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for September, there were omitted four de- 

 grees given by the University of California: 

 The recipients were: Hai-old Childs Bryant, 

 in zoology; Wilson Gee, in zoology; Harry 

 Noble Wright, in mathematics, and Fried- 

 rich Alexander Wyneken, in German. 



Dr. a. G. Pohlman, of Indiana University, 

 has accepted the professorship of anatomy in 

 the school of medicine in St. Louis Univer- 

 sity. 



Dr. C. L. Andrews, of the Johns Hopkins 

 University, has been appointed professor of 

 anatomy in the University of Mississippi 

 Medical College. 



Dr. Leonard W. Ely, of Denver, Colorado, 

 was appointed associate professor of ortho- 

 pedic surgery, and Dr. Kalph W. Majors, in- 

 structor in pathology, at a recent meeting of 

 the board of trustees of Stanford University. 

 On October first there will be opened a clinic 

 in orthopedic surgery in quarters which are 

 being fitted up for the purpose in the medical 

 school buildings in San Francisco. 



Ealph W. Curtis, B.S.A., who was for 

 four years assistant superintendent of the 

 Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University, 

 has been appointed assistant professor of 

 landscape art in the college of agriculture of 

 Cornell University. 



JosLAH Main, of the State Normal School, 

 Hays, Kansas, has been appointed professor 

 of agriculture for schools in the State Agri- 

 cultural and Mechanical College, at Still- 

 water, Oklahoma. 



Paul S. Welch, Ph.D. (Illinois), has been 

 appointed instructor in entomology in the 

 Kansas State Agricultural College, and as- 

 sistant entomologist of the experiment sta- 

 tion to fill the place made vacant by the 

 resignation of Dr. M. C. Tanquarry, who is ac- 

 companying the Crocker Land Arctic Expedi- 

 tion. Dr. John W. Scott, assistant professor 

 of zoology and assistant station zoologist in 

 charge of investigations in parasitology in 

 the Kansas State Agricultural College, has 

 resigned to become professor and head of the 

 department of zoology and parasitology in 

 the University of Wyoming. J. E. Ackert, 



Ph.D. (Hlinois), has been appointed to the 

 position in Kansas made vacant by Dr. 

 Scott's resignation. 



The following appointments to the faculty 

 of the Alabama Polytechnic Institute and 

 Experiment Station have just been made: 

 Professor Ernest Walker, graduate of Cor- 

 nell, formerly the head of the department of 

 horticulture in the University of Arkansas, to 

 be head of the department of horticulture; G. 

 S. Templeton, B.S. (Missouri, '11), who has 

 been for the past two years instructor in ani- 

 mal industry in the Texas College, to be head 

 of the department of animal industry; L. S. 

 Blake, a graduate of the University of Michi- 

 gan, becomes acting head of the department 

 of pharmacy as substitute for Professor E. E. 

 Miller, who becomes acting assistant professor 

 of plant chemistry in the University of Wis- 

 consin. Lucius W. Summers, who has been 

 assistant professor of animal industry for the 

 past two years, has resigned to accept the 

 position of professor of animal industry in 

 the Virginia Polytechnic Institute. 



Dr. J. Austin Bancroft has been appointed 

 by the governors of McGill University Daw- 

 son professor of geology. 



Dr. a. D. Imms has been appointed to the 

 newly created post of reader in agricultural 

 entomology at the University of Manchester. 

 Dr. Imms was formerly professor of biology 

 in the University of Allahabad, and after- 

 wards forest entomologist to the government 

 of India at the Imperial Research Institute, 

 Dehra Dun. 



DISCUSSION AND CORBESPONDENCE 

 THE data of inter-varietal and inter-specific 



COMPETITION IN THEIR RELATION TO THE 

 PROBLEM OF NATURAL SELECTION 



To THE Editor of Science: Biometricians 

 have clearly demonstrated^ that of the varia- 

 tions which occur within the limits of the 

 species some have far less chance of survival 

 than others. In short, the intra-specific death 



' See several papers in Biometrika and two gen- 

 eral reviews in the Popular Science Monthly for 

 1911 and 1913. 



