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SCIENCE. 



[N. S. Vol. XIV. No, 341. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS. 



After a long discussion of the report of the 

 committee on 'A National University,' pub- 

 lished above, the national council of education 

 passed on July 9 the following resolution : 



Resolved, That the report of the committee be re- 

 ceived and the committee discharged ; and that while 

 we express our appreciation of their labors we are not 

 prepared to abandon the position taken by the Na- 

 tional Educational Association in favor of a National 

 University. 



At the Johns Hopkins University the follow- 

 ing promotions have been made : 



Henry F. Reid, Ph .D. , now associate professor, to 

 be professor of geological physics. 



"William J. A. Bliss, Ph.D., now associate, to be 

 collegiate professor of physics. 



Duncan S. Johnson, Ph.D., now associate, to be 

 associate professor of botany. 



Oliver L. Fassig, Ph.D., now instructor, to be as- 

 sociate in meteorology. 



Charles R. Bardeen, M.D., now associate, to be 

 associate professor of anatomy. 



Thomas B. Futcher, M.B , now associate, to be as- 

 sociate professor of medicine. 



Walter Jones, Ph.D., now associate, to be associate 

 professor of physiological chemistry. 



Robert L. Randolph, M.D., now associate, to be 

 associate professor of ophthalmology and otology. 



Stewart Paton, M.D., now assistant in neurology, 

 to be associate in psychiatry. 



Percy M. Dawson, M.D., now instructor, to be as- 

 sociate in physiology. 



Eugene L. Opie, M.D., now instructor, to be asso- 

 ciate in pathology. 



Frank R. Smith, M.D., now instructor, to be asso- 

 ciate in medicine. 



Henry B. Jacobs, M.D., now instructor, to be as- 

 sociate in medicine. 



Thomas McCrae, M.B., now instructor, to be asso- 

 ciate in medicine. 



Frank W. Lynch, M.D., now assistant, to be asso- 

 ciate in obstetrics. 



At Washington University, St. Louis, Mr. 

 Alexander S. Chessin, formerly associate pro- 

 fessor of mathematics in the Johns Hopkins 

 University, has been appointed professor of 

 mathematics to succeed Professor Edmund A. 

 Engler, now president of Worcester Polytechnic 

 Institute. Alexander S. Langsdorf, graduate 

 of Washington University, was appointed as- 

 sistant professor of electrical engineering. It 

 is announced that before the beginning of next 



term, a professor of zoology and a professor of 

 philosophy will be appointed. 



Joseph Marshall Flint, Ph.D. (Johns 

 Hopkins), instructor in the University of Chi- 

 cago, has been appointed to the newly estab- 

 lished chair of anatomy in the University of 

 California. 



C. W. Marx, professor of mechanical engi- 

 neering in the University of Missouri, has ac- 

 cepted the professorship of engineering in the 

 University of Cincinnati. 



Dr. Frederic E. Clements, of the Univer- 

 sity of Nebraska, has been promoted from an 

 instructorship to the adjunct professorship of 

 botany. Dr. Clements is conducting a summer 

 school of ecological botany in the Pike's Peak 

 region in the Rocky Mountains of Colorado. 

 About twenty students are registered for the 

 work. 



John James Thoenber, B.Sc, 1897, and 

 M.A., 1901, of the University of Nebraska, for 

 several years teacher of science in the High 

 School of Nebraska City, Nebr., and special 

 botanical collector for the University of Ne- 

 braska for the present season, has been elected 

 to the professorship of botany in the University 

 of Arizona. He will assume his new duties on 

 August 1, after which his address will be 

 Tucson, Arizona. 



Miss Minnie A. Stoner, dean of the 

 Woman's Department and professor of domestic 

 science in the Kansas State Agricultural Col- 

 lege, has been elected professor of domestic 

 science in the Ohio State University. 



The place left vacant in the State Normal 

 School at Charleston, 111., by the resignation of 

 Dr. J. Paul Goode to accept the position of in- 

 structor of geography in the University of 

 Pennsylvania, has been given to Mr. G. D. Hub- 

 bard, graduate of the University of Illinois and 

 M.A., Harvard. 



Mr. W. V. B. Van Dyck has resigned an 

 instructorship in electrical science in Rutgers 

 College, to engage in industrial work. 



Sir Martin Conway, known to scientific men 

 for his explorations in the Himalayas, in Spitz- 

 bergen and in the Andes, has been made pro- 

 fessor of fine arts in Cambridge University. 



