January 21^ 1916] 



SCIENCE 



97 



is Professor John Miller Turpin Finney, head 

 of the surgical clinic of Johns Hopkins Hos- 

 pital, Baltimore. It is modelled after the 

 Eoyal College of Surgeons of England and 

 has the support, it is said, of nearly all the 

 leading surgeons in this country and Canada. 

 " The college, which is not a teaching institu- 

 tion, but rather a society or a college in the 

 original sense," Dr. Bowman says, " now lists 

 about 3,400 fellows in Canada and in the 

 United States." 



Dr. Charles P. Steinmetz writes in the 

 Electrical World that the Illuminating Engi- 

 neering Society in 1916 celebrates the decen- 

 nial of its existence. This will be an occasion 

 to review and record what has been accom- 

 plished in the art and to initiate plans for 

 future advance, and the society therefore ex- 

 pects a year of greater activity than ever be- 

 fore in all the field covered by it. The illu- 

 minating engineer has to deal not only with 

 engineering, like other engineers — that is, 

 with applied physics — but his work includes 

 the problems and the knowledge of physiology 

 and of psychology, is of importance to the 

 ophthalmologist and to the sanitarian, and is 

 closely related to that of the architect, the 

 decorator and the constructor. It is one of the 

 broadest fields of hmnan activity, and it is 

 hoped that the coming year will enable the 

 society to produce a compendium of the entire 

 field of the science and art of illumination 

 and make it available to the practising engi- 

 neer or architect as well as to the ophthalmol- 

 ogist, the college professor and the student. 

 In celebration of the decennial of the society, 

 a mid-winter convention will be held in Feb- 

 ruary, with numerous technical papers, and 

 the feature of this convention will be the ac- 

 ceptance of honorary membership in the soci- 

 ety by the man who has made modem illu- 

 minating engineering possible, Thomas A. 

 Edison. 



In addition to the collection of 20,000 ver- 

 tebrate and 140,000 invertebrate specimens 

 brought from Africa by the Lang-Chapin ex- 

 pedition, the evidence in the shape of photo- 

 graphs by Mr. Lang and colored drawings by 



Mr. Ohapin is unusually varied and complete. 

 Seven thousand photographs help to set forth 

 the animal life of the Congo, as well as the in- 

 dustries, customs, art, ceremonies, amusements 

 and mode of life of the natives; while the eth- 

 nological value of the work is supplemented 

 by some seventy casts of heads which Mr. 

 Lang was able to make through the consent of 

 a tribe of Pygmies. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL 

 NEWS 



Mr. George T. Baker has made a further 

 gift of $50,000 to Cornell University. 



Barnard College, Columbia University, has 

 received $100,000 from Mr. James Talcott for 

 religious instruction. 



A new chair at the University of Pennsyl- 

 vania to be known as the Dr. Isaac Ott chair 

 in physiology, has been endowed through the 

 legacy received from the estate of Dr. Isaac 

 Ott, M.D., '69, of Easton, Pa. The legacy is 

 subject to a life interest of Katherine K. Ott. 

 Dr. Ott, who was a member of the American 

 Physiological Society and a fellow of the 

 American Association for the Advancement of 

 Science, had made important contributions to 

 our knowledge of the physiology and pathology 

 of the nervous system. 



Announcement has been made of a fund es- 

 tablished by Samuel Mather, of Cleveland, to 

 found a school for the graduate study of 

 tuberculosis as a memorial to the late Dr. Ed- 

 ward L. Trudeau. The school will probably 

 be located at Saranac Lake, If. T., and courses 

 will be offered to physicians who wish to be- 

 come proficient in the diagnosis of tubercu- 

 losis. Cooperating agencies for special study 

 will also be established in New York City. 



On the thirteen acres of land lying adjacent 

 to the campus which Western Reserve Uni- 

 versity has purchased, the erection of a com- 

 plete new medical institution is contemplated. 

 The present downtown school and hospital 

 sites it is said will eventually be abandoned. 

 Upon the same campus will be housed the den- 

 tal and possibly the pharmacy schools, which 



