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the laboratory, recently made a trip abroad 

 investigating the European aeronautical labo- 

 ratories. His report forms publication 2,273 

 of the Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections, 

 and is the third dealing with the interests and 

 activities of the laboratory. It covers the 

 equipment and scope of the principal European 

 laboratories and shoves what steps are being 

 taken by them toward the perfection of the art 

 of flying and the science of aeronautics. Ac- 

 companied by Assistant Naval Constructor 

 Jerome 0. Hunsaker, TJ. S. 'N., Dr. Zahm 

 visited the principal aeronautical laboratories 

 near London, Paris and Gottingen, to study, 

 in the interest of the institution, the latest 

 developments in instruments, methods and re- 

 sources used and contemplated for the prose- 

 cution of scientific aeronautical investigations. 

 Incidentally they inspected many of the best 

 aerodromes or flying fields, and air crafts fac- 

 tories in the neighborhood of these cities, ma- 

 king copious notes on their observations. 

 Aeronautical libraries were also visited, and 

 comprehensive lists of the best and latest pub- 

 lications on this subject prepared for the use 

 of the laboratory library. The following labo- 

 ratories were examined: Aeronautical research 

 and test establishments of the British govern- 

 ment near London ; the Institut Aeroteehnique 

 de St. Cyr and the Laboratorie Aerodynamique 

 Eiffel, near Paris; the Gottingen Modelver- 

 suehsanstalt, in the city of that name, and 

 the newly organized laboratory adjoining the 

 flying field at Johannisthal, near Berlin, 

 known as the Deutsche Versuchsanstalt fiir 

 Luftfahrt zu Adlershof . All these establish- 

 ments, the author states, are devoted both to 

 theoretical and practical investigations, under 

 the direction of highly trained men who not 

 only serve as executives and initiate the re- 

 searches, but lend their personal assistance in 

 the various technical experiments. They differ 

 as to endowment; those in England and Got- 

 tingen being supported by governmental 

 grants, the others by private capital. The 

 laboratories near London, at St. Cyr and 

 Adlershof, are broad in their scope, but the 

 Eiffel and the Gottingen laboratories confine 

 their activities mainly to wind-tunnel experi- 



ments. The experimental procedure of each 

 is noted, and the buildings and apparatus of 

 the different plants are carefully described. 

 The purpose of the Langley laboratory is pri- 

 marily to plan and conduct such theoretical 

 and experimental investigations, tests and re- 

 ports as may serve to increase the safety and 

 efficiency of aerial locomotion for commercial 

 advance and national defense. 



UNIVESSITT AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS 

 Mr. Daniel Baugh, the founder of the 

 Baugh Institute of Anatomy, Jefferson Medi- 

 cal College, Philadelphia, has purchased and 

 added to his original gift, the premises 236 

 and 238 Pine Street, as an addition to the 

 school, and has given $5,000 for the improve- 

 ment and equipment. 



The new laboratory of medical sciences at 

 the University of Chicago will be located on 

 "the west side of Ellis Avenue, and will have a 

 frontage of approximately one hundred and 

 eighty feet and a depth of about fifty feet, 

 with wings at the north and south ends fifty 

 feet in width and extending back eighty feet. 

 The new building will consist of general and 

 private laboratories, research laboratory rooms, 

 class- and working-rooms, and also an assem- 

 bly room in the rear, thirty by forty feet, to 

 accommodate one hundred and fifty to two 

 hundred students. The building, one story in 

 height, will be of brick exterior. This new 

 laboratory will be occupied by the department 

 of hygiene and bacteriology and the depart- 

 ment of pathology. The work is already under 

 way, and it is expected that the building vnll 

 be ready for occupancy at the opening of the 

 autumn quarter on October 1. The cost of 

 the building will be about $50,000. The uni- 

 versity board of trustees has voted to give the 

 name of Howard Taylor Eicketts to the new 

 laboratory. Dr. Eicketts, who was connected 

 with the department of pathology at the uni- 

 versity for eight years, died in Mexico from 

 typhus fever, which he contracted while invea^ 

 tigating the disease. 



Ward L. Eay, B.A. (Oregon), M.A. (Wis- 

 consin), professor of chemistry and physics at 

 William and Vashti College, has been elected 



