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SCIENCE 



[N. S. Vol. XL. No. 1029 



Harry A. Curtis, assistant professor of 

 chemistry at the University of Colorado, lias 

 returned after a year's leave of absence, dur- 

 ing whicli time he took graduate work in chem- 

 istry at the University of Wisconsin, receiving 

 the degree of doctor of philosophy. 



Mr. George H. Chapman has resumed his 

 duties as assistant botanist at the Massachu- 

 setts Agricultural Experiment Station after a 

 year spent at the University of Prague veith 

 Dr. F. Czapek. 



Dr. William J. Milne, president of the New 

 York State College of Teachers in Albany 

 and author of mathematical text-books, died 

 on September 4, at the age of seventy-one years. 



Dr. Bela Haller, associate professor of 

 zoology at Heidelberg, has died at the age of 

 fifty-six years. 



UNIVEBSITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS 



Several citizens of Toronto have agreed to 

 contribute $15,000 for five years to enable 

 the University of Toronto to increase its re- 

 search work. 



The will of Mrs. Josephine A. Binney gives 

 $10,000 to the Women's College of Brown 

 University. 



The Henry S. Denison Memorial Building, 

 for Medical Eesearch at the University of 

 Colorado, has now been made ready for use. 

 It contains laboratories for research in bac- 

 teriology, pathology, physiology, chemistry 

 and clinical methods. 



It is believed that in Oxford and Cam- 

 bridge the number of undergraduates in resi- 

 dence next term wiU be reduced by one half. 



Dr. E. M. Strong, of the department of 

 zoology of the University of Chicago, has ac- 

 cepted the chair of anatomy at the University 

 of Mississippi. 



In the department of physiological chemis- 

 try of the Jeiferson Medical College, Eay- 

 mond H. MiUer, B.S. (Pennsylvania State), 

 and J. O. Halverson, M.S. (Missouri), have 

 been appointed instructors. Martein E. Eeh- 

 fuss, M.D. (Pennsylvania), after spending 

 three years in study abroad, has been ap- 



pointed research associate, and Olaf Bergheim 

 has been promoted to be a demonstrator. 



Maxwell Sillman, M.S., formerly instruc- 

 tor in physiological chemistry in Jefferson 

 Medical College, has been appointed instruc- 

 tor in chemistry in the medical school of Bay- 

 lor University, at Dallas, Texas. 



Among appointments at the University of 

 Montana are the following: L. S. Hill, assist- 

 ant professor of mathematics and astronomy; 

 Dr. Fred. H. Ehodes, of Cornell Univer- 

 sity, instructor in chemistry, and A. W. L. 

 Bray, a graduate of Cambridge and London, 

 instructor in biology. 



De. H. C. Stevens, associate professor of 

 psychology in the University of Washington, 

 has been appointed associate professor of edu- 

 cation in the University of Chicago. 



A. Vincent Osmun, assistant professor in 

 the department of botany of the Massachu- 

 setts Agricultural College, has been made as- 

 sociate professor, and E. A. McLaughlin, of 

 the same department, has been promoted to 

 the rank of instructor. 



Dr. W. p. Gowland, of the University of 

 Liverpool, has been appointed to the chair of 

 anatomy at the University of Otago, Dunedin, 

 New Zealand. 



DISCUSSION AND COBBESPONDENCE 

 A recent case of mushroom intoxication 

 Although it has been stated, in standard 

 works on fungi, that a common and other- 

 wise edible species (Panwolus papilionaceus) 

 sometimes has intoxicating properties, it seems 

 desirable to record the recent experience of two 

 persons who ate considerable numbers of this 

 species, unmixed with other kinds. 



They were familiar with this species and 

 various others, and had on several occasions 

 eaten it in small numbers, mixed with other 

 kinds, without noticeable effects. This is a 

 small, rather delicate, umbrella-shaped mush- 

 room, which is common on cultivated land, 

 planted to farm crops. 



Mr. W., whose narrative is here given, is a 

 middle-aged, vigorous man, strictly temperate 

 in his habits. He is a good botanist, and has 

 made a special study of fungi. The account 



