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plication. A home for alcohol and drug ha- 

 bitues, long agitated, is provided for in 

 another forest reserve as, elsewhere, is an in- 

 dustrial home for women. 



It is stated in Nature that the Italian arch- 

 eological mission to Crete, under the leader- 

 ship of Professor Halbherr, announces the dis- 

 covery at Cortina of a temple dedicated to 

 Egyptian deities, bearing the dedication by 

 riavia Philyra, the foundress. In the inner 

 cella were found images of Jupiter, Serapis, 

 Isis and Mercury, with fragments of a 

 colossal statue, supposed to be that of the 

 foundress. A little flight of steps leads down 

 to a subterranean chamber in which cere- 

 monies of purification were performed. The 

 excavation of the numerous prehistoric sites 

 in the island of Malta is being actively prose- 

 cuted under the direction of Professor T. 

 Zammit. The most important discovery is 

 that of a series of well tombs of the Punic 

 type at the Kallilia plateau, northwest of 

 Eabat. A large number of skeletons, with 

 pottery, lamps, spindle-whorls and a circular 

 bronze mirror, has been unearthed. A partial 

 exploration of the Ghar Dalam cave, eon- 

 ducted by Professor Tagliaferro and Mr. C. 

 Eizzo, produced bones of a hippopotamus and 

 a deer, above which lay a quantity of prehis- 

 toric sherds. The museum, by the bequest of 

 the late Mr. Parnis, has received a large col- 

 lection of books about Malta and numerous 

 antique objects. 



UNIVEBSITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS 

 It is announced that the scheme for the 

 establishment of a school of tropical medicine 

 in Calcutta is now so far advanced towards 

 fulfilment that there is every reason to hope 

 that it will be opened in the autumn of next 

 year. 



Professor Alexander T. Ormond has re- 

 signed the McOosh professorship of philos- 

 ophy at Princeton University to accept , the 

 presidency of Grove City College. 



Professor Alesander Smith, head of the 

 department of chemistry in Columbia Univer- 

 sity, who has been elected professor of chem- 



istry at Princeton University, will not assume 

 his new duties until the academic year 1914- 

 1915. 



The vacancy created at Vassar College by 

 the resignation of Professor Clark "Wells 

 Chamberlain, in order to take the presidency 

 of Denison University, has not been filled; 

 Associate Professor Edna Carter will act as 

 head of the department of physics for the 

 present year. 



At Lehigh University the following promo- 

 tions in the faculty are announced : George C. 

 Beck, to be assistant professor of quantitative 

 analysis; Sylvanus A. Becker, assistant pro- 

 fessor of civil engineering; Joseph B. Rey- 

 nolds, assistant professor of mathematics and 

 astronomy; Rollin L. Charles, assistant pro- 

 fessor of physics; Stanley J. Thomas, in- 

 structor in biology. The following appoint- 

 ments have been made: Ferdinand F. Hintze, 

 assistant professor of geology; Siegfried 

 Fischer, instructor in metallurgy; Wallace G. 

 Matteson, instructor in geology; Edgar C. 

 Weinsheimer, instructor in geology; M. S. 

 Knebelman, instructor in mathematics; James 

 B. Arthur, instructor in electrical engineering. 



At Rutgers College Stanley E. Brasefield, 

 Ph.D. (Cornell), and William Beverly Stone, 

 Ph.D. (Univ. of Va.), have been appointed 

 assistant professors of mathematics. 



L. C. Plant, who has been at the head of 

 the department of mathematics in the Univer- 

 sity of Montana for the past six years, has 

 resigned, to accept the position of head of the 

 department of mathematics in the Michigan 

 Agricultural College. He has been succeeded 

 by Dr. N. J. Lennes, of the department of 

 mathematics of Columbia University. 



Dr. Walter Kruse, of Bonn, has been ap- 

 pointed professor of hygiene at Leipzig. 



DISCUSSION AND COEBESPONDENCE 



BIT OF HISTORY 



In the issue of Science for August 15, 1913, 

 there is quoted from The Independent of fifty 

 years ago the statement that " Professor Wol- 

 cott Gibbs " had been chosen to the Rumf ord 



