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their development and yet protect the inter- 

 ests of the public. 



The Medical Record states that the speci- 

 mens added to the Hunterian Museum dur- 

 ing the last twelve months include an im- 

 portant collection illustrating cancer in mice, 

 presented by the Imperial Eeseareh Fund. 

 Sir Henry Butlin has given his drawings 

 showing the appearances of this disease and 

 conditions which may be mistaken for it. 

 The tuberculosis commission has given a 

 series of specimens showing the experimental 

 production of that disease. Additions have 

 also been made to the pathological and gyne- 

 cological collections. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS 

 Me. John G. Aechbold has made a further 

 gift of $40,000 to Syracuse University. 



Governor Dix has approved two bills passed 

 by the recent New York Legislature, one ap- 

 propriating $140,000 for the Oswego Normal 

 School, and one appropriating $50,000 for an 

 Agricultural College, Cobleskill. 



Upon recommendation of President Hutch- 

 ins, of the University of Michigan, a com- 

 mittee consisting of three members of the 

 board of regents, and five members chosen 

 from the literary, medical and engineering 

 faculties, has been appointed to make recom- 

 mendations concerning a thorough reorganiza- 

 tion of the graduate school. Also upon the 

 president's recommendation, a resolution has 

 passed the board of regents which makes it 

 the duty of the committee of the board for 

 each department acting with the president and 

 the dean of the department to examine into 

 the record of each member of the teaching 

 force not later than February of each year 

 " with a view of ascertaining what each mem- 

 ber of said force is accomplishing in the field 

 of his specialty, and as to the effectiveness of 

 each as an instructor. The object is that the 

 board may have the data for its guidance and 

 information in regard to the question of pro- 

 motion and retention in service of the mem- 

 bers of the different faculties." 



The medical school in Shanghai will open 

 its doors in February, 1912, under the au- 

 spices of the Harvard Medical School. Dr. 

 Martin E. Edwards will be the head and will 

 have a corps of fifteen assistants, most of them 

 Harvard graduates. 



The following changes in the teaching force 

 of the medical department of the University 

 of Pennsylvania are announced in the Journal 

 of the American Medical Association: Dr. G. 

 T. Thomas to be associate professor of applied 

 anatomy; Dr. George William Norris to be- 

 come assistant professor of medicine in place 

 of the late Dr. Aloysius O. J. Kelly; Drs. 

 Joseph Eex Hobensack, William E. Quicksall, 

 Penn-Gaskell Skillern and Nate Ginsburg to 

 become assistant demonstrators in anatomy; 

 Dr. Oscar H. Plant to become demonstrator 

 of pharmacology; Dr. James H. Austin, dem- 

 onstrator in pathology, to become associate in 

 research medicine; Dr. A. B. Eisenbrey, asso- 

 ciate in research medicine, to become in- 

 structor in surgery; Dr. James S. Hickey, 

 absent on leave, will resume duty as assistant 

 in physiology. 



Professor J. I. D. Hinds, of the Peabody 

 College, Nashville, has been elected professor 

 of chemistry at Cumberland University. 



Dr. Herman M. Abler has been appointed 

 instructor in mental diseases at the Harvard 

 Medical School, and will be no longer oiScially 

 connected with the department of pathology 

 or neuro-pathology. He will retain the posi- 

 tion of pathologist at the Danvers State Hos- 

 pital. 



At the New Mexico College of Agriculture 

 and Mechanic Arts Mr. H. S. Hammond, as- 

 sistant professor of biology, has been advanced 

 to be associate professor and acting head of 

 the department to fill the vacancy caused by 

 the resignation of Professor E. 0. Wooton, 

 who enters the government service. Mr. D. E. 

 Merrill, of the State University of Iowa, has 

 been appointed assistant professor in the de- 

 partment. 



Mr. Augustus L. Barker, M.Sc. (Ala- 

 bama), has been appointed instructor in biol- 



