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and Lower Forms of Plant Life." This medal 

 is awarded annually to a senior in tlie Univer- 

 sity of Wisconsin for quality and quantity of 

 researcli in preparing a thesis in physical or 

 natural science, or pure mathematics, or their 

 useful applications. 



Dr. Goldwatee, health commissioner of New 

 York City, has resigned in order to resume his 

 duties as superintendent of Mt. Sinai Hos- 

 pital. 



Edgar M. Ledyard, formerly assistant pro- 

 fessor of entomology in the University of the 

 Philippines, who has spent the last year in re- 

 search work in the laboratory of parasitology 

 of the University of California, has been ap- 

 pointed director of the Agricultural Depart- 

 ment of the United States Smelting Company, 

 Salt Lake City, Utah. 



Colonel Willum Hunter, M.D., assistant 

 physician to Charing Cross Hospital; Lieu- 

 tenant-Colonel G. S. Buchanan, M.D., first 

 assistant medical officer to the local govern- 

 ment board; Lieutenant-Colonel Andrew Bal- 

 four, C.M.G., director of the Wellcome Bu- 

 reau of Scientific Research, and Lieutenant- 

 Colonel Leonard Dudgeon, F.E.C.P., lecturer 

 on general and special pathology at St. 

 Thomas's Hospital, have gone to the Darda- 

 nelles, as an advisory committee to assist the 

 British Royal Army Medical Corps in dealing 

 with epidemics. 



The St. Louis University has fitted up an 

 expedition to make a study of tropical diseases 

 and biology in British and Spanish Honduras. 

 The party which left New Orleans on July 21, 

 was composed of the following : John P. Coony, 

 Ph.D., S.J., professor of chemistry; E. N. 

 Tobey, M.D., instructor in tropical diseases, 

 and A. M. Schwitalla, S.J., A.M., a student in 

 biology. 



UNIVEBSIT¥ AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS 

 Mr. C. W. Dyson Perrins, who gave £5,000 

 toward the construction of the University of 

 Oxford chemical laboratory which is nearing 

 completion, has lately offered to present to the 

 university a further sum of £25,000, of which 

 £5,000 is to be applied to the equipment of the 

 laboratory, and the remaining £20,000 is to 



form a permanent endowment fund for mainte- 

 nance of the laboratory and for the encourage- 

 ment of research and instruction in chemistry. 

 George Peabody College for Teachers has 

 received $8,500 from Miss Eleanor Cuyler of 

 New York City and Mr. Thos. DeWitt Cuyler 

 of Philadelphia, for equipping the Jesup Psy- 

 chology Laboratory. This amount of money is 

 to be spent for furniture, laboratory equip- 

 ment and psychological publications. 



Professor H. S. Jackson, of the Oregon 

 Agricultural College, has accepted the posi- 

 tion of head of the botanical department of the 

 Agricultural Experiment Station of Purdue 

 University, Lafayette, Indiana, to take effect 

 September first, as successor to Dr. J. C. 

 Arthur, who retires as a beneficiary of the 

 Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of 

 Teaching. 



Dr. E. W. Sinnott, of the Bussey Institu- 

 tion, has been appointed professor of botany 

 and genetics at the Connecticut Agricultural 

 College. 



At Yale University, Reynold A. Spaeth, 

 Ph.D. (Harvard, '13), instructor in embryology 

 at Clark University, has been appointed in- 

 structor in biology in Yale CoUege. 



The following appointments have been 

 made at the Massachusetts Institute of Tech- 

 nology: George Owen (M. I. T., '94), assistant 

 professor of naval architecture; Royal M. 

 Frye, A.B., instructor in physics; Charles H. 

 Calder, Horatio W. Lamson and Joseph C. 

 MacKinnon, assistants in physics; Elwyn E. 

 Snyder, Jr., assistant in industrial chemistry. 

 At Rutgers College research assistants have 

 been appointed as follows : 



Boland E. Curtis, B.S. (Oregon), soil bacteriology. 

 F. E. Allison, B.S. (Purdue), M.S. (Iowa State), 



Amos Phos fellow. 

 Selman A. Waksman, B.S. (Rutgers), soil bacter- 

 iology. 

 Carl B. Fellers, B.S. (Cornell), soy bean. 

 William S. Porte, B.S. (Eutgers), plant physiol- 

 ogy- 

 Orville Schultz, B.S. (Iowa State), plant breeding. 

 W. H. Martin, B.S. (Maine), plant pathology. 

 W. S. Krout, B,S., M.A. (Ohio State), plant 



pathology. 

 Homer E. Carney, B.S. (Miami), botany. 



