October 10, 1913] 



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partment of mechanical engineering of the 

 Pennsylvania State College and, during the 

 past year, consulting engineer in New York 

 City, professor of experimental mechanical 

 engineering; A. C Willard, sanitary and heat- 

 ing engineer of the United States War De- 

 partment, assistant professor of heating and 

 ventilation ; E. A. Holbrook, professor of min- 

 ing engineering and metallurgy at the Nova 

 Scotia Technical College, Halifax, assistant 

 professor of mining engineering; J. I. Parcel, 

 assistant professor of structural engineering at 

 the University of Minnesota, assistant pro- 

 fessor of structural engineering; W. M. Wil- 

 son, chief designer vrith the Strauss Bascule 

 Bridge Company of Chicago, assistant pro- 

 fessor of structural engineering; P. S. Biegler, 

 professor of electrical engineering in the Uni- 

 versity of Montana, associate in electrical 

 engineering; S. O. Andrus, field assistant of 

 the U. S. and State Geological Surveys and of 

 the department of mining engineering, asso- 

 ciate in mining engineering, and A. E. Knight, 

 instructor in electrical engineering at the Uni- 

 versity of Pennsylvania, instructor in electrical 

 engineering. 



The faculty of the College of Agriculture 

 and Mechanic Arts of Porto Rico has changes 

 this year as follows : Mr. D. T. Griswold, ani- 

 mal husbandryman, has resigned. His present 

 address is College Station, Texas. The following 

 are additions to the faculty: Professor Hig- 

 gins, horticulture; Dr. Fredholm, agronomy; 

 Professor Ham, manual training; Professor 

 MacMillan, manual training; Professor Staf- 

 ford, mathematics; Miss Baco, mathematics. 



Mr. Fred D. Peomme, a graduate of the 

 South Dakota State College, and for the last 

 two years a student and assistant at Columbia 

 University, has become assistant in the botan- 

 ical department of the Indiana Experiment 

 Station. Mr. H. C. Travelbee, a graduate of 

 Purdue University, has also become assistant 

 in the same department. The two positions 

 were vacated in July by Dr. P. D. Kern and 

 Mr. J. B. Demaree, who are now at the Penn- 

 sylvania State College. 



Dr. Fanny Cook Gates, formerly professor 

 of physics at Goucher College, Baltimore, has 



been appointed dean of women at Grinnell 

 College, Iowa, with a full professorship in 

 physics. 



Dr. Frank Dunn Kern has been elected 

 professor of botany at the Pennsylvania State 

 College. 



The following new appointments have been 

 made at the University of Pittsburgh for the 

 coming year: College: John M. Mecklin, 

 Ph.D., Leipzig, formerly professor of phi- 

 losophy at Lafayette College, profesor of phi- 

 losophy; W. Paul Webber, Ph.D., University 

 of Cincinnati, formerly professor of mathe- 

 matics at Bethany CoUege, instructor in 

 mathematics; Marks Neidle, Ph.D., Colum- 

 bia University, formerly instructor in chem- 

 istry at Erin Preparatory School, instructor 

 in analytical and physical chemistry; Em- 

 mett F. Hitch, Ph.D., Cornell University, 

 formerly instructor in chemistry at Cornell 

 University, assistant professor of organic and 

 technical chemistry. School of Engineering: 

 George W. Case, Cornell University, formerly 

 assistant professor of sanitary engineering at 

 Purdue University, assistant professor of 

 sanitary engineering. School of Education: 

 Thomas J. Kirby, Columbia University, 

 formerly supervisor of industrial schools, 

 N. T., professor of elementary education. 

 School of Medicine : J. D. Heard, professor of 

 medicine; X. 0. Werder, professor of gynec- 

 ology; J. McMeans, instructor in clinical 

 pathology; Miss M. E. Bothwell, research as- 

 sistant; Chris. Gardner, assistant demon- 

 strator in anatomy. 



Dr. Charles Crowther has been appointed 

 professor of agricultural chemistry in the 

 University of Leeds, and will have charge of 

 the experiments in animal nutrition. 



Professor E. W. MacBride, F.R.S., has 

 been appointed successor to the late Pro- 

 fessor Adam Sedgwick in the chair of zool- 

 ogy at the Imperial College of Science, South 

 Kensington. 



Dr. Alexander Tornquist, of Konigsberg, 

 has been appointed professor of geology at 

 Leipzig. 



