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Pearson, B.S., V.M.D., M.D., eminent as a vet- 

 erinarian, scholar and lover of mankind, 

 through whose breadth of vision and untiring 

 efforts these buildings were made possible; 

 whose appreciation of the needs of animal 

 husbandry kept him in sympathetic touch with 

 the farmer, and whose achievements will al- 

 ways be an honor to his alma mater, this tablet 

 is affectionately dedicated by the Guernsey 

 Breeders' Association." 



The will of Mrs. Helen C. JuUiard gives 

 $50,000 to the American Museum of Natural 

 History, $25,000 to Colorado College, $100,000 

 each to St. John's Guild and the Lincoln Hos- 

 pital, and $50,000 to the New York Ortho- 

 pedic Hospital. 



The Guggenheim brothers, associated as M. 

 Guggenheim Sons and Co. and in the Amer- 

 ican Smelting and Eefining Company, have 

 added $165,000 to their donations to Moimt 

 Sinai Hospital, making their total gifts in 

 memory of their parents $665,000. 



Announcement is made of a gift to the Johns 

 Hopkins Hospital of the sum of $95,000 by Dr. 

 Kenneth Dows, of New York. The money is 

 to be devoted to the investigation of tubercu- 

 losis and the better teaching of physicians and 

 students in the recognition and management 

 of the disease and the care of the patients who 

 seek treatment for it at the hospital. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL 



NEWS 



Members of the Du Pont family, who are 

 almmni of the Massachusetts Institute of Tech- 

 nology, have given $800,000 for the extension 

 and maintenance of the new buildings. Four 

 other alumni — Charles Hayden, C. A. Stone, 

 E. A. "Webster and Edward B. Adams — have 

 subscribed sums amounting to $200,000. It is 

 understood that the anonymous donor who has 

 already made large gifts to the institute has 

 undertaken to give five dollars for each three 

 dollars subscribed by the alumni during the 

 present year. 



It is planned to hold the annual meeting of 

 the American Association of University Pro- 

 fessors in New York City on Friday and 

 Saturday, December 30 and 31. Further de- 

 tails will be published in the October number 

 of the Bulletin of the association. 



Dr. Walter Eugene Gareey, for some time 

 connected with the department of physiology 

 of the Washington University, St. Louis, Mis- 

 souri, has been elected to the chair of physiol- 

 ogy in the college of medicine of Tulane Uni- 

 versity of Louisiana. 



Professor James E. Norris, head of the 

 department of chemistry at Vanderbilt Uni- 

 versity, Nashville, Tenn., has resigned to ac- 

 cept a professorship of general chemistry at 

 the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. 

 He will be immediately associated with the 

 instruction to be given in the fourth and fifth 

 years of the new course in chemical engineer- 

 ing just established. Professor Frank H. 

 Thorp, of the institute, has resigned his assist- 

 ant professorship of industrial chemistry, and 

 expects to devote himself in the immediate 

 future to private business. 



Dr. Ross Aiken Gortner, from 1909 to 1914, 

 resident investigator in biological chemistry at 

 the Station for Experimental Evolution of the 

 Carnegie Institution and since that time asso- 

 ciate professor of soil chemistry in the division 

 of soils of the University of Minnesota, will 

 transfer, on August 1, to the division of agri- 

 cultural bio-chemistry in the same institution, 

 with the title of associate professor of agricul- 

 tural bio-chemistry, in charge of the section of 

 bio-chemical research. 



Leslie Alva Kenoyer, Ph.D. in botany from 

 the University of Chicago, has been appointed 

 to a professorship in biology at Ewing Chris- 

 tian College, Allahabad, India, and is sailing 

 from Vancouver on June 29. 



DISCUSSION AND CORRESPONDENCE 



THE ACCEPTED FACTS OF DYNAMICS 



Of those who have contributed to the recent 

 discussion in Science concerning the methods 

 of presenting the laws of dynamics, all would 



