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3. "General Eequirement of the Graduate 

 School," Dr. C. M. Jackson. 



4. "The Thesis Eequirement," Dr. J. B. Johns- 

 ton; Dr. A. H. Logan. 



5. "Methods of Graduate Instruction," Dr. E. 

 P. Lyon. 



Evening Session 



6. Symposium on special requirements for the 

 degree of doctor of science in various medical spe- 

 cialties (including desirable pre-requisites) . 



(o) "Medicine," Dr. L. G. Rowntree; Dr. H. 

 S. Plummer. 



(6) "Pediatrics," Dr. J. P. Sedgwick. 



(c) "Surgery," Dr. J. E. Moore; Dr. E. M. 

 Beekman. 



((J) "Obstetrics," Dr. J. C. Litzenberg. 



(e) "Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat," Dr. P. C. 

 Todd; Dr. Carl Pisher. 



(/) "Nervons and Mental Diseases," Dr. A. )S. 

 Hamilton. 



(^r) "Pathology and Bacteriology," Dr. L. B. 

 Wilson; Dr. H. E. Eobertson. 

 A stenographic record of the proceedings was 

 kept and will perhaps be printed. If not, sev- 

 eral copies will be available for the perusal of 

 those interested in the development of gradu- 

 ate clinical instruction. 



The Forestry Club at the ITew York State 

 College of Forestry at Syracuse University is 

 giving for the season of 1915-16 the following 

 lectures : 



December 16 — "The Story of the Porest, " by 

 Frederick E. Clements, chief, department of bot- 

 any. University of Minnesota, and state botanist 

 of Minnesota. 



January 13 — "The Development of a Porest 

 Service for Minnesota," by William T. Cox, state 

 forester of Minnesota. 



January 18 — ' ' Close Utilization of the Prod- 

 ucts of the Porest," by W. E. Brown, of the 

 Berlin Mills Co., Berlin, N. H. 



January 27 — ^"The Birth of a Forest Policy," 

 by B. E. Pernow, dean, faculty of forest, Univer- 

 sity of Toronto, Toronto, Canada. 



February 3 — "Forestry and the Business De- 

 velopment of the Country," by Elmer E. Hole, 

 editor, American Lumberman, Chicago, 111. 



February 17 — "A Better Place to Live," by 

 Prank A. Waugh, chief, department of horticul- 

 ture, Massachusetts Agricultural College, Amherst, 

 Mass. 



February 24 — "Forestry in New York," by 

 James S. Whipple, former forest, fish and game 

 commissioner of the state of New York, Sala- 

 manca, N. Y. 



March 2 — ' ' The Vegetation of the United States 

 as Influenced by Glacial Action," by Henry G. 

 Cowles, of the University of Chicago. 



March 9 — "Modern Porest Utilization," by E. 

 S. Kellogg, secretary, National Lumber Manufac- 

 turers Association, Chicago, 111. 



March 33 — "State- wide Fire Protection for the 

 Woodlots and Forests of New Hampshire," by E. 

 C. Hirst, state forester of New Hampshire. 



March 30 — "Combating Insects of the Orchard 

 and Forest in New York State," by George G. 

 Atwood, chief, bureau of horticulture, New York 

 State Department of Agriculture, Albany, N. Y. 



April 6 — ' ' Shade-tree Work in Buffalo, ' ' by 

 Harry B, Filer, city forester of Buffalo, N. Y. 



The following lectures are schediiled to be 

 given before the Franklin Institute in Phila- 

 delphia : 



March 23 — "Eecent Developments in Electrical 

 Apparatus, ' ' by Harold Pender. 



March 30 — "Some Problems in Physical Metal- 

 lurgy at the Bureau of Standards," by George K. 

 Burgess. 



April 6 — "Use of Powdered Coal in Metallurg- 

 ical Processes, ' ' by C. J. Gadd. 



April 13 — ' ' Heat Measurements as Belated to 

 the Industries, ' ' by Charles W. Waidner. 



April 19 — "iScientific Eesearch in Eelation to the 

 Industries," by Charles P. Steinmetz. 



A BEQUEST of $25,000 has been made to the 

 Cleveland Medical Library by the will of Dr. 

 Benjamin L. Millikin, former dean and senior 

 professor of ophthalmology of the Western 

 Reserve Medical School. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL 

 NEWS 



The wills of the late Edith and Walter 

 Scull, niece and nephew of David Scull, for 

 many years a manager of Haverford College, 

 give $100,000 to the college. 



The trustees of Columbia University, at 

 their last meeting, decided to admit women to 

 the medical school as soon as the equipment 

 made the step practicable. 



At Harvard University assistant professors 

 have been appointed as follows: Grinneil 



