850 



SCIENCE 



[N. S. Vol XLIII. No. 1120 



ler (Wilde prize), killed June 9, 1915, well 

 known for his researches in ballistics. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL 

 NEWS 



By the will of the late Dr. J. William White, 

 trustee of the University of Pennsylvania, and 

 John Ehea Barton emeritus professor of surg- 

 ery, $150,000 is bequeathed in trust as a perma- 

 nent endowment fund, the income to be used 

 for establishing a professorship of surgical re- 

 search in the medical department of the uni- 

 versity. Other bequests were made to the 

 university hospital. 



A MILLION dollars will be available for use 

 by the Washington University Medical School, 

 with the opening of the new term in Septem- 

 ber, through the donation to the school of 

 ■$166,000 each by Edward Mallinckrodt and 

 John T. Milliken, of St. Louis. One fund of 

 $500,000, which will be known as the Edward 

 Mallinckrodt Fund, will be devoted to teaching 

 and research work in pediatrics. The other 

 fund of $500,000, which will be known as the 

 John T. Milliken Fund, will be devoted to 

 teaching and research work in medicine. The 

 funds will enable the medical school to employ 

 physicians in these departments for their full 

 time. The amoimt in addition to the Mallinck- 

 rodt and Milliken donations to bring it to 

 $1,000,000 has been given by the General Edu- 

 cation Board. 



A MOVEJIENT has been inaugurated to se- 

 cure at least $2,000,000 additional endowment 

 for Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia. 

 Mr. David Baugh, a member of the board of 

 trustees, and founder of the Baugh Institute of 

 Anatomy and Biology, has subscribed $100,- 

 000, provided that an equal amount is raised 

 on or before June 16. The money so obtained 

 is to be used for permanent endowment. 



The executors of the estate of Emil C. 

 Bundy, of New York, have paid over to Co- 

 lumbia University the sum of $100,000, for re- 

 search, work in cancer. 



Dr. Jean Piccaed, of the University of 

 Lausanne, Switzerland, has been appointed as- 

 sistant professor of chemistry in the Univer- 



sity of Chicago, beginning with the autumn 

 quarter of this year. Professor Piccard is of 

 the same nationality as the late Professor John 

 Ulric N'ef, who for more than twenty years was 

 the distinguished head of the department of 

 chemistry. 



Dr. Henry W. Waijdless, of New York, has 

 been appointed clinical professor of ophthalm- 

 ology at the University and Bellevue Hospital 

 Medical College. 



Wm. F. Allen, formerly instructor of his- 

 tology and embryology in the University of 

 Minnesota, has accepted the position of pro- 

 fessor of anatomy in the University of Ore- 

 gon Medical School, Portland, Oregon. 



At Vassar College Dr. Elizabeth B. Cowley, 

 assistant professor of mathematics, has been 

 promoted to an associate professorship. 



Sir James Alfred Ewing, K.C.B., F.E.S., 

 has been elected principal of the University of 

 Edinburgh, in succession to the late Sir Wil- 

 liam Turner. Sir Alfred Ewing, who is a 

 graduate of the university, has been for the 

 last thirteen years director of naval education ; 

 before that he had been in succession professor 

 of mechanical engineering in the Imperial 

 University, Tokyo; of engineering in Univer- 

 sity College, Dundee, and of applied mechanics 

 in the University of Cambridge. His scien- 

 tific work has been chiefly in the investigation 

 of magnetism and the physics of metals. 



DISCUSSION AND CORRESPONDENCE 



PUBLIC HEALTH WORK AND MEDICAL 

 PRACTISE 



To THE Editor of Science: To the state- 

 ment that no sharp line can properly be drawn 

 between preventive medicine as embraced in 

 public health work and curative medicine as 

 applied to individuals Mr. Harold F. Gray in 

 Science for May 5 has applied the term " falla- 

 cious." While it may in general be true that 

 " tmder out form of government, it is not pos- 

 sible for public health ofiicers to apply by com- 

 pulsion remedies to diseased citizens," it is also 

 true that in a democracy a large share of pub- 

 lic health work lies outside the field of arbi- 

 trary compulsion. 



