January 28, 1916] 



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and costly expenditure on entertainments and 



excursions. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL 

 NEWS 



Announcement of a gift of $250,000 for a 

 library for Amherst College was made at the 

 annual banquet of the Amherst Alumni Asso- 

 ciation of New York. The library is to be 

 a memorial to a graduate of the class of 1S67 

 from a brother whose name is withheld. 



A GIFT of $150,000 from a graduate of 

 Wellesley College toward the fund for a new 

 administration building is announced. The 

 donor does not wish her name made known at 

 this time. 



Preliminary plans for the chemistry build- 

 ing at Throop College of Technology, in Pasa- 

 dena, have been completed, and the architects, 

 Mr. Elmer Grey, of Los Angeles, and Mr. 

 Bertram G. Goodhue, of ISTew York City, are 

 at work on the complete detailed plans and 

 specifications of the building. The building 

 is to cost $60,000 and construction will be 

 begun probably within thirty days. The 

 building is to be ready for occupancy next 

 September, and Dr. Arthur A. Woyes will in- 

 augurate his research work in the new labo- 

 ratory about December, 1916. He has just 

 returned to Boston after a few weeks' stay in 

 Pasadena, which time was spent in working 

 out plans for the building, and for the devel- 

 opment of the department of chemistry, and 

 the special research laboratories. 



It is announced that a group of prominent 

 dentists of ISTew York City some months ago 

 submitted to Columbia University a detailed 

 proposal to create a dental school. The pro- 

 posal has the approval of the faculty of the 

 college of physicians and surgeons. Candi- 

 dates for admission would be required to pos- 

 sess the same academic training as students 

 entering the study of medicine at Columbia, 

 namely, the completion of two years of work in 

 an undergraduate college. 



Dr. J. T. Kingsbury, president of the Uni- 

 versity of Utah, has presented his resignation 

 to take effect at the end of the present acad- 



emic year. It will be remembered that the 

 administration of the University of Utah, 

 which led to the resignation of seventeen 

 members of the faculty last spring, has been 

 reviewed and criticized in a report of a com- 

 mittee of enquiry of the American Associa- 

 tion of University Professors. 



Dr. Kate Gordon, head of the department 

 of education, Bryn Mawr College, goes next 

 September to the Carnegie Institute of Tech- 

 nology, Pittsburgh, where she will have charge 

 of the Bureau of Mental Tests and give in- 

 struction in psychology in the woman's de- 

 partment of the School of Applied Design. 



At Yale University, Henry Laurens, Ph.D., 

 has been promoted to an assistant professor- 

 ship of biology in Yale College. 



Dr. V. E. Emmel, of the Washington Uni- 

 versity Medical School, St. Louis, Mo., has 

 been appointed assistant professor of anatomy 

 in the University of Illinois college of medi- 

 cine, Chicago, ni. 



DISCUSSION AND CORRESPONDENCE 



INSECTS IN THEIR RELATION TO THE CHEST- 

 NUT BARK DISEASE 



A RECENT bulletin^ of the Department of 

 Forestry of the commonwealth of Pennsylva- 

 nia discusses the relation of insects to the bark 

 disease. This paper bears the title, " Insects 

 as Carriers of the Chestnut Blight Fungus,'' 

 and as such tabulates a number of insects col- 

 lected and found carrying spores of this para- 

 site. Tests were made on some seventy-five in- 

 sects representing about twenty-five species. 

 Of these, fifty-two were collected while on 

 chestnut blight cankers. From these exper- 

 iments it was found that thirty per cent, of 

 these insects carried numbers of the pycno- 

 spores of this fungus on their bodies and that 

 the highest counts by far were obtained from 

 the spore-feeding longicorn beetle Leptostylus 

 macula Say. 



The citation of these results as proof merely 

 that insects are carriers of the chestnut blight 

 spores is entirely justifiable, but in drawing 



1 Studhalter and Euggles, Bull. 12, Dept. For- 

 estry, Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, 1915. 



