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effects of the flood on Hat Creek are being 

 turned to good account, while many visitors 

 are safely climbing the peak. Although it is 

 possible that Vulcan is simply conserving his 

 forces for a future outbreak, the general indi- 

 cations are that he is closing up the Lassen 

 Peak branch of his laboratory for the season, 

 perhaps with the intention of giving a small 

 exhibit next spring when the snow melts." 



VNIVEESITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS 



Dr. W. S. Franklin has resigned from the 

 professorship of physics in Lehigh University. 



Dr. John Lee Coulter has been appointed 

 dean of the College of Agriculture and di- 

 rector of the Experiment Station of the West 

 Virginia University. He goes from the George 

 Peabody College, and will take the place of E. 

 D. Sanderson, who resigned about a year ago. 



Dr. Oscar Theodore Schultz^ formerly as- 

 sistant professor of pathology in the medical 

 school of Western Reserve University, has been 

 appointed professor of pathology and bacteriol- 

 ogy in the College of Medicine, University of 

 Nebraska. 



Dr. John N. Swan has resigned his position 

 in Monmouth College to accept the head pro- 

 fessorship in chemistry in the University of 

 Mississippi. 



Dr. E. L. Talbert has been appointed secre- 

 tary of admission in the University of Cin- 

 cinnati, also giving the courses in social 

 psychology. 



John Jenkins Buchanan, A.M., M.D., 

 Ph.D., professor of surgery in the school of 

 medicine. University of Pittsburgh, for the 

 past fourteen years, has resigned his active 

 teaching and has been elected professor emeri- 

 tus. Eobert Tablott Miller, A.B., M.D., for 

 the past five years a member of the staff of the 

 department of surgery of the school, lately 

 holding the position of associate professor of 

 surgery, has been promoted to the full pro- 

 fessorship in charge of the department. Dr. 

 Miller is a graduate of Amherst College and 

 Johns Hopkins University Medical School. 

 He held the position of resident on the sur- 

 gical staff of the Johns Hopkins Hospital for 



a period of six years, following which he was 

 elected to the position of instructor in surgery 

 in the Johns Hopkins Medical School, which 

 position he held for a period of two years, 

 prior to his taking up his residence in Pitts- 

 burgh. 



Dr. J. E. Schramm, assistant to the director 

 of the Missouri Botanical Garden and in- 

 structor in botany at Washington University, 

 has been appointed assistant professor of bot- 

 any in the New York State College of Agri- 

 culture at Cornell University. Dr. Lester W. 

 Sharp has been promoted to an assistant pro- 

 fessorship in botany at the same institution. 

 Other recent appointments in botany at the 

 New York State College of Agriculture are 

 as follows: J. Marshall Brannon, Albert E. 

 Bechtel and Frank B. Wann, instructors; 

 John P. Benson, Eobert Stratton, Lawrence 

 Erickson, George R. Gage and Harry E. 

 Knowlton, assistants. 



Mr. Howard B. Waha, who graduated in 

 civil engineering from the Pennsylvania State 

 College in 1909, and who has been employed 

 in engineering work with the U. S. Forest 

 Service in New Mexico and Arizona since 

 graduation, has accepted the position of assist- 

 ant professor of forest engineering in the 

 New York State College of Forestry, Syra- 

 cuse University. 



W. A. Ellis, a teaching fellow in the State 

 College of Agriculture at Cornell University, 

 has been elected instructor in forestry ento- 

 mology. He will give his attention to insects 

 affecting shade and forest trees of the state, 

 and will assist Dr. M. W. Blackman, forest 

 entomologist of the college. 



Professor E. Eobinson, of the University 

 of Sydney, has been appointed to the newly 

 constituted chair of organic chemistry at the 

 University of Liverpool. 



Dr. Hans Eeichenbach, professor of hy- 

 giene at Gottingen, has declined a call to Halle. 



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To THE Editor of Science: I was much in- 

 terested in the article by Dr. W. W. Ford, 



