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SCIENCE 



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of pedagogy, in forestry and in scientific 

 branches related to the industries of Ver- 

 mont." 



A GIFT of $50,000 to Cornell University by 

 Mrs. Florence O. R. Lang, of Montclair, E". J., 

 will be used in the construction of a new 

 building to house the shops of the Sibley Col- 

 lege of Mechanical Engineering. 



The will of Octavia Williams Bates, of 

 Baltimore, leaves to the library of the de- 

 partment of law of the University of Michi- 

 gan, a bequest of $20,000. A bequest of 

 $5,000 is made to the Detroit High School 

 Scholarship Fund Association, an organiza- 

 tion designed to lend money to graduates of 

 the Central High School of Detroit, so that 

 they may attend the university. A number of 

 other legacies for private and public purposes 

 are provided. When all these are settled, the 

 remainder of the estate is to go to the Univer- 

 sity of Michigan. Miss Bates was a graduate 

 of the literary department of the university 

 in 1877, and of the law in 1896. 



Dr. a. M. Hiltebeitel has been appointed 

 instructor in mathematics at the University 

 of Pennsylvania. Dr. H. B. Smith has been 

 appointed instructor in the same department 

 for the ensuing term, to fill the vacancy caused 

 by the temporary absence of Professor Evans. 



At the Massachusetts Agricultural College 

 Dr. Guy Chester Crampton has been appointed 

 associate professor of entomology. Dr. 

 Crampton is a native of Alabama. He gradu- 

 ated from Princeton in 1904, took two years 

 of graduate work at Cornell University, re- 

 ceiving his M.A. there in 1905, followed by 

 two years at the universities of Freiburg, 

 Munich and Berlin, where he received his 

 Ph.D in 1908. He was an instructor in biol- 

 ogy at Princeton from 1908 to 1910 and since 

 the summer of 1910 has been professor of 

 zoology at Clemson College. 



DI8GU88I0N AND CORRESPONDENCE 



J NUMERICAL NOMENCLATURE 



The recent proposal of Professor James G. 

 Needham' to use numbers and symbols as aids 

 in zoological nomenclature, which has been 



' Science, N. S., Vol. XXXII., p. 295. 



sympathetically discussed by Professor Henry 

 B. Ward^ and destructively criticized by Pro- 

 fessor T. D. A. CockerelP in the columns of 

 Science, has reminded me that one of the 

 earliest attempts at entomological classifica- 

 tion employed the numerical method which 

 Professor Needham appears to think likely to 

 prove useful. In the year 1766 (one hundred 

 and forty-five years ago) the Rev. Jacob 

 Christian Schaeffer, D.D., began the publica- 

 tion of an illustrated work upon the insects 

 found in the vicinity of Regensburg, his 

 home, and brought it to a conclusion in the 

 year 1779. The title of the work is given in 

 Latin and German as follows : " Icones Insec- 

 torum circa Ratisbonam indigenorum coloribus 

 naturam referentibus expresses. Natiirlich 

 ausgemahlte Abbildungen Regensburgschen 

 Insecten." The indices of the several vol- 

 umes show that they might have served as 

 models for Professor Needham. Opening at 

 randoift I fifid the following in volume I. : 



CiCINDELA, 



Sphinx. 



Fam. I. Al. angul. 



Fam. II. Al. int. eaud. simpl. 1 

 2 

 3 

 4 

 5 



Fam. III. Al. int. caud. pil. 



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