Febktjaet 24, 1911] 



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the lithium compounds prepared in the United 

 States in 1909 were extracted from these ores. 



The department of public health at the 

 American Museum of Natural History has 

 ■equipped a laboratory to serve as a central 

 bureau for the preservation and distribution 

 of bacterial cultures of both pathogenic and 

 non-pathogenic organisms, and particularly 

 of types of new forms and varieties. It is 

 hoped that the laboratories of medical schools, 

 colleges, boards of health, agricultural ex- 

 periment stations, etc., and those engaged in 

 biochemical work of all sorts, will furnish the 

 museum with cultures at present in their pos- 

 session, and the laboratory is now ready to 

 receive and care for such cultures. Only or- , 

 ganisms which have been identified and which 

 have a definite history are desired as a rule; 

 but in the case of rare species, like the organ- 

 isms of certain tropical diseases, this rule may 

 be departed from. The laboratory can not 

 undertake to maintain more than iifteen dif- 

 ferent strains of any particular form. Types 

 of new species and varieties are particularly 

 desired at the present time and as they may 

 be isolated in the future. The laboratory 

 plans also to keep on file descriptions of bac- 

 terial species in print or arranged in the form 

 of the standard card and will be grateful for 

 copies of any such descriptions. Descriptions 

 filed in the department will be carefully pre- 

 served and living cultures will be kept in good 

 condition, so far as possible, and will be sup- 

 plied at all times without charge to corre- 

 sponding laboratories and furnished so far as 

 possible and with a reasonable charge to 

 schools and other institutions which may de- 

 sire cultures. The laboratory, of course, can 

 not undertake to keep on the difficultly-cul- 

 tivable bacteria, such as can be maintained 

 only for a few weeks after isolation from the 

 body; neither can it at present supply viru- 

 lent cultures which rapidly lose their virulence 

 under laboratory conditions. It should, how- 

 ever, be able to furnish cultures of organisms 

 of all the ordinary types, which can be main- 

 tained under cultivation. Pathogenic forms 

 will be sent only to properly qualified persons. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS 

 It is announced that Professor Hans Meyer 

 has presented 150,000 Marks to the University 

 of Leipzig for the laboratory of experimental 

 psychology established by Professor Wilhelm 

 Wundt. 



The New Hampshire College of Agricul- 

 ture and Mechanics Arts will continue under 

 that name, the house of representatives of the 

 state not having approved a change to the 

 University of New Hampshire. 



A SCHOOL for forest rangers to consist of a 

 two-year course, the winters of which will be 

 spent at the university, and the summers in 

 practical work on the state forest reserves, or 

 in lumbering operations in the field, is pro- 

 posed to be started at the University of Wis- 

 consin. Outside the Pennsylvania ranger 

 school and those established by the federal 

 forest service in connection with some of the 

 far western institutions, no attempt has been 

 made to meet the demand for expert foresters. 

 It is thought that much of the work of the 

 course in forestry could be given in the pres- 

 ent departments of the colleges of engineering 

 and agriculture. The state department of for- 

 estry would probably need all the trained men 

 that the school of forestry could turn out for 

 a number of years. 



The newspapers report that following the 

 student disorders in Russia one hundred and 

 twelve professors have resigned or been dis- 

 missed. It is further said that the ministry of 

 education in order to attract professors in 

 other countries plans to establish temporary 

 Eussian schools of law in Berlin and Paris, a 

 school of natural sciences at Heidelberg and 

 one of medicine at Paris. 



It is announced that Dr. George E. Mac- 

 Lean has resigned the presidency of the State 

 University of Iowa, and that Dr. Edmund A. 

 Engler has resigned the presidency of the 

 Worcester Polytechnic Institute. 



Mr. Prank Howson, of the University of 

 Durham, has been appointed lecturer in 

 physiology at Sydney, New South Wales. 



