_JuNE 9, 1916] 



SCIENCE 



817 



The department of geology of Northwestern 

 University will conduct a geological field 

 course in the Lake Siiperior Region during 

 August. It will be devoted largely to a study 

 of the Pre-Cambrian rocks with some atten- 

 tion to the Pleistocene history. It is expected 

 that a day or two will be spent at the head of 

 Lake Superior where both the intrusive and 

 the extrusive phases of the Ileweenawan may 

 be seen, as well as ancient lake beaches, great 

 ore docks, etc.; one day on the Mesabi iron 

 range; and one day on the productive portion 

 of the Vermilion iron range. After this the 

 class will live in camp and will travel by 

 canoe through some of the lakes near the 

 Minnesota-Ontario boundary where there are 

 extensive exposures of various types of meta- 

 morphic and igneous rocks. These rocks will 

 be studied and small areas will be mapped in 

 detail. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL 

 NEWS 



At the annual spring meeting of the Gen- 

 eral Education Board $789,980 was appropri- 

 ated for institutions and projects to which the 

 organization contributes; The largest appro- 

 priation was for the medical department of 

 Washington University at St. Louis, which re- 

 ceived $250,000. This makes $1,000,000 given 

 by the board to this institution toward a total 

 of $1,500,000 for the purpose of placing the 

 teaching of medicine, surgery and pediatrics 

 on a full-time basis. Other appropriations 

 were: Coker College, Hartsville, S. C, $50,000; 

 Colby College, Waterville, Me., $125,000; 

 Eockford College, Rockford, 111., $75,000; fur- 

 ther prosecution of educational researches, 

 $50,000; Spelbnan Seminary, Atlanta, Ga., 

 $20,000; Hampton Institute, $25,000; Tuskegee 

 Institute, $25,000 ; Morehouse College, Atlanta, 

 $5,000; Pisk University, ISTashville, $5,000; 

 Mayesville Industrial School, Mayesville, S. C, 

 $1,000; equipment of normal schools for 

 negroes in ISTorth Carolina, $4,050; equip- 

 ment of cou:nty training schools for negroes, 

 $10,000; support of professors of sec- 

 ondary education, $34,130; state agents for 

 white rural schools, $40,800; state agents for 



negro schools, $34,500; educational research in 

 New Hampshire, $5,500; farm demonstration 

 work in Maine and New Hampshire, $8,500. 



Plans for the union of the Jefferson Medical 

 College with the University of Pennsylvania 

 and the Medico-Chirurgical College and hos- 

 pital have been completed. The Medico-Chir- 

 urgical College is to become a post-graduate 

 school, to be known as the Medico-Chirurgical 

 College and Hospital-Graduate School in Medi- 

 cine of the University of Pennsylvania. The 

 Jefferson Medical College will be connected 

 with the university, but will maintain its 

 identity. 



The University of Sheffield has received 

 $160,000 by the will of Sir Edgar Allen, $25,000 

 for the applied science department, and the 

 balance to be devoted to providing scholar- 

 ships, half of them to be reserved for the sons 

 of working men. 



Frank Adams has been appointed professor 

 of irrigation investigations in the University 

 of California. He will continue also his work 

 in the irrigation and drainage investigations 

 of the United States Department of Agricul- 

 ture. 



Dr. Arthur Harmount Graves, formerly 

 assistant professor of botany in the Sheffield 

 Scientific School of Yale University and in- 

 structor in forest botany in the Yale Forest 

 School, has been appointed associate professor 

 of biology in the new Connecticut College for 

 Women, at New London, Connecticut. Dr. 

 Graves will have charge of the instruction in 

 botany. 



DISCUSSION AND CORRESPONDENCE 



THE SECOND YEAR OF COLLEGE CHEMISTRY 



The selection of courses immediately fol- 

 lowing general chemistry is a matter of great 

 importance. The traditional method — old- 

 fashioned qualitative analysis and then quan- 

 titative analysis — is being questioned. 



It has long been recognized that qualitative 

 analysis is not an end in itself — that it is of 

 value rather in teaching advanced inorganic 

 chemistry in a systematic way. In the last 

 few years certain men have interpreted quali- 



