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after January 1. Associate Professor S. J. 

 Holmes has been granted leave of absence for 

 the current academic year on account of iU 

 health. Dr. E. Ruggles Gates, of the Mis- 

 souri Botanical Garden, has been appointed 

 acting associate professor in zoology for the 

 current academic year, and Assistant Professor 

 J. Frank Daniel has been made acting head 

 of the department of zoology. Professor 

 Eobert C. Ehodes, professor of biology in 

 Henderson Brown 'College, Arkadelphia, 

 Arkansas, and Instructor Harry B. Tocum, 

 of Kansas State Agricultural College, have 

 been appointed assistants in zoology. 



The new professional school of chemistry 

 of the University of Pittsburgh began its work 

 on September 27, under the deanship of Dr. 

 Eaymond Foss Bacon, director of the Mellon 

 Institute of Industrial Eesearch. A prescribed 

 four-year undergraduate curriculum leads to 

 the degree of bachelor of chemistry, and the 

 staff of instruction includes the regular faculty 

 of the university and fellows from the Mellon 

 Institute of Industrial Eesearch who are espe- 

 cially qualified in various theoretical and tech- 

 nical branches. This combination gives the 

 new school the opportunity to offer not only 

 the usual undergraduate and graduate courses 

 in chemistry and technology, but also special- 

 ized work under men who are experts in spe- 

 cific American industries. In addition, thirty 

 special lectures by prominent chemists and 

 technologists in the Pittsburgh district, have 

 been arranged for the academic year 1915-16. 

 Attendance at these lectures is required of 

 the student body and they are also open to 

 the public. The professorate of the new school 

 is constituted as follows: Alexander Silver- 

 man, M.S., professor of chemistry and head 

 of the department of inorganic, analytical and 

 physical chemistry; David S. Pratt, Ph.D., 

 professor of chemistry and head of the depart- 

 ment of organic, sanitary and micro-chemis- 

 try; Samuel E. Scholes, Ph.D., E. Ward Tillot- 

 son, Jr., Ph.D. and Edmund O. Ehodes, M.S., 

 professors of applied chemistry; Benjamin T. 

 Brooks, Ph.D., professor of chemical engineer- 

 ing; William A. Hamor, M.A., professor of 



chemistry; Henry A. Kohman, Ph.D. and 

 Harold Hibbert, ScD., professors of applied 

 organic chemistry; Leonard M. Liddle, Ph.D. 

 and E. Phillips Eose, M.S., professors of or- 

 ganic chemistry; Lester A. Pratt, Ph.D., pro- 

 fessor of inorganic chemistry, and C. 0. Vogt, 

 Ph.D., professor of physical chemistry. Thir- 

 teen assistant professors and ten instructors 

 complete the teaching staff of the school. 



At Lafayette College, Dr.- Beverly W. 

 Kunkel, of Beloit College, has been appointed 

 head of the department of biology, and Dr. 

 William Mackay Smith, of the University of 

 Oregon, professor of mathematics. 



Dr. Egbert Chambers, Jr., assistant pro- 

 fessor of histology and comparative anatomy 

 in the medical department of the University 

 of Cincinnati, has resigned to accept a posi- 

 tion on the staff of Cornell Medical College. 



Dr. Harold Kniest Faber (A.B., Harvard, 

 1906; M.D., University of Michigan, 1911), 

 formerly connected with the Eockefeller Insti- 

 tute for Medical Eesearch, New York City, 

 has been appointed assistant professor of 

 pediatrics at the Stanford University Medical 

 School. 



William Webb Kemp, a graduate of Stan- 

 ford and Ph.D. of Columbia, now professor of 

 education in the University of Montana, has 

 been appointed professor of school administra- 

 tion in the University of California. 



Dr. Maurice Parmelee is taking the place 

 of Professor A. E. Jenks, chairman of the de- 

 partment of sociology and anthropology of the 

 University of Minnesota, for the first semester 

 of the present academic year. 



Dr. Frank A. Hartman, of the department 

 of physiology in the Harvard Medical School, 

 has been appointed lecturer in physiology at 

 the University of Toronto. 



H. G. Plimmer, F.E.S., pathologist to the 

 Zoological Society, has been appointed pro- 

 fessor of comparative pathology in the Eoyal 

 College of Science, London. 



Professor Adolf Windaus, of Innsbruck, 

 has succeeded Professor Otto Wallach as di- 

 rector of the chemical laboratory at Gottingen. 



