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physiology of tryptophane; the metabolism and 

 chemistry of haemoglobin in so far as they bear 

 on its production in the animal body; the com- 

 parison of normal and pathological tissues as 

 regards their content of intracellular ferments. 

 The Physiological and Chemical Laboratories, 

 Cambridge. 



Frederick James Fitzmaurice Barrington, M.B,, 

 B.S. (Lond.), F.R.C.S. The functions of the 

 male accessory genital glands. University College 

 Medical School. 



John Foster Gaskell, M.B., J:5.C. (Cantab.), 

 M.R.C.P. (Lond.). The origin of the suprarenal 

 body in the invertebrates and lower vertebrates 

 and the function of chlorogogen cells in inverte- 

 brates. St. Bartholomew's Hospital Medical 

 School. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS 

 Haevaed IJNiVEnsiTY has received an ad- 

 ditional gift of $100,000 from Mr. Adolphus 

 Busch, of St. Louis, Mo., towards the erection 

 and maintenance of the Germanic Museum. 

 This sum makes a total of $350,000 given to 

 the museum by Mr. Busch. 



It is stated in the Yale Alumni WeeMy that 

 owing to the lack of room, notwithstanding 

 the great wealth of material, the work of 

 mounting prehistoric animals for public ex- 

 hibition at Peabody Museum has been tem- 

 porarily discontinued. The development of 

 the resources of the museum must apparently 

 await new building construction. This may 

 involve an entirely new site and plant in ac- 

 cordance with the university development on 

 the Hillhouse property. The building fund of 

 the institution, according to the last report of 

 the university treasurer, amounted to $1Y3,923. 



The Harvard University Catalogue shows 

 this year a total enrollment of 4,123 students 

 in the university exclusive of the summer 

 schools, Eadcliffe College, and the university 

 extension courses. The total number of stu- 

 dents is 7Y more than it was at the corre- 

 sponding period last year. The attendance in 

 the college is 48 less than it was last year, but 

 this decrease is more than ofEset by gains in 

 the graduate and law schools. 



Me. Clarence T. Johnston has been ap- 

 pointed professor of civil engineering at the 



University of Michigan, succeeding Professor 

 Emeritus J. B. Davis, retired on the Car- 

 negie grant. Professor Johnson was gradu- 

 ated from the University of Michigan as an 

 engineer in 1895, and received the degree of 

 C.E. in 1899. He was state engineer of Wy- 

 oming during the period in which were form- 

 ulated the irrigation laws. 



At a meeting of the trustees of Princeton 

 University on January 12, 1911, William Gil- 

 lespie, assistant professor, and George David 

 Birkhoil, preceptor, were made full professors 

 of mathematics. Ulric Dahlgren, assistant 

 professor of biology, was made full professor. 



DISCUSSION AND CORRESPONDENCE 



CARELESS CRITICISM 



WiTHEsr the past year a new book has ap- 

 peared, bearing the title " Recent Advances in 

 Physical and Inorganic Chemistry," by A. W. 

 Stewart. The book has received very favor- 

 able comment from the reviewers in various 

 chemical journals; and deservedly so, for the 

 author has selected certain striking lines of 

 advance and has pointed out the chief experi- 

 mental evidence on which these are based. 



There is one glaring error, however, which 

 seems to have escaped the notice of the re- 

 viewers. In all of the chapters, except one, 

 the author writes from the standpoint of the 

 record as shown in chemical literature, but in 

 this, the seventh chapter. The Cobaltammines, 

 he departs from his usual conservatism and 

 assumes the role of a caustic critic. 



After a discussion of the various views put 

 forward to explain the structure of these com- 

 pounds, the author plunges into the Jorgen- 

 sen-Werner controversy, defending very 

 earnestly Jorgensen's views and criticizing 

 with equal warmth those of Werner. On page 

 121, following a discussion of the points at 

 issue between Jorgensen and Werner, the au- 

 thor states : 



Now, since all these difficulties arise only from 

 the assumption that the ethylene diamine series 

 of compounds are exactly parallel to the tetram- 

 mino-eompounds, the simplest way out of the dif- 

 ficulty seems to be to abandon any such paral- 

 lelism. Jorgensen pointed out that in the case of 



