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of unselfishness lived only for their good and 

 for the advancement of the science." 



Eegistration for the new courses in public 

 health administration, offered by the Univer- 

 sity and Bellevue Hospital Medical College, 

 indicate that many health officers, both of the 

 "New York City's health department and from 

 other localities of New York State, are taking 

 work in compliance with the new requirement 

 of the ISTew York State Public Health Council. 

 Those connected with the municipal health 

 department who have enrolled for this work 

 now number twenty, while the enrollment of 

 those who have elected the correspondence 

 method for meeting the new ruling has reached 

 a total of fifty. The new courses, which were 

 first offered by the university during the past 

 summer, have been arranged in accordance 

 with the new regulation of the Public Health 

 Council, which has made it obligatory for 

 health officers to supplement their professional 

 education with further instruction in admin- 

 istering to the general health of the commu- 

 nity. For students who have previously se- 

 cured their M.D. degree, upon the completion 

 of one year of study, including actual attend- 

 ance at lectures and laboratory work, it is pos- 

 sible to earn the degree of doctor of public 

 health. 



From investigations carried on by the New 

 York State College of Forestry, at Syracuse, in 

 the basket willow growing section about Liv- 

 erpool and Lyons in New York state and in 

 the study of reports of basket manufacturers, 

 it finds that the bulk of the willow ware used 

 in the United States is manufactured in the 

 little town of Liverpool, just north of Syra- 

 cuse. The Liverpool shops use over 3,000 tons 

 of basket willow stock which is 75 per cent, of 

 the total stock used in the country. About a 

 year ago basket willow stock was bringing 

 from $20 to $25 per ton delivered at the Liv- 

 erpool factories. To-day, owing to the cutting 

 off of the foreign supply the prices average 

 about $30 a ton, and that in spite of the in- 

 creased local production. There are few in- 

 dustries using the products of the forests where 

 there is as little waste as in the basket willow 

 industry. The only part of the willow stem or 



cane that is thrown away is the bark. The 

 College of Forestry is planning to carry on in- 

 vestigations in the Eastern Forest Products 

 Laboratory to see whether the bark of the wil- 

 low does not have some use as a source of cer- 

 tain chemical products. The returns from 

 land upon which basket willow is grown are 

 larger than the returns from any crop pro- 

 duced on lands in the state outside of nursery 

 stock. Often land of little or no value because 

 of its wet condition can be used for the grow- 

 ing of willow and as culture is not necessary 

 there is practically no labor except at the time 

 of cutting in the fall. Cutting is usually car- 

 ried on in November and as the canes are 

 taken out they are tied up in bundles of from 

 50 to 100 each. At the factory the canes are 

 steamed, peeled and dried and are then ready 

 for use. In sections about Liverpool and 

 about Lyons it has been estimated that owners 

 of willow holts often take in from iifty to one 

 hundred dollars per acre per year over a grow- 

 ing period of 30 years. 



UNIVEESITT AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS 



A GIFT of $150,000 to Harvard University 

 with which to found a professorship in arche- 

 ology is contained in the will of Mrs. Eunice 

 Melles Hudson, widow of a former president 

 of the American Bell Telephone Company, 

 which was filed for probate here. 



On the recommendation of the minister of 

 public instruction, there were created by a 

 decree dated October 7, 1915, a chair of topo- 

 graphic anatomy and a chair of bacteriology 

 in the Faculte de medecine of the University 

 of Paris. 



The committee of inquiry of the American 

 Association of University Professors which is 

 preparing a report on the case of Dr. Scott 

 Nearing, of the University of Pennsylvania, 

 consists of the following : Professors Davis 

 R. Dewey, Massachusetts Institute of Tech- 

 nology; Henry Farnam, Yale University; 

 F. H. Giddings, Columbia University; Eoscoe 

 Pound, Harvard University; A. O. Lovejoy, 

 Chairman, Johns Hopkins University. 



Dr. Feederick A. Wolf, plant pathologist 

 of the Alabama Agricultural Experiment Sta- 



