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SCIENCE 



lN. S. Vol. XL. No. 1031 



Mr. Egbert Brodie Forman, of Liverpool, 

 has bequeathed £10,000 to the University of 

 Liverpool. 



Professor E. du Bois-Eaymond, -writing in 

 the Berliner Tagehlatt, as quoted in the N. T. 

 Evening Post, says that from Berlin Univer- 

 sity 236 lecturers, nearly half the total num- 

 ber, are serving their country, either volun- 

 tarily or in obedience to the lavf. The medical 

 faculty furnishes 133 men, presumably for the 

 medical service of the army. 



Oxford and Cambridge Universities are 

 opening as usual, but at Cambridge a hospital 

 for the care of wounded in war has been organ- 

 ized on a large scale; Downing College is 

 garrisoned by a hundred nurses, the Medical 

 Schools are housing a contingent, and a wing 

 of the Leys School, the Cloister Court of 

 Trinity and Pembroke College are prepared 

 for the reception of military patients. At 

 Oxford 600 beds have been placed in the 

 Examination Schools. 



A committee connected with Oxford Uni- 

 versity has been formed, with the approval of 

 the Belgian Minister, for the purpose of offer- 

 ing hospitality to professors of Louvain and 

 their families. This committee is composed of 

 the vice-chancellor, the principal of Brasenose 

 College, Sir William Osier, Mrs. W. Max 

 MuUer and Miss Price. 



Dr. William H. Seemann has been elected 

 dean of the faculty of Tulane University 

 School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, and 

 the following appointments to the faculty have 

 been made : Dr. Abraham L. Metz, professor of 

 chemistry; Dr. Andrew G. Friedrichs, pro- 

 fessor of oral hygiene; Dr. Isadore Dyer, pro- 

 fessor of skin diseases ; Dr. Edouard M. Dupa- 

 quier, professor of tropical medicine and acute 

 infectious diseases; Dr. Charles C. Bass, pro- 

 fessor of experimental medicine and director 

 of the laboratories of clinical medicine, and 

 Dr. Joseph D. Weis, professor of tropical 

 medicine. 



Professor Bristol, of the department of 

 bacteriology in the College of Medicine of 



Syracuse University, has resigned and gone to 

 North Dakota. In his place is Dr. Oliver 

 Wendell Holmes Mitchell from the depart- 

 ment of medicine of the University of Mis- 

 souri, and as his assistant Mr. Ealph E. 

 Simmons, A.M., also from the University of 

 Missouri. Dr. P. M. Meader, associate pro- 

 fessor of preventive medicine, has accepted the 

 position as director of the division of commu- 

 nicable diseases in the New York State De- 

 partment of Public Health. He has, however, 

 retained his position as head of this depart- 

 ment and there has been secured as his assist- 

 ant Dr. Edward D. Clark, for the last three 

 years connected with the health department 

 of Buffalo. Dr. Howard L. Van Winkle, 

 assistant in the Municipal Department of 

 Public Health, has been made instructor in 

 this department and will conduct the work in 

 laboratory diagnosis in the municipal labo- 

 ratories. 



Edwin Burket Twitmter, Ph.D., has been 

 promoted from assistant professor to be pro- 

 fessor of psychology at the University of Penn- 

 sylvania. Professor Twitmyer is also assistant 

 director of the laboratory of psychology. 

 Other promotions in the same department are : 

 Francis N. Maxfield, Ph.D., from instructor to 

 assistant professor of psychology; Dr. David 

 Mitchell and Mr. Frank H. Eeiter, to be 

 instructors in psychology. Assistant Professor 

 Maxfield will continue, as last year, to be 

 assistant director of the psychological clinic. 



Elijah Swift, A.B. (Harvard), Ph.D. 

 (Gottingen), of Princeton University, has been 

 appointed Williams professor of mathematics 

 at the University of Vermont. 



Halset J. Bagg, B.S. (Columbia, '14), has 

 been appointed instructor in zoology in New 

 York University. 



DISCUSSION AND COSSESPONDENCE 



THE CAENEGIE foundation FOR TEACHERS 



A SUGGESTION 



Considerable criticism has been raised in 

 this journal in regard to the method of admin- 

 istration of the pension system for teachers, 

 established by Mr. Carnegie. The purpose 



