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Japan. Each of the seven universities con- 

 tributes five hundred dollars every other year 

 to send a representative from the United States 

 to Japanese universities. 



Preparations are under way for the centen- 

 nial commencement of Hamilton College on 

 June 17, 1912. Senator Elihu Root, chairman 

 of the board of trustees, has announced that 

 President Taft and Vice-President Sherman 

 ■will deliver addi-esses. 



Governor Stubbs, of Kansas, Chancellor 

 Frank Strong and regents William Allen 

 "White, Eodney A. Elward and Scott Hopkins, 

 of the University of Kansas, have spent thi-ee 

 days at the University of Wisconsin studying 

 its methods with special reference to the exten- 

 sion of its work in education throughout the 

 state. 



Dr. Thomas E. Hodges was installed as 

 president of the University of West Virginia 

 on November 1. 



By the appointment of Professor H. C. 

 Peffer as professor of chemical engineering at 

 Purdue University, this department has been 

 raised to the status of a school coordinate with 

 those of civil, electrical and -mechanical engi- 

 neering, and made independent of the depart- 

 ment of chemistry, which, however, will con- 

 tinue to give instruction in general, organic 

 and analytic chemistry. Professor Peffer will, 

 during the current year, give instruction to 

 seniors in industrial organic chemistry and 

 metallurgy, and direct the preparation of grad- 

 uation theses. Professor Peiier is a graduate 

 (B.S. 1895 and M.S. 1907) of Peimsylvania 

 State College and has been connected as chem- 

 ist or superintendent with the Carnegie Steel 

 Co., the Pennsylvania Salt Co. and the Pitts- 

 burgh Eeduction Co., now the Aluminum Com- 

 pany of America. 



At the University of Missouri the follow- 

 ing appointments have recently been made: 

 W. J. Calvert, M.D. (Johns Hopkins), pro- 

 fessor of preventive medicine; J. A. Eergu- 

 son, M.E. (Tale), professor of forestry; R. H. 

 Baker, Ph.D. (Pittsburgh), assistant pro- 

 fessor of astronomy and director of the Laws 

 Observatory; H. L. Kempster, B.S. (Michi- 



gan Agricultural College), assistant pro- 

 fessor of poultry husbandry; Lawrence G. 

 Lowrey, A.M. (Missouri), acting assistant 

 professor of anatomy; A. J. Meyer (formerly 

 of Wisconsin), assistant professor and superin- 

 tendent of the two-year course in agriculture; 

 Matthew Steel, Ph.D (Columbia), assistant 

 professor of physiological chemistry; G. S. 

 Dodds, Ph.D. (Pennsylvania), instructor in 

 zoology; O. E. Field (formerly of Nebraska), 

 instructor in physical education; E. L. 

 Gainey, A.M. (Washington University), in- 

 structor in botany; Paul Phillips, B.S. (Mis- 

 souri), instructor in manual arts; Ealph E. 

 Eoot, Ph.D. (Chicago), instructor in mathe- 

 matics; W. A. Tarr, S.B. (Arizona), instruc- 

 tor in geology and mineralogy. The following 

 promotions have been made : E. A. Trow- 

 bridge, from assistant professor to professor 

 of animal husbandry; C. B. Hutchinson, 

 from instructor to assistant professor of 

 agronomy; Horace F. Major, from instructor 

 to assistant professor of landscape gardening; 

 O. W. H. Mitchell, from instructor to assis- 

 tant professor of pathology; H. C. Eentschler, 

 from instructor to assistant professor of 

 physics; J. C. Hackleman, from assistant to 

 instructor in agronomy; L. G. Einkle, from 

 assistant to instructor in dairy husbandry; 

 Warren Eoberts, from assistant to instructor 

 in civil engineering. 



DISCUSSION AND COBBESPONDENCE 



chromosomes and assocutive inheritance 

 The difficulties that Emerson finds in the 

 chiasma type hypothesis are not, I think, as 

 serious as he states (Science, October 20, 

 1911); and since the hypothesis appeared to 

 meet the situation so exactly I ventured to 

 suggest that it might be worth consideration. 

 My brief reference to this postulated mechan- 

 ism (Science, September 21, 1911) seems not 

 to have been entirely understood by Emerson, 

 for which the brevity of the statement, or 

 failure to express myself clearly may be re- 

 sponsible, but by reference to Janssens's paper 

 (" La Cellule," 1909) I had hoped a brief state- 

 ment would suffice. Li fact, the only difficulty 

 of any weight raised by Emerson is not a dif- 



