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New York Post-Graduate Medical School and 

 Hospital. The director is Jonathan Wright, 

 M.D. (Columbia), and the staff includes — 

 tropical medicine, in collaboration with the 

 medical departments of the Army and Navy: 

 James M. Phalen, M.D. (Illinois), captain 

 Medical Corps, F. S. A., F. M. Shook, M.D. 

 (Michigan), P. A. Surg., U. S. N.; bacteri- 

 ology: Ward J. MacNeal, Ph.D., M.D. (Mich- 

 igan), Eichard M. Taylor, M.D. (Michigan) ; 

 pathology: Ward J. MacNeal, Ph.D., M.D., 

 Oliver S. Hilhnan, M.D. (McGill) ; biochem- 

 istry: Victor C. Myers, Ph.D. (Tale), M. S. 

 Fine, Ph.D. (Tale). 



Cornell University Medical College 

 opened with an enrolment as follows: Por the 

 degree of M.D. : first year, 32 ; second year, 23 ; 

 third year, 20; fourth year, 11. Special stu- 

 dents (work not leading to the degree), 19. 

 Doctors of medicine engaged in research, 9. 

 A total of 114. There is a loss in numbers 

 as compared with the preceding year which is 

 due to the fact that all matriculants for the 

 degree of M.D. now registered are admitted 

 under the advanced requirements necessitating 

 the presentation of a bachelor's degree in sci- 

 ence or arts, together with something more 

 than one year's work in physics, chemistry and 

 biology. With the exception of those first-year 

 students at Ithaca who are pursuing the com- 

 bined seven-years' course leading to the degree 

 of A.B. and M.D. all students now registered 

 in this college are graduates in arts, science 

 or medicine. 



Dr. Harlan H. Tore (Hopkins '11), for- 

 merly instructor in botany at the University 

 of Texas, has been made associate professor of 

 botany at Brown University, in charge of the 

 department. 



At the Colorado School of Mines, George 

 W. Schneider takes the position of professor 

 of mining and Carl A. AUen that of assistant 

 professor of mining. Both are practical min- 

 ing men and former graduates of the school. 



Mr. B. Tatarun, formerly instructor in 

 the University of Illinois, has been appointed 

 assistant professor of chemistry in the Uni- 

 versity of Arizona. 



Carl L. Eahn, Ph.D. (Chicago), of the 

 University of Pittsburgh, has been appointed 

 instructor in psychology in the University of 

 Minnesota. 



At the University of Texas Dr. N. H. 

 Brown succeeds Dr. A. C. Scott as head 

 of the School of Electrical Engineering. 

 Newly appointed instructors are: In physics, 

 Dr. H. L. Brown, of California, succeeding 

 Dr. C. L. Shuddemagen; in zoology. Dr. A. 

 Richards, of Princeton; in electrical engineer- 

 ing, J. W. Eamsey, of Texas. 



Dr. Karl Linsbauee, of Czernowitz, has 

 been appointed professor of the anatomy and 

 physiology of plants at the University of 

 Gratz. 



DISCUSSION AND COBBESPONDENCE 



THE NEEDS OF METEOROLOGY 



The session of the German Meteorological 

 Society, held at Munich, October 2, included 

 memoirs of general interest. Among these 

 that by Professor Moeller,of Brunswick, appeals 

 especially to Americans. His theme was the 

 same as that which I have so often presented 

 to American audiences, namely, " The Need 

 of the Establishment of an Institute for 

 Theoretical Meteorology." 



For forty years I have indulged the hope 

 that some intelligent American merchant 

 would show his appreciation of the successful 

 efforts of the practical meteorologists of our 

 unrivalled Weather Bureau, and would estab- 

 lish a school of meteorology comparable with 

 our great schools of astronomy, engineering, 

 etc. But now I fear that Dr. Moeller's ad- 

 dress may result in the founding of the Ger- 

 man Institute that he wishes, long before our 

 American establishment is under way. 



The money value of meteorology began to 

 be realized by American merchants when 

 Maury studied the winds and currents and 

 shortened the voyages of American clippers 

 by 50 or 100 days. The money value of the mod- 

 ern Weather Bureau has been recognized during 

 every storm and blizzard and frost and flood 

 since January, 1871. The future of aerial 



