OCTOBEE 17, 1913] 



SCIENCE 



545 



The construction of two new buildings on 

 the campus of the Ohio State University is 

 progressing rapidly. One will house the de- 

 partments of botany and zoology and entomol- 

 ogy; the other, the departments of forestry 

 and horticulture. They will be of briek con- 

 struction and will cost $125,000 each, exclu- 

 sive of equipment. 



A NEW course in applied entomology is of- 

 fered this year at the Ohio State University. 

 The course covers four years and leads to the 

 degree of bachelor of science in entomology. 

 The chief purpose of the course is to train 

 students for the increasing demand coming 

 from various government bureaus, experi- 

 ment stations and from state and local health 

 boards for advisers and investigators. The 

 university has also established two new com- 

 bination courses between the College of Arts 

 and the College of Agriculture and designated 

 them arts-culture and arts-home economics 

 courses. The student is registered the first 

 three years in the former college and the last 

 two years in the latter. At the end of the 

 fourth year the degree of bachelor of arts is 

 granted and at the end of the fifth year the 

 degree is either bachelor of science in agri- 

 culture or home economics. 



Dr. H. W. Loeb has been made dean of the 

 St. Louis University School of Medicine. In 

 addition to the appointments of Dr. A. G. 

 Pohlman and Dr. Don E. Joseph, already 

 noted here, to the chairs of anatomy and physi- 

 ology. Dr. Albert Kuntz, formerly instructor 

 in the University of Iowa, has been appointed 

 assistant professor of experimental biology. 



Professor Ealph S. Lillie, of the Univer- 

 sity of Pennsylvania, has been elected head of 

 the biological department of Clark University 

 to succeed Professor Clifton F. Hodge, who has 

 gone to the University of Oregon. 



Dr. N. J. Lennes, of Columbia University, 

 has been appointed professor of mathematics 

 in the University of Montana. 



In the department of biology and public 

 health of the Massachusetts Institute of Tech- 

 nology Mr. Eobert Spurr Weston has been ap- 

 pointed assistant professor. 



Eecent appointments in the University of 

 California include the following to positions 

 in the citrus experiment station and graduate 

 school of tropical agriculture, located at Eiver- 

 side, California: Dr. J. T. Barrett, pathologist 

 of the University of Illinois, has been ap- 

 pointed professor of plant pathology; Pro- 

 fessor H. S. Fawcett, pathologist of the Cali- 

 fornia State Department of Horticulture and 

 formerly pathologist of the Florida Experi- 

 ment Station, has been appointed associate 

 professor of plant pathology; Dr. Howard B. 

 Frost, assistant in plant-breeding, Cornell 

 University, has been appointed an instructor 

 in plant-breeding. 



At Grinnell College Dr. Leonidas E. Little- 

 ton, instructor in chemistry, has resigned to 

 accept the professorship of chemistry at Emory 

 and Henry College. He has been succeeded by 

 AYilliam A. Ziegler, A.B. (Grinnell, '10), A.P. 

 (Oxford, '13), a Ehodes scholar from Iowa. 

 Dr. Louis D. Hartson has been promoted 

 from instructor to assistant professor of psy- 

 chology and education. 



During the absence of Dr. David Hilt 

 Tennent, who is on a Carnegie Eesearch Expe- 

 dition, Dr. Florence Peebles is taking charge 

 of his work in Bryn Mawr College. Dr. 

 Peebles, who was last year fellow of the Asso- 

 ciation of Collegiate Alumnse, has just re- 

 turned from a year abroad, where she carried 

 on investigations in the marine laboratories at 

 ISTapIes and Monaco, and also in the University 

 of Freiburg in Breisgau. 



At the University of Wisconsin Dr. A. S. 

 Pearse has been promoted to be associate pro- 

 fessor of zoology. 



At the University of Chicago Professors G. 

 A. Bliss and H. E. Slaught have been pro- 

 moted to full professorships of mathematics. 



Dr. J. G. Fitzgerald has resigned as asso- 

 ciate professor of bacteriology in the Univer- 

 sity of California and has been appointed asso- 

 ciate professor of hygiene in the University of 

 Toronto. 



Dr. T. Franklin Sibly, lecturer in geology 

 at King's College, London, has been appointed 

 professor of geology in the University College 

 of South Wales and Monmouthshire, Cardifi'. 



