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and severity of epidemic diseases, the super- 

 vision of the health of children between in- 

 fancy and school age, and the causes, preven- 

 tion and treatment of visual defects in school 

 children. In the section of naval and mili- 

 tary medicine, the subjects are : hospital ships 

 and transport of wounded, transport of 

 wounded in hill warfare, water-supplies in the 

 field, antityphoid inoculation, sanitary organi- 

 zation in the tropics, caisson disease and the 

 physiology of physical training and marching. 

 In the section of tropical medicine and hy- 

 giene the subjects to be discussed are plague, 

 beriberi, leishmaniasis and relapsing fevers. 



UNIVEESITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS 

 Washington and Jefferson College has 

 closed a successful campaign for increased en- 

 dowment, having raised the amount necessary 

 to secure $100,000 promised by the General 

 Education Board on condition that $400,000 be 

 raised by the college. On June 30, the time 

 limit set by the General Education Board, 

 after an active campaign begun on April 15, 

 last, with the Hon. Ernest F. Acheson as gen- 

 eral manager, over $440,000 was reported. The 

 entire sum thus added to the resources of the 

 college may go to the general endowment fund, 

 except $51,090 which represents the cost of the 

 physics building, a notice of which was pub- 

 lished in Science, June 27, 1913. 



The registration of students for the summer 

 quarter at the University of Chicago shows a 

 satisfactory increase over that of the last 

 summer quarter, when more than three thou- 

 sand students were enrolled. As usual, there 

 is a large representation from the southern 

 states. 



All records for attendance at the summer 

 session of Columbia University have been 

 broken this year, the total number of students 

 being 4,550, an increase of nearly 1,000 over 

 last year, when the registration was 3,602. 

 This is the fourteenth year of the session, 

 which began in 1900 with 417 students. Since 

 then there has been a steady increase in num- 

 bers, except in 1907, 1910, and this year, when 

 the increase was much greater than the aver- 



age. One of the reasons for the great increase 

 in attendance this year is believed to be the 

 improvements in the curriculum, especially in 

 the courses in English. The classes here have 

 been so large that it has been necessary to 

 divide and subdivide them. Evening classes, 

 a new thing this year, have also added to the 

 popularity of the session, as have also the busi- 

 ness classes. Besides this the entertainments 

 provided are more numerous and varied than 

 in any previous year. The attendance is al- 

 most as large as at the regular sessions of the 

 university and the dormitories are almost as 

 well filled. 



The government of India has refused to 

 sanction the appointment of three professors 

 in Calcutta University on the ground of their 

 political connections. The senate of the uni- 

 versity has passed a resolution objecting to 

 this action and public meetings of protest 

 have been held. 



Dr. George E. Fellows, formerly president 

 of the University of Maine, succeeds Dr. Al- 

 bert E. Taylor as president of James Millikin 

 University, Decatur, Ulinois. 



Dr. J. Frank Corbett, for thirteen years 

 state bacteriologist of Minnesota, has resigned 

 to devote his entire time to his work in the 

 department of experimental surgery in the 

 University of Minnesota School of Medicine. 



Dr. Frank D. Kern, after nearly ten years 

 as assistant and associate in botany to the 

 Indiana Agricultural Experiment Station and 

 part time instructor in Purdue University, 

 has resigned to become professor of botany 

 and botanist to the experiment station in the 

 Pennsylvania State College. Dr. Kern has 

 been a co-worker with Dr. J. C. Arthur in 

 the taxonomic, cultural and other investiga- 

 tions of the rusts, and assisted in the prepara- 

 tion of part of the manuscript for the Uredin- 

 ales in the " North American Flora," espe- 

 cially contributing the portion pertaining to 

 the genus Qymnosporangium. 



The following announcements and appoint- 

 ments have been made at the University of 

 North Carolipa : President F. P. Venable has 



