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hold a joint meeting on Friday evening, 

 March 10, at the Engineering Societies Build- 

 ing, 29 "West 39th Street, on the subject of 

 corrosion. The principal speakers will be Dr. 

 Burton MeCollum, Bureau of Standards, 

 "Washington, D. C, for the American Insti- 

 tute of Electrical Engineers and Professor 

 "William H. "Walker, Massachusetts Institute 

 of Technology, Boston, Mass., for the Amer- 

 ican Electrochemical Society. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL 

 NEWS 



The $1,800,000 of "University Building 

 Bonds " voted by the people of California 

 through approval of an initiative measure pro- 

 posed by. the alumni of the University of Cali- 

 fornia, for additional building work on the 

 campus at Berkeley, have been segregated by 

 the regents of the university as follows: Ben- 

 jamin Ide Wheeler Hall, a classroom building 

 with a capacity of 3,500 students, its exterior 

 to be of white granite, $700,000; completion 

 of the university library, of which the present 

 portion was built at a cost of $840,000, mostly 

 defrayed by the bequest of Charles E. Doe, 

 $525,000; second unit of the group of agricul- 

 tural buildings, $350,000 ; first unit of a group 

 of permanent buildings for chemistry, $160,- 

 000 ; new unit for the heating and power plant, 

 $70,000; furnishings and equipment for the 

 four structures first mentioned, $134,000. 



The contract for the new $60,000 chemistry 

 building for Throop College of Technology 

 was signed March 8, and the construction 

 work was begun at once, the contract calling 

 for the completion of the building in six 

 months, which will be in time for the opening 

 of the fall semester of 1916. This building is 

 of reinforced concrete and hollow tile con- 

 struction, and will consist of two stories and 

 basement, and contain the research labora- 

 tories of Dr. Arthur A. ISToyes, who will spend 

 half of each year at Throop College, com- 

 mencing next winter. The following appoint- 

 ments in the chemistry department for next 

 year have recently, been made, "William Z^]". 



Lacey, Ph.D., "University of California, in- 

 structor in inorganic and industrial chemis- 

 try; Mr. James H. Ellis, of the University of 

 Chicago and Massachusetts Institute of Tech- 

 nology, as research associate in physical 

 chemistry, and Ludwig Rosenstein, Ph.D., of 

 the University of California, who will become 

 professor in inorganic chemistry. 



The Committee on Agriculture of the 

 Massachusetts legislature has the full appro- 

 priation of $382,000 asked for new buildings 

 this year by the Massachusetts Agricultural 

 College. 



Messrs. Coolidge and Shattuck, Boston, 

 have been retained as architects for the new 

 buildings of Lakeside Hospital and the med- 

 ical school of "Western Reserve University, 

 and Mr. Abram Garfield, of Cleveland, for the 

 new Babies' Hospital. 



DISCUSSION AND CORRESPONDENCE 



MESOZOIC PATHOLOGY AND BACTERIOLOGY 



Paleontologists have not yet fully realized 

 the possible value of geological evidences of 

 disease to students of medicine. This may be 

 due to the recent development of pathology and 

 bacteriology or it may be due to the fact that 

 the paleontology of the fossil vertebrates, espe- 

 cially, is still in a formative state. It is a 

 fact, however, that paleontologists occasionally 

 see objects from the early geological strata 

 which show evidences of pathological or bac- 

 teriological activity. It would be of great 

 value to those interested in medical subjects 

 to have these objects discussed, since it would 

 be of undoubted value to an understanding of 

 the origin of disease. 



Few attempts, so far as I am aware, have 

 been made to bring to the attention of pathol- 

 ogists the earliest evidences of the occurrence 

 of disease, although in the literature of paleon- 

 tology one often fitnds figures of fossil bones 

 showing " exostosial growths." Broken ribs, 

 fractured limb bones, and injured vertebrae, a 

 part or all of which show evidences of patho- 

 genic conditions, are not uncommon. I wish 

 in this place to plead for the proper discussion 



