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Dunkirk; and the Homestead and McKees- 

 port iron mills and furnaces. 



A RECENT paper by A. W. Rogers, director 

 of the Geological Survey of Cape Colony, 

 South Africa, on the ' Campbell Rand and 

 Griquatown series in Hay ' (Trans. Geol. Soc. 

 S. Africa, IX., 1906, pp. 1-9) gives among 

 other things an account of a newly discovered 

 series of glacial beds in the Griquatown series. 

 The boulders included have beautifully stri- 

 ated surfaces, and the deposit itself is char- 

 acterized as a very well developed glacial till, 

 often thoroughly indurated, so that the boul- 

 ders can not be broken from it. This deposit 

 is of more ancient date than the Permian 

 Dwyka formation, and is probably of early 

 Paleozoic time; thus adding another curious 

 problem to South African geology. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS. 



It is proposed, in connection with the open- 

 ing next September of the new laboratories of 

 the Harvard Medical School in Boston, to in- 

 augurate a new system of advanced instruction 

 in the medical sciences, designed especially to 

 meet the needs of those desiring to pursue any 

 of these branches as a profession. The system 

 includes the organization of a new department 

 of comparative anatomy, which has been 

 placed in charge of Dr. Charles S. Minot, 

 whose appointment was recently announced in 

 this journal. The instruction in this depart- 

 ment will be confined for the present at least 

 to electives for fourth-year medical students 

 and for graduates. The position of instructor 

 in comparative anatomy has been established 

 with a salary of probably $1,200. Candidates 

 for this appointment should apply to Dr. 

 Charles S. Minot, Harvard Medical School. 

 The instructor will have charge of animal dis- 

 section, and will be expected to carry on orig- 

 inal research subject to the approval of the 

 head of the laboratory. The field of research 

 will not be prescribed. The investigations 

 already planned are in the domain of the com- 

 parative morphology of vertebrates. The 

 laboratory is large and will be well equipped 

 and furnished with a good working library. 



There will be special facilities for work in com- 

 parative embryology. 



The board of trustees of the Connecticut 

 Agricultural College has authorized the execu- 

 tive committee of the board to receive and 

 accept the Edwin Gilbert bequest consisting 

 of a farm of 350 acres at Georgetown, Conn., 

 together with a fund of $60,000 for the main- 

 tenance of the farm. The tract of land is to 

 be used for experimental purposes in connec- 

 tion with the work of the agricultural college, 

 but it is not intended in any sense to establish 

 a branch of the college at Georgetown. 



Mr. Le Eoy Abrams, assistant curator of 

 the division of plants, U. S. National Museum, 

 has been appointed assistant professor of sys- 

 tematic botany at Stanford University. Dr. 

 E. C. Franklin, associate professor, has been 

 promoted to a full professorship of organic 

 chemistry and Dr. H. S. Blichfeldt has been 

 promoted to an associate professorship of 

 mathematics. 



David Samuel Snedden, associate professor 

 of education in Leland Stanford Junior Uni- 

 versity, has been appointed adjunct professor 

 of educational administration in Teachers 

 College, Columbia University; Dr. Kate Gor- 

 don, associate professor of psychology in Mt. 

 Holyoke College, has been appointed instruct- 

 or in educational psychology, and Miss Jean 

 Broadhurst, of the Trenton (N. J.) Normal 

 School, instructor in nature study. 



The board of regents of the University of 

 Nebraska has made the following promotions : 

 G. R. Chatburn, professor of applied mechan- 

 ics; E. L. Hinman, professor of philosophy; 

 Benton Dales, associate professor of chemis- 

 try; J. H. Gain, associate professor of animal 

 husbandry; R. A. Lyman, assistant professor 

 of pharmaco-dynamics ; L. W. Chase, assistant 

 professor of farm mechanics; F. D. Barker, 

 adjunct professor of zoology; G. A. Loveland, 

 assistant professor of meteorology. Professor 

 H. R. Smith has been appointed head of the 

 department of animal husbandry; Professor 

 T. L. Lyon has been made professor of agron- 

 omy in the Agricultural Experiment Station, 

 and F. D. Heald, professor of agricultural 

 botany. 



