SCIENCE 



[N. S. Vol. XXVII. No. 694 



last year as dean of the School of Mines and 

 professor of mining geology in the Western 

 University of Pennsylvania. The call was 

 accepted with the understanding that he was 

 to hold both positions and to discharge the 

 necessary duties of both until September 15, 

 1908, when he would take up his permanent 

 residence in Pittsburgh. The Western Uni- 

 versity having purchased a new site near the 

 Oamegie Institute and the Technical Schools, 

 Dr. Wadsworth has completely reorganized 

 the School of Mines and prepared plans for 

 the new $175,000 mining building, which is 

 to be erected next summer. During the less 

 than seven years of Dr. Wadsworth's charge 

 of the School of Mines at the State College 

 it has been raised from the nineteenth to the 

 sixth in size in the United States. It has 

 been completely reorganized and now has 

 some of the most advanced courses of any 

 school of mines. 



Professok H. a. Winkenweeden, of the 

 U. S. Bureau of Forestry, has been appointed 

 professor of forestry at the Colorado School 

 of Forestry, Colorado Springs, in place of 

 Professor J. F. Baker, who has resigned. The 

 curriculum of the school has been consider- 

 ably enlarged, and, beginning in 1909, it is to 

 be extended to cover four years and to lead 

 to the degree of bachelor of forestry. The 

 summer course will be continued as hereto- 

 fore, both as a required part of the regular 

 curriculum and as a separate course for spe- 

 cial students, but the length of this course has 

 been reduced to two months. During the 

 coming summer extensive experiments on the 

 growth of yellow pine will be begun by the 

 school in cooperation with the U. S. Bureau 

 of Forestry, on the Manitou Park Reserve 

 belonging to the school. 



New York University has appointed as pro- 

 fessor of pathology and director of the labora- 

 tory of pathology of the University and 

 Bellevue Hospital Medical College, Dr. 

 Richard Mills Pearce, Jr., of Albany. Dr. 

 Pearce received his degree from the Harvard 

 Medical School in 1897. Subsequently he 

 studied at the University of Leipsic. He was 

 resident pathologist at the Boston City Hos- 

 pital 1896-9 ; instructor in pathology at Har- 



vard 1899-1900 ; demonstrator and later assist- 

 ant professor of pathology in the University 

 of Pennsylvania, 1900-3, and since 1903 has 

 been director of the Bender Hygienic Labora- 

 tory at Albany; director of the bureau of 

 pathology and bacteriology. New York State 

 Department of Health ; professor of pathology 

 and bacteriology at the Albany Medical Col- 

 lege. 



Mr. a. O. Lovejoy has accepted a call to 

 the professorship of philosophy in the Uni- 

 versity of Missouri, and will therefore sever 

 his connection with Washington University, 

 St. Louis, at the close of the current academic 

 year. 



H. B. Alexander, A.B. (Nebraska, '97), 

 Ph.D. (Columbia, '01), now engaged in liter- 

 ary work at Springfield, Mass., has been 

 elected professor of philosophy at the Univer- 

 sity of Nebraska. 



The following promotions have been made 

 at Harvard University: W. E. Castle to pro- 

 fessor of zoology, H. J. Hughes to be assistant 

 professor of civil engineering, John Warren 

 to be assistant professor of anatomy. David 

 Cheever to be demonstrator of anatomy and 

 J. H. Woods to be assistant professor of phi- 

 losophy. 



President E. R. Nichols, of the Kansas 

 State Agricultural College, has resigned, the 

 resignation to take effect July 1, 1909. Pro- 

 fessor C. H. Burkett, director of the experi- 

 ment station, and Mrs. H. W. Calvin, pro- 

 fessor of domestic science in the same institu- 

 tion, have also resigned their positions. 



Mr. R. H. Biffen has been elected to the 

 recently established chair of agricultural 

 botany at Cambridge University. Mr. Biffen 

 is, as recorded in Nature, the author of 

 numerous papers, the earlier of which dealt 

 with the preparation of india-rubber and the 

 coagulation of latex, and he has devoted a 

 great deal of attention to fungi. His re- 

 searches on the hybridization of wheat and 

 barley have attracted the attention of civilized 

 governments throughout the world, and at- 

 tempts have been made to induce him to leave 

 England and place his services at the disposal 

 of at least one foreign government. 



