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SCIENCE. 



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recognize the fact that no good work can be 

 done in ceramics which is not based on the 

 three sciences, chemistry, physics and geology. 

 With these sciences and technical instruction 

 in clay working as its backbone, the course in 

 ceramics also offers instruction in art, English 

 and modern languages, mathematics, physical 

 training and military tactics. 



In the course in ceramic engineering, in- 

 struction in art and in certain technical sub- 

 jects is replaced by elementary courses in 

 electrical, mechanical and civil engineering. 

 The course is intended principally for those 

 who wish to install plants rather than operate 

 them. Substitutions are also suggested which 

 will adapt the course to the needs of the 

 manufacturer of limes and cements. 



Students in all except the strictly technical 

 subjects work in the laboratories of the scien- 

 tific and engineering departments. The spe- 

 cial ceramic laboratories are equipped with 

 kilns, furnaces, presses, mills, jiggers, whirlers, 

 and such other machines, all of the latest and 

 most approved types, as are necessary to en- 

 able the student to do thoroughly practical 

 work. 



The school counts among its friends the 

 managers of nearly all the large clay-working 

 establishments in Illinois', and there seems to 

 be no reason why it shall not speedily become 

 very helpful to the clay interests of the state 

 and nation and at the same time open to 

 young men a new and profitable field for 

 effort. 



PHYSIOLOGY AND EXPERIMENTAL MEDI- 

 CINE AT THE NEW ORLEANS MEETING. 



The sessions of Section K of the American 

 Association for the Advancement of Science, 

 which will be held on the morning and after- 

 noon of January 1, promise to be of unusual 

 interest. The morning session will be opened 

 by an address by the vice-president. Dr. Will- 

 iam T. Sedgwick, on ' The Experimental 

 Method in Sanitary Science and Sanitary 

 Practise.' The remainder of the morning 

 session and all of the afternoon will be de- 

 voted to a symposium on yellow fever and 

 other insect-borne diseases. Yellow fever in 

 its various phases will be discussed by Drs. J. 



H. White, Quitman Kolinke, James Carroll 

 and H. A. Veazie. It is expected that Dr. 

 Edmund Souchon, Surgeon-General Wyman 

 and Col. W. C. Gorgas and other specialists, 

 will also take part in the discussion. Dr. 

 William S. Thayer will read a paper on ' The 

 Problem of Prophylaxis Against Malaria in 

 the United States,' Dr. Henry B. Ward will 

 consider filariasis and trypanosome diseases. 

 Dr. Charles W. Stiles will present a resume 

 of facts bearing on the principles involved in 

 the transmission of diseases by insects, and 

 Dr. Gary N. Calkins will discuss the protozoon 

 life cycle. Dr. L. O. Howard will talk on 

 mosquitoes that carry disease and Mr. Henry 

 Clay Weeks, secretary of the American Mos- 

 quito Extermination Society, will present the 

 practical side of mosquito extermination. 

 William J. Gies, 



Secretary. 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS. 

 Dr. Henry S. Pritchett has resigned the 

 presidency of the Massachusetts Institute of 

 Technology to accept the presidency of the 

 Carnegie Foundation for pensioning college 

 and university professors, the offices of which 

 will be in New York City. 



A DEPARTMENT of botanical research to in- 

 clude the Desert Laboratory and other botan- 

 ical projects, was established by the action of 

 the trustees of the Carnegie Institution at a 

 recent meeting. Dr. D. T. MacDougal has 

 resigned as assistant director of the New York 

 Botanical Garden to accept the post of direc- 

 tor of the newly organized department. 



Major D. Prain, hitherto director of the 

 Botanical Garden at Calcutta, has been ap- 

 pointed to the directorship of Kew Gardens, 

 vacant by the retirement of Sir William 

 Thiselton-Dyei". 



Mr. E. W. Dyson, E.E.S., chief assistant at 

 Greenwich Observatory, has been appointed 

 astronomer royal for Scotland, and professor 

 of practical astronomy in Edinburgh Univer- 

 sity, in the room of the late Professor Cope- 

 land. 



Professor William Stirling, M.D., Brack- 

 enbury professor of physiology and histology 



