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SCIENCE 



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place of the tiger and other big game, which 

 have been transformed into fine rubber plan- 

 tations, and now Malacca, which has for years 

 been largely neglected, is in a flourishing con- 

 ■dition. A short time ago there was no bank- 

 ing institution in the town of Malacca; to-day 

 ithree banks are doing a good business, and 

 the place is rapidly becoming an important 

 ■center. 



VNITER8ITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS 



Jesse T. Bonney, of Norfolk, Va., leaves 

 -an estate of about $400,000, subject to the 

 •dower rights of his wife, to educational insti- 

 tutions for girls which he established. The 

 Tvidow's dower, which is one third of the whole 

 •estate for life, goes to the institutions after 

 her death. 



In May the Denver and Gross College of ' 

 liedicine signed a contract by which it unites 

 -with the School of Medicine of the University 

 ■of Colorado. The Denver and Gross College 

 has discontinued the teaching of the first two 

 years of the medical curriculum and on or 

 before the first of January, 1911, will discon- 

 tinue the teaching of the remaining years as 

 well. A constitutional amendment permitting 

 the university to conduct the last two years 

 of the medical course in Denver will be sub- 

 mitted to the people of the state. 



The following appointments have been 

 made in the University of North Carolina for 

 the coming session: Dr. Robert A. Hall, for- 

 merly assistant professor in Clemson College, 

 associate professor of organic chemistry; Dr. 

 •James M. Bell, U. S. Bureau of Soils, asso- 

 ciate professor of physical chemistry; Hamp- 

 den Hill, instructor in analytical chemistry; 

 Parker H. Daggett, of Harvard University, 

 professor of electrical engineering; V. L. 

 ■Chrisler, M.S. (Nebraska), assistant in phys- 

 ics in the University of Nebraska, instructor 

 in physics; Guy E. Clements, instructor in 

 Williams College, professor of mathematics; 

 T. E. Eagles, professor of mathematics in 

 Bethany College, West Virginia, instructor in 

 mathematics. M. H. Stacy, formerly asso- 



ciate professor of civil engineering, has been 

 promoted to professor of civil engineering and 

 T. F. Hickerson has been advanced to asso- 

 ciate professor of civil engineering. 



L.\wrence W. Cole, A.B. (Oklahoma), 

 Ph.D. (Harvard), recently professor at the 

 University of Oklahoma and instructor at 

 Wellesley College and in the Harvard Sum- 

 mer School, has been appointed professor of 

 psychology in the University of Colorado, to 

 succeed Vivian A. C. Henmon, A.B. (Beth- 

 any), Ph.D. (Columbia), who has been called 

 to the University of Wisconsin. 



The Vienna correspondent of the Journal 

 of the American Medical Association writes 

 that there are at present vacant three important 

 chairs for medical instruction, those of the 

 deceased Schnabel and Zuckerkandl (ophthal- 

 mology and anatomy, respectively), and of 

 von Striimpell (medicine), whose sudden 

 resignation caused so much com m ent in all 

 circles. The successors have been nominated 

 already by the recommendations of the med- 

 ical faculty of the university; and Professor 

 Demmer, of Graz, will take over the eye clinic 

 in October; it will be remembered that this 

 place was refused by Hess on account of the 

 insufficient endowment and little space in the 

 old clinic whence so much original investiga- 

 tion had come. The chair of anatomy has 

 been offered to Tandler, of Vienna, who will 

 probably be appointed. The successor of 

 Striimpell will be either Chvostek or Ortner, 

 both Austrians and both in very good standing 

 in medical circles. 



DISCUSSION AND CORBESPONDENCE 



THE TEACHING OF ELEMENTARY PHYSICS 



To THE Editor of Science : Physics teachers 

 will, no doubt, read with considerable interest 

 the discussions on the teaching of elementary 

 physics which have been going on in Science. 

 While I was not present at the Boston meeting 

 nor on Professor Hall's mailing list, I should 

 like to venture to comment upon his paper. 



It seems to me that propositions 1, 2, 3 and 

 4 might very well be accepted, as well as first 



