May 12, 1916] 



SCIENCE 



685 



room had been cultivated successfully in these 

 beds for two years. Five persons ate the sup- 

 posed new variety and enjoyed its flavor but 

 were almost immediately stricken with paral- 

 ysis, their lives being saved only by the prompt 

 action of their family physician. This indi- 

 cates that it is very unwise to eat or sell any 

 mushroom appearing in mushroom beds except 

 the ordinary cultivated variety with white 

 cap and pink gills. A description of this new 

 poisonous mushroom has been prepared for 

 immediate publication in Mycologia. 



The twenty-fifth session of the Marine Bio- 

 logical Laboratory of Stanford University at 

 Pacific Grove, Cal., will begin on May 22, and 

 continue six weeks. Courses will be offered in 

 general zoology and embryology. Provision 

 will also be made for students who are pre- 

 pared to undertake advanced work in zoology. 

 To investigators who are engaged in research, 

 the use of the laboratory is offered free of 

 charge. The laboratory will be under the gen- 

 eral supervision of Associate Professor J. 0. 

 Snyder. Further information may be ob- 

 tained from Mr. Snyder, or from the directors, 

 Charles H. Gilbert, professor of zoology, or 

 Oliver P. Jenkins, professor of physiology, 

 Stanford University, Cal. 



The German Congress for Internal Medi- 

 cine in Warsaw was planned for May 1 and 2. 

 Last year a similar congress for surgery waa 

 held in Brussels. At this congress the dis- 

 eases which are of particular importance at 

 this time, especially typhoid, typhus, cholera, 

 diarrhea, diseases of the heart and nephritis, 

 will be discussed. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL 

 NEWS 



The contest of the will of the late Amos E. 

 Eno is now on trial in a New York court. If 

 the will is sustained Columbia University will 

 receive over $7,000,000. 



Harvard University has received $10,699 

 from the estate of Miss Eebecca W. Brown, to 

 be added to the fund created by her brother, 

 Buckminster Brown, for the foundation of a 

 professorship of orthopedic surgery. 



Professor Charles H. Kichardson, of Syra- 

 cuse University, has given to the department 

 of mineralogy his private collection of min- 

 erals and rocks, which is valued at $5,000. 

 The collection is being relabeled and placed on 

 exhibition in new cases in the natural history 

 building. The collection will bear the name of 

 the donor. 



New York University will require two 

 years of college preparation as a condition of 

 entrance into the medical college beginning 

 in 1918. 



The degree of bachelor of arts will hereafter 

 be awarded to students of Columbia College, 

 whether or not they have studied Latin, the 

 degree of bachelor of science being abolished. 



Dr. David Starr Jordan, chancellor of 

 Stanford University, has retired with the 

 title of chancellor emeritus. 



The council of New York University has 

 appointed Dr. Samuel A. Brown to be dean of 

 the medical department of the university. 



The summer session of the University of 

 California, which last year enrolled 5,388 stu- 

 dents, for its session this year, from June 26 

 to August 5, will include among the visiting 

 members of its faculty B. M. AUen, professor 

 of zoology. University of Kansas; E. R. Clark, 

 professor of anatomy in the University of Mis- 

 souri; Moses Gomberg, professor of organic 

 chemistry. University of Michigan; D. S. 

 Hill, director of the Bureau of Educational 

 Research, New Orleans, and E. J. Wilczynski, 

 professor of mathematics, Chicago. 



In the department of natural science of the 

 Michigan State Normal College at Ypsilanti, 

 Dr. Bertram G. Smith has been promoted from 

 assistant professor to associate professor of 

 zoology. 



Dr. Ernest G. Martin, of Harvard Univer- 

 sity, will succeed Professor Oliver P. Jenkins, 

 as head of the physiological department of 

 Stanford University. 



Dr. Robert M. Ogden, professor of psychol- 

 ogy in the University of Kansas, has been 

 elected head of the department of education in 

 Cornell University and will take up his work 



