May 12, 1911] 



SCIENCE 



725 



year as a minimum. The early cooperation 

 of organizations of the working classes and of 

 those working for the prevention of tubercu- 

 losis and alcoholism will be sought. 



The Weather Bureau has published for 

 many years the Monthly Weather Review, 

 treating of the general weather conditions 

 throughout the United States as a whole, with 

 occasional summaries of climatic data from 

 other and frequently little known regions of 

 the earth. Also there have appeared in its 

 pages many scientific and popular contribu- 

 tions from the best students of meteorology 

 and kindred subjects, thus making it one of 

 the leading meteorological and climatologieal 

 journals of the world. A considerable number 

 of the several monthly and annual issues of 

 this publication have accumulated in the files 

 of the Weather Bureau and it is thought they 

 would be a valuable addition to any library. 

 If any library desires copies of these publica- 

 tions, either for the completion of broken files 

 or as new matter of public interest, copies of 

 such issues as are available will be furnished 

 free of charge upon request. 



UNIVEBSITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS 

 Columbia University has received an 

 anonymous gift of $10,000 annually for four 

 years for surgical research, and a gift of '$15,- 

 000 for five years for the establishment of a 

 bureau to study legislative drafting. 



FuRiiAN University, the Baptist College of 

 South Carolina, has now in course of con- 

 struction a $50,000 science building which will 

 accommodate the departments of chemistry, 

 biology and physics with lecture rooms and 

 laboratories. Half the cost of this building 

 was supplied by local contributors and the 

 other half was the gift of Mr. Eockefeller. It 

 is expected that the building will be completed 

 and ready for occupancy at the beginning of 

 the next session, in September. 



Miss A. H. Cruickshank, daughter of a 

 former professor of mathematics in Aber- 

 deen University, who during her lifetime made 

 generous gifts to the university, has bequeathed 

 £22,000 for the endowment of a chair of as- 



tronomy, the establishment of a science library 

 and the provision of law prizes in the univer- 

 sity, and the residue of her estate for kindred 

 objects. 



The Drapers' Company, London, has granted 

 £6,000 to the Battersea Polytechnic for the 

 erection and equipment of a department of 

 hygiene and physiology. 



Dr. Henry Pike, of the University of Chi- 

 cago, has been appointed assistant professor of 

 physiology and Dr. Warfield T. Longcope, of 

 the University of Pennsylvania, assistant pro- 

 fessor of medicine in Columbia University. 



At Cornell University Mr. F. K. Eichtmyer 

 has been promoted to be assistant professor of 

 physics; Mr. C. W. Bennett, to be instructor 

 in chemistry, and C. K. Carpenter to be in- 

 structor in experimental engineering. 



The following promotions have been made 

 in the department of botany of the University 

 of Chicago : Charles J. Chamberlain, advanced 

 from assistant professor to associate professor; 

 Henry C. Cowles, advanced from assistant pro- 

 fessor to associate professor; William J. G. 

 Land, advanced from instructor to assistant 

 professor; William Crocker, advanced from 

 instructor to assistant professor. 



DISCUSSION AND COBEESPONDENCE 



' PHARMACOLOGICAL ACTION OF THE NON-ALCOHOLIC 

 constituents of ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES 



To THE Editor of Science: In a recent 

 number of Science' D. D. Whitney, in an 

 article entitled " The Poisonous Effects of 

 Alcoholic Beverages not Proportional to their 

 Alcoholic Contents," cites the following 

 sentences from my report on the pharmaco- 

 logical action of ethyl alcohol:^ 



The more concentrated, alcoholic liquors or 

 spirits are, from a practical point of view, the 



1 April 14, 1911, p. 587. 



= " A Critical Eeview of the Pharmacological 

 Action of Ethyl Alcohol, with a Statement of the 

 Relative Toxicity of the Constituents of Alcoholic 

 Beverages," by John J. Abel, pp. 1-169 in Vol. 

 II., "Physiological Aspects of the Liquor Prob- 

 lem," Boston and New York, Houghton, Miiflin 

 & Co., 1903. 



