NOVEMBEB 20, 1914] 



SCIENCE 



743 



January 25 — "The Manufacture of Porcelain," 

 by Ross C. Purdy, chief chemist of the Norton 

 Company, "Worcester, Mass. 



January 25 — "Glazes and Enamels," by Albert 

 V. Bleininger. 



February 1 — "Special Phases of the Glass In- 

 dustry," a symposium, by Chas. H. Kerr, Pitts- 

 burgh Plate Glass Co., Pittsburgh, Pa.; Dr. S. 

 E. Seholes, assistant director, Mellon Institute of 

 Industrial Keseareh, University of Pittsburgh, 

 Pittsburgh, Pa.; Professor Alexander Silverman, 

 professor of chemistry. University of Pittsburgh. 



February 8 — ' ' Special Methods of Pyrometry, ' ' 

 by Dr. H. S. StupakofE, director of the Stupakoff 

 Laboratories, Pittsburgh, Pa. 



February 15 — ' ' The Present Status of the 

 Chemical Technology of Vanadium," by Dr. B. 

 D. Saklat-Walla, chief chemist of the American 

 Vanadium Co., Pittsburgh, Pa. 



February 22 — "The Manufacture of Steel 

 Tubing," by F. N. Speller, National Tube Com- 

 pany. 



March 1 — "The Manufacture of Steel in the 

 Electric Furnace," by Professor Fred Crabtree, 

 professor of metallurgy, Carnegie Institute of 

 Technology, Pittsburgh, Pa. 



March 8 — "The Corrosion of Iron and Steel," 

 by Dr. D. M. Buck, American Sheet and Tin Plate 

 Co., Pittsburgh, Pa. 



March 15 — ' ' Catalysis, ' ' by Dr. M. A. KosanofE, 

 professor of research chemistry, Mellon Institute 

 of Industrial Eesearoh, University of Pittsburgh. 



March 22 — "Recent Developments in the Elec- 

 trochemistry of Organic Compounds," by Dr. 

 Harold Hibbert, research fellow, Mellon Institute 

 of Industrial Research, University of Pittsburgh. 



March 29 — "Industrial Applications of the 

 Phase Rule," by Dr. M. A. Rosanoff. 



UNIVEBSITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS 

 By the will of Dr. George S. Lynde, of New 

 York, Bowdoin College is left $10,000, Phillips 

 Exeter Academy $20,000, as a memorial to Dr. 

 Lynde's parents, and Tale University is made 

 the residuary legatee. The value of the estate 

 is not given. 



The E. H. Skinner Company, of Boston, are 

 now at work constructing a new $25,000 organ 

 for Oberlin College, which will be located in 

 Finney Memorial Chapel. The new organ is 

 the gift of Frederick Norton Finney, of Pasa- 



dena, California, and of Charles M. Hall, of 

 Niagara Falls. 



The University of Strassburg, like the other 

 German universities, has opened the semester 

 at the usual time. 



A MEMBER of the faculty of the University 

 of Louvain has been engaged to give courses 

 at the University of Chicago during the winter 

 and spring quarters, his salary to be paid by 

 Chicago. The name of the lecturer and his 

 field of work will be announced later. 



The master of Christ's College, Cambridge, 

 states that the university is taking in Belgian 

 students from all Belgian universities, and a 

 committee is endeavoring to organize syste- 

 matic teaching in French and Flemish, and 

 also hospitality. There are already some fifty 

 students and more than twenty professors in 

 residence. Though the resources of the com- 

 mittee are limited, no student need be kept 

 away by want of means. The master of 

 Magdalen states that there are a number of 

 Belgian professors at Oxford, including nine 

 from Louvain, that a Belgian student's com- 

 mittee has been formed, and that it is in- 

 tended to give facilities to professors and stu- 

 dents for free admission to university institu- 

 tions and lectures. 



Dr. Sidney E. Mezes, president of the Uni- 

 versity of Texas and previously professor of 

 philosophy at that institution, has accepted the 

 presidency of the College of the City of New 

 York, vacant since the resignation of Dr. John 

 H. Finley to become state commissioner of 

 education. 



Dr. James Eowland Angell, professor of 

 psychology and dean of the faculties of arts 

 and literature at the University of Chicago, 

 has been ofFered the presidency of the Univer- 

 sity of Washington. 



Dr. F. M. Barnes, Jr. has resigned from the 

 faculty of the medical school of the St. Louis 

 University, to become associate in psychiatry 

 in Washington University. 



The following additions have been made to 

 the staff of the chemistry department of the 

 North Carolina College: C. F. Miller, B.S. 



