SCIENCE 



[N. S. Vol. XXXVIII. No. 989 



may take up, but conservative as to the con- 

 elusions it draws. The volume is arranged 

 chronologically, and the contents give full in- 

 formation as to where the reports of the vari- 

 ous subcommittees appear. These reports con- 

 tain numerous tables giving analyses and 

 classifications of paint materials. 



UNIVESSITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS 



At the meeting of the National Association 

 of State Universities, which was held recently 

 in Washington, D. C, a committee was ap- 

 pointed to draw up plans and policies to be 

 submitted to congress for its approval. A bill 

 will be presented asking for $500,000 as the 

 first step in the organization. 



A FUND of $500,000, which the Knights of 

 Columbus of this country have been collecting 

 for more than two years for the Catholic Uni- 

 versity at Washington, has been completed. 

 The gift, it is understood, will be presented 

 to the institution some time during the 

 Christmas holidays. 



The board of regents of the University of 

 California has announced the completion of 

 the additional fund of $600,000 for the erec- 

 tion of the hospital building which is to be a 

 part of the College of Medicine of the univer- 

 sity. It is stated that the principal donations 

 to the fund are from Mr. and Mrs. William H. 

 Crocker, Templeton Crocker and Mrs. C. B. 

 Alexander, New York, who contributed $150,- 

 000, and Mr. John Keith who also gave $150,- 

 000. A committee has been appointed to 

 administer the fund and supervise the erection 

 of the building. 



The library of the late Dr. Ernest Ziegler, 

 professor of pathology at Frieburg, founder of 

 the Beitrdge zur Pathologische Anatomie and 

 author of the well-known text-book on pathol- 

 ogy, was presented formally to the medical 

 department of the University of Pittsburgh on 

 December 4. The donor is Mr. Richard B. 

 Mellon of Pittsburgh. 



Faculty promotions at Oberlin for the com- 

 ing year include : Robert A. Budington, asso- 

 ciate professor of zoology, to be professor of 

 zoology and head of the department; Dr. 



George R. M. Wells, instructor in psychology, 

 to be associate professor; Dr. S. P. Nichols, as 

 associate professor of zoology. New appoint- 

 ments include: Dr. Charles G. Rodgers, to be 

 professor of zoology. Dr. Rodgers's academic 

 record is as follows : A.B., Syracuse Univer- 

 sity, 1897; A.M., Syracuse, 1899; Ph.D., 

 California, 1904; instructor in zoology, Syra- 

 cuse, 1899-1902; assistant professor, 1905-OY; 

 associate professor, 1907-11, and professor 

 since 1911. 



New members of the staff of instruction 

 of the Throop College of Technology 

 are Franklin Thomas, B.E., Iowa, associate 

 professor of civil engineering, and Howard J. 

 Lucas, B.A., Ohio State University, M.A., 

 Chicago, instructor in chemistry in place of 

 Charles A. Brautlecht, resigned. Professor 

 Thomas has done graduate work at McGill 

 University and has been a member of the 

 engineering staff at Michigan. He has also 

 had practical experience. 



DISCUSSION AND COBBESPONDENCE 



MORE DATA ON THE HISTORY OF THE DOLLAR MARK 



Private correspondence carried on since the 

 publication of my article on the evolution of 

 the dollar mark in the Popular Science 

 Monthly for December, 1912, has brought to 

 my attention some new material and a few 

 minor corrections, which seem worthy of pub- 

 lication. I may say at the outset that the new 

 material does not modify the conclusion I had 

 reached, viz., that the modern dollar mark de- 

 scended from p^ the Spanish-American ab- 

 breviation for " pesos." As a first correction, 

 my former statement that in Argentina, % is 

 placed after the numerals, thus 65 slmuld De 

 modified by inserting " usually " or " fre- 

 quently." In the newspaper La Prensa, pub- 

 lished in Buenos Aires, the $ usually follows 

 the numerals in the short advertisements, but 

 usually precedes the numerals when they are 

 arranged in columns. Again, I said that the $ 

 occurred in the Hawaiian edition of 1845 of 

 Warren Colburn's " Mental Arithmetic," but 

 the corresponding secretary of the Hawaiian 

 Historical Society kindly informs me that the 



