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Dk. George S. Graham has been appointed 

 second assistant pathologist and Dr. Edgar M. 

 Medler research assistant in pathology, at the 

 Boston City Hospital. 



Dr. Irving Perrine, professor of geology and 

 paleontology at the University of Oklahoma, 

 has resigned to become head geologist to the 

 Pierce Oil Corporation, of St. Louis, Mo. 

 With him goes Mr. L. E. Trout, at present 

 chief geologist of the Oklahoma State Geolog- 

 ical Survey. They will make their head- 

 quarters at Oklahoma City, Okla. 



Curator William 0. Mills, of the Ohio 

 State Archeological Museum, will leave for 

 Scioto County in two weeks, where he with 

 two assistants, H. C. Shetrone, of the mu- 

 seum, and William Holdermann, of Columbia 

 University, will superintend explorations in 

 the mounds of that vicinity. This trip is 

 taken by members of the Ohio State Historical 

 and Archeological Society each year. The 

 party which includes, besides a photographer, a 

 surveyor and a working force, will live in tents 

 during the summer. Data and relies will be 

 collected and afterwards tabulated and re- 

 corded by Dr. Mills. Bound copies will be 

 made of these records and placed in the mu- 

 seum. 



Dr. Eichard C. Cabot has been appointed 

 medical adviser to RadclifPe College. 



Sir Nathaniel Barnaby, the British naval 

 engineer, died on June 15, at eighty-six years 

 of age. 



VNIVESSITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS 



In honor of Dr. Wheeler, since 1899 presi- 

 dent of the University of California, the re- 

 gents have voted that the new classroom build- 

 ing to be begun in July, 1915, shall be named 

 Benjamin Ide Wheeler Hall. This white 

 granite building is being erected at a cost of 

 $800,000 from proceeds of the bond issue of 

 $1,800,000 voted in November, 1914. Plans 

 are being prepared also for an additional agri- 

 cultural building to cost $350,000 ; for the first 

 unit of a new group of chemistry buildings, 

 this structure to cost $250,000; and for the 

 completion at a cost of $400,000 of the uni- 

 versity library. 



Arrangements for an exchange of professors 

 between the University of Washington and the 

 University of the Philippines have progressed 

 to the stage where it is probable that Dr. 

 Horace G. Byers, professor of chemistry in 

 the University of Washington, will spend the 

 next year in Manila. In the event of his going, 

 Professor Horace G. Deming, a graduate of 

 the University of Washington, head of the 

 department of chemistry in the University of 

 the Philippines, will go to the University of 

 Washington for the year. 



The trustees of Cornell University have 

 elected Alexander M. Gray to be professor of 

 electrical engineering and head of the depart- 

 ment of electrical engineering in Sibley Col- 

 lege. Professor Gray will begin his work at 

 Cornell in the fall. He has been for several 

 years a member of the faculty of McGill Uni- 

 versity. The head professorship of electrical 

 engineering in Sibley College was resigned 

 by Professor H. H. Norris two years ago and 

 Professor Vladimir Karapetoif has been acting 

 head of the department. 



At the Carnegie Institute of Technology, 

 James Burt Miner, of the University of Min- 

 nesota, has been appointed assistant professor 

 of psychology. Louis L. Thurstone, graduate 

 student at the University of Chicago, and 

 Margaret L. Free, of Bryn Mawr, have been 

 appointed assistants in the bureau of mental 

 tests. Jonathan L. Zerbe and Katharine Mur- 

 doch remain as instructors in educational 

 psychology. Among the aims of the depart- 

 ment is the study of the psychology of indus- 

 trial processes and of the teaching of those 

 processes. 



Dr. W. C. Allee, who had charge of the de- 

 partment of zoology at the University of Okla- 

 homa this year, during the temporary absence 

 of Dr. H. H. Lane, has been appointed head of 

 the department of zoology of Lake Forrest 

 College. 



Dr. F. E. Chidester, assistant professor of 

 biology and in charge of the courses in zool- 

 ogy at Eutgers College, has recently been 

 promoted to the headship of a new department 

 of zoology, with the rank of associate pro- 

 fessor. 



