464 



SCIENCE 



[N. S. Vol. XXXII. No. 823 



work. Previous to the beginning of the state 

 survey the TJ. S. bureau had conducted sur- 

 veys in the Viroqua area, the Janesville dis- 

 trict, Racine coimty, the Portage district, and 

 the Superior district. The field work and the 

 soil analyses are under the direction of Pro- 

 fessor A. R. Whitson, chief of the soils de- 

 partment of the College of Agriculture, Mad- 



VNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS 

 At Tale University the salaries of pro- 

 fessors and assistant professors have been in- 

 creased by $49,000 from the alumni fund. The 

 salaries of full professors are to be $4,000 to 

 $4,500 and $5,000, based mainly on length of 

 service, but modified somewhat by university 

 responsibility and personal distinction. In 

 the case of assistant professors the maximum 

 salary is increased to $3,000. 



The newspapers have contained various in- 

 accurate statements in regard to the Wyman 

 bequest to the Graduate College of Princeton 

 Tlniversity, it having been at first exaggerated 

 and recently underestimated. The amount of 

 the bequest is, as originally stated in this 

 Journal, between $2,000,000 and $3,000,000. 

 All contests of the will have been withdrawn 

 or overruled. 



Dr. George Blumer has been elected dean 

 of the medical school of Yale University, to 

 succeed Dr. Herbert E. Smith. 



The following members of the faculty at 

 the University of Chicago have been promoted 

 from associate professorships, heretofore held 

 by them, to the rank of professor : Leonard 

 Eugene Dickson (rhathematics) and Robert 

 Andrews Millikan (physics). The following 

 have been promoted from assistant professors 

 to be associate professors : W. W. Atwood 

 (geology), H. H. Barrows (geography), J. 

 Paul Goode (geography). A. C. Lunn 

 (mathematics), has been promoted to an assist- 

 ant professorship. 



In the School of Mines of Pennsylvania 

 State College the following appointments 

 have been made: Mr. H. D. Pallister, M.E. 



(Case), formerly mining engineer with the 

 Chisos Mining Co., Terlingua, Texas, and 

 later instructor in mathematics. Case School, 

 has been appointed instructor in metallurgy 

 and Mr. "Victor Ziegler, B.A. (Iowa), M.A. ' 

 (Columbia), instructor in geology and min- 

 eralogy. 



Appointments in Swarthmore College have 

 been made as follows : George William Lewis, 

 assistant professor of mechanical engineering; 

 Scott B. Lilly, assistant professor of civil 

 engineering; Howard C. Potter, instructor in 

 engineering ; Herman Pritchard and John Pit- 

 man, assistants in mathematics. 



Dr. Guy H. Shadinger has been appointed 

 professor of chemistry at Dickinson CoUege. 



Robert H. Baker, A.B. (Amherst), Ph.D. 

 (Pittsburgh), has been appointed acting as- 

 sistant professor of astronomy at Brown Uni- 

 versity. 



Dr. BmD Thomas Baldwin, lecturer on edu- 

 cation at the University of Chicago, has been 

 appointed associate professor in education and 

 head ' of the School of Practise Teaching at 

 the University of Texas. 



Edith M. Twiss, Ph.D. (Chicago), has been 

 appointed assistant professor of botany in 

 AVashbum College, Topeka, Kan. 



Dr. Fritz Pregl, of Graz, has been ap- 

 pointed full professor of chemistry at Inns- 

 bruck. 



DISCUSSION AND CORRESPONDENCE 



a comparison or methods for estimating 



TAME 



Several communications have appeared 

 recently in Science regarding various meth- 

 ods of rating men in position of eminence. 

 Liming, the latest contributor,^ dwells par- 

 ticularly upon the value of the space and ad- 

 jective methods, considering these to be best 

 in point of efficiency. In the present article 

 I wish to mention several other possible meth- 

 ods for determining the relative positions of 

 men in point of renown. 



Since there is no fixed standard by which 

 degree of renown can be measured, " histori- 

 ometry " so called can never aspire to the 



' WciENCE, N. S., XXXII., 157. 



