July 23, 1915] 



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English journalists state that the British 

 Institute of Industry and Science, acting in 

 cooperation with the British Empire Exhibi- 

 tion Association, is promoting on a wide scale 

 an exhibition of the national resources of the 

 empire, which will be opened at the beginning 

 of next year in a handsome building to be 

 erected on the Aldwyeh site, where the exist- 

 ing offices of the institute are situated. The 

 purpose of the exhibition is to demonstrate to 

 the public, as well as to manufacturers and in- 

 dustrialists, the potentialities of the empire 

 as contained in its natural resources. The 

 various dominions and colonies are coopera- 

 ting in the scheme, and each colony will, with 

 the advice of the central body, organize its 

 own particular section of the exhibition. The 

 cost of the project will be about £50,000, which 

 has been provided for through the generosity 

 of the directors of the institute. The exhibi- 

 tion will, it is expected, remain open during 

 the whole of next year. 



UNIVESSITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS 

 The Medical College of the University of 

 Cincinnati has received several large dona- 

 tions during the past month. Mrs. Mary M. 

 Emery promised the university the sum of 

 $250,000 for a new Medical College Building, 

 on the condition that an additional $250,000 be 

 raised by July 1 for its equipment and mainte- 

 nance. At the appointed time, Dean 0. E. 

 Holmes, of the College of Medicine, an- 

 nounced that $250,000 had been secured. The 

 new structure will be located on grounds ad- 

 jacent to those of the Cincinnati General Hos- 

 pital, which occupies 24 buildings and covers 

 27 acres, and which offers unusual opportu- 

 nities for clinical instruction. The sum of 

 $30,000 has just been raised by citizens of Cin- 

 cinnati for the purpose of maintaining for 

 three years a chair of medicine in the Medical 

 College. The chair will be known as the 

 Erederick Forchheimer chair of medicine, in 

 honor of the late Dr. Frederick Eorchheimer, 

 who was for years professor of medicine at the 

 Medical College. Dr. Eobert S. Morris, lately 

 of Clifton Springs, New York, and formerly 

 of Ann Arbor and of Johns Hopkins Univer- 

 sity, has been appointed to the new position. 



On June 8, during the commencement week 

 at De Pauw University, the corner stone of the 

 new Bowman Memorial Gymnasium was laid 

 with appropriate ceremonies. The building 

 will cost over $100,000. 



The new Honan Biological Institute at Uni- 

 versity College, Cork, has been completed, as 

 we learn from the British Medical Journal, 

 owing to the generosity of the trustees of the 

 estate of the late Miss Honan, and forms a 

 handsome group of buildings, situated near 

 the plant houses which were the gift of the late 

 William Crawford, of Lakelands. The bio- 

 logical laboratory was a small building, much 

 too cramped for the teaching of the students, 

 much less for the research work which has al- 

 ways been a feature of the college. In the new 

 building ample room has been provided for the 

 study of zoology, botany and geology. There 

 are junior and senior zoological and botanical 

 laboratories, as well as research rooms, geolog- 

 ical and geographical laboratories, and a large 

 semicircular lecture theater, lit from the roof, 

 and capable of accommodating about 100 stu- 

 dents. 



The summer session of the University of 

 California for 1915 by June 30, nine days after 

 the beginning of the six-weeks term, had en- 

 rolled 5,420 students, which was more than 

 2,000 more than on a corresponding date the 

 year before and which was only 52 less than 

 the largest total registration at any one time in 

 the academic colleges and graduate school for 

 the fall or spring sessions excluding students 

 in the professional colleges. 



Among instructors appointed at the Massa- 

 chusetts Institute of Technology are : Barnum 

 B. Libby and George Rutledge, mathematics; 

 Walter A. Patrick, theoretical chemistry ; Clark 

 S. Eobinson and Frederic H. Smyth, inorganic 

 chemistry. Promotions include : Robert P. 

 Bigelow, associate professor of zoology and 

 parasitology; W. Felton Brown, associate pro- 

 fessor of freehand drawing; Harold A. Ever- 

 ett, associate professor of naval architecture; 

 Henry B. Phillips, assistant professor of 

 mathematics; Kenneth C. Robinson and Geo. 

 H. Clark, instructors in mechanical engineer- 

 ing; John E. Bird, instructor in mechanical 



