E.N., sec- 

 retary (Terra Nova) ; Mr. C. H. Meares, 

 charge of ponies and dogs (western party) ; 

 Captain L. E. G. Gates, Inniskilling Dragoons, 

 charge of ponies and dogs (western party) ; 

 Dr. G. L. Simpson, physicist (western party) ; 

 Mr. T. Griffith Taylor, geologist ( ? western 

 party) ; Mr. E. W. Nelson, biologist (western 

 party) ; Mr. D. G. Lillie, biologist (Terra 

 Nova) ; Mr. A. Cherry Garrard, assistant zool- 

 ogist (western party) ; Mr. H. G. Pouting, 

 photographer (western party) ; Mr. B. C. Day, 

 motor engineer (western party) ; Mr. W. G. 

 Thomson, geologist ( ? western party) ; Mr. C. 

 S. Wright, chemist (western party) ; Mr. T. 

 Gran, assistant (western party). 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS 



The Cleveland College of Physicians and 

 Surgeons, which has been the medical depart- 

 ment of Ohio Wesleyan University, will be 

 consolidated with the medical department of 

 Western Eeserve University at the close of the 

 present college year. The trustees of Western 

 Eeserve University have . elected from the 

 teaching staff of the medical department of 

 Ohio Wesleyan University one member to the 

 faculty and eighteen other members to the 

 teaching staff. President Thwing has an- 

 nounced a gift by Mr. H. M. Hanna of $250,- 

 000 as an additional endowment fund for the 

 medical department. This gift is the first 

 quarter of an additional endowment of $1,000,- 

 000 which the university now purposes to 

 secure. 



Mr. David J. Eanken, Jr., of St. Louis, 

 founder of the David J. Eanken, Jr., School 

 of Mechanical Trades, has deeded his fortune, 

 estimated at more than $3,000,000, to the 

 board of trustees of the school, to be used for 

 its maintenance and enlargement. 



Mrs. Eussell Sage has given a further sum 

 of $148,000 to Princeton University for a 



tower and other improvements in connection 

 with the dormitory she has given to the 

 university. 



Dartmouth College receives an adminis- 

 tration building by the gift of $50,000 from 

 Mr. and Mrs. Lewis W. Parkhurst, of Win- 

 chester. It is a memorial to their son, Wilder 

 Lewis Parkhurst, who died during his sopho- 

 more year at the college. 



By the will of Augustus L. Eevere Harvard 

 University receives $20,000 to found a Eevere 

 family memorial fund. 



The recent commencement exercises at the 

 University of Alabama were marked by the 

 formal acceptance by the university authori- 

 ties of two new buildings, Comer Hall and 

 Smith Hall. The dedicatory address for 

 Comer Hall, the engineering building, was 

 delivered by Mr. F. H. Crockard, first vice- 

 president and general manager of the Tennes- 

 see Coal, Iron and Eailroad Company, and 

 that for Smith Hall, the geological-biological 

 building, by Dr. J. A. Holmes, of the United 

 States Geological Survey. These two build- 

 ings were erected at an approximate cost of 

 $300,000. Smith Hall has been named in 

 honor of Dr. Eugene A. Smith, who, as pro- 

 fessor of geology and state geologist for many 

 years, has rendered conspicuous service to the 

 state. A native of Alabama, he was educated 

 at the University of Alabama and at Heidel- 

 berg, receiving the doctor's degree at the latter 

 in 1868. He has held his present position as 

 professor of geology since 1871 and has been 

 state geologist since 18Y3. Dr. Holmes, in his 

 address dedicating Smith Hall, stated that, in 

 having spent thirty-seven years continuously 

 in the service of one state, Dr. Smith holds the 

 record for length of service among living state 

 geologists. 



At the Johns Hopkins University, Dr. H. S. 

 Jennings, now professor of experimental zool- 

 ogy, has been appointed Henry Walters pro- 

 fessor of zoology and director of the biological 

 laboratory, in succession to the late Professor 

 W. K. Brooks. 



Gabriel Campbell, of Dartmouth College, 

 will retire from the Stone professorship of 



