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of the service. Admiral Eixey, the surgeon 

 general, has undertaken to give temporary ap- 

 pointments as ' acting assistant surgeons ' to 

 the young men who will pass a satisfactory 

 preliminary examination and come to Wash- 

 ington for instruction. They will receive six 

 months' special training at the Naval Medi- 

 cal School and Hospital, or at the Mare Island 

 Naval Hospital. At the end of that course 

 they will receive appointments as assistant 

 surgeons, with an annual salary of $1,760, 

 supplemented by allowances of $432 and mile- 

 age. The shortage of doctors in the navy has 

 become really serious. There are sixty-four 

 vacancies in a corps that at its maximum 

 should number only 350. 



At its meeting of May 30, the Wisconsin 

 Natural History Society will celebrate the 

 fiftieth anniversary of its foundation. Mr. 

 Charles H. Doerflinger will give a brief sketch 

 of the founding of the society, and Professor 

 E. A. Birge, of the University of Wisconsin, 

 will speak on ' Science and the People.' 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS 



An alumnus of the College of the City of 

 New York, who prefers to withhold his name 

 has given $10,000 to the institution. 



Columbia University has received a gift 

 of $1,000 from Mr. Charles S. Bartow, towards 

 a mathematical laboratory and museum, and 

 $500 from an anonymous donor for researches 

 in anthropology. 



Dr. Benjamin Ide Wheeler, since 1899 

 president of the University of California and 

 previously professor of Greek at Cornell Uni- 

 versity, has been offered the presidency of the 

 Massachusetts Institute of Technology by the 

 subcommittee of the corporation. The offer 

 must be confirmed by the corporation, and it 

 is not certain that President Wheeler will 

 accept. 



Dr. John Scholte Nollen, head of the 

 German department at Indiana University, 

 has been called to the presidency of the Lake 

 Forest University, to succeed Dr. Richard 

 Harlan, who resigned last autumn. 



Frank P. McKebben, associate professor of 

 civil engineering at the Massachusetts Insti- 

 tute of Technology, has been appointed pro- 

 fessor of civil engineering at Lehigh Uni- 

 versity, in charge of the department, in place 

 of Professor Mansfield Merriman, who has re- 

 signed after a record of twenty-eight years' 

 service. 



Dr. J. Bishop Tingle, who during the past 

 three years has been assistant in charge of the 

 Laboratory of Organic Chemistry in the Johns 

 Hopkins University, and assistant editor of 

 the American Chemical Journal, has been ap- 

 pointed professor of chemistry at McMaster 

 University, Toronto, Canada. 



Professor Frederic E. Clements, of the 

 chair of plant physiology in the University of 

 Nebraska has accepted a call to the professor- 

 ship of botany in the University of Minnesota. 

 He will sever his connection with the Uni- 

 versity of Nebraska, in which he has been a 

 teacher for thirteen years, in time to enable 

 him to assume the duties of his new position 

 at the opening of the fall semester. He con- 

 tinues the present summer his studies of 

 Rocky Mountain Botany at the Pike's Peak 

 Laboratory near Manitou, and in addition is 

 to make more extended studies in other parts 

 of Colorado. As heretofore, he is to be ac- 

 companied by a party of advanced students. 



Dr. G. F. Ruediger, until recently of the 

 Memorial Institute for Infectious Diseases, 

 Chicago, has been appointed professor of 

 pathology and bacteriology in the University 

 of North Dakota. The position includes the 

 directorship of the state health laboratory. 



Dr. Elias Potter Lyon was unanimously 

 elected dean of the Medical Department of 

 the St. Louis University at the May meeting 

 of the board of directors. Dr. Lyon received 

 his bachelor's degree at Hillsdale College in 

 1892; the doctorate in philosophy at the Uni- 

 versity of Chicago in 189Y. He was instructor 

 in biology at the Bradley Institute, Peoria, 

 assistant professor of physiology at the Rush 

 Medical College and finally dean of medical 

 work at the Chicago University before taking 

 charge of the Department of Physiology at 

 the St. Louis University in 1904. 



