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SCIENCE. 



[N. S. Vol. XXI. No. 548. 



photographic chemistry in the Cancer Labora- 

 tory at Buffalo, at a salary of $720. 



A NEW pharmacological Institute has been 

 opened at Vienna under the direction of Pro- 

 fessor Uayer. 



VVIYER8ITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS. 

 The Ontario legislature is expected to pro- 

 vide $500,000 for Toronto University, part of 

 which will be used for a university hospital. 



Mrs. E. C. Thayer, of Keene, N. H., has 

 given $50,000 to Brown University for general 

 purposes. 



]Mrs. Thomas F. Kyan has given $50,000 

 to Georgetown University towards the cost of 

 the new gymnasium. 



Dean W. N. Polk, of the Cornell Medical 

 College, has given $15,000 for the establish- 

 ment of John Metcalf Polk memorial prizes 

 for medical students. 



Two traveling scholarships of the value of 

 $1,500 each have been established at the Uni- 

 versity of Paris for women who intend to 

 become teachers. 



The formal dedication of the new physical 

 laboratory at Purdue University took place on 

 May 20. The principal address was by Pro- 

 fessor Henry S. Carhart, of the University 

 of Michigan, his subject being ' Some Leaders 

 in Physical Science.' 



The School of Applied Science of the State 

 University of Iowa has been reorganized into 

 a college, and the present director of the 

 school, Professor William G. Raymond, has 

 been made dean. A new fireproof building is 

 being erected, and is expected to be in service 

 before the end of this year. Contract has 

 just been let for the building of a dam across 

 the Iowa River below the university grounds. 

 This dam, besides providing a sheet of slack 

 water about two miles long on which the uni- 

 versity borders, will provide power for the 

 institution, and for experimental purposes, 

 and will have constructed near one end a 

 canal across which removable dams of various 

 sections will be placed for the study of flow 

 over such structures. 



The Rev. Dr. Herbert Walsh Welch has 

 been installed as president of the Ohio Wes- 

 leyan University. 



Professor E. B. Lovell, of Columbia Uni- 

 versity, has declined the call to be dean of the 

 College of Civil Engineering of Cornell Uni- 

 versity, owing to the fact that certain alumni 

 have objected to the appointment. 



Professor Charles G. Rockwood has be- 

 come professor emeritus of mathematics at 

 Princeton University. 



Professor George W. Plympton, head of 

 the department of civil engineering in the 

 Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn, will retire 

 at the end of the academic year. 



At the Johns Hopkins University Dr. 

 Florence R. Sabin has been promoted to be 

 associate professor of anatomy. Other ap- 

 pointments in the medical faculty are: Dr. 

 William S. Baer, associate in orthopedic sur- 

 gery; Dr. Thomas R. Boggs, associate in 

 medicine; Dr. Charles H. Bunting, associate 

 in pathology; Dr. Richard H. FoUis, associate 

 in surgery; Dr. William W. Ford, associate 

 in bacteriology; Dr. J. Morris Slemons, as- 

 sociate in obstetrics; Dr. George Walker, 

 associate in surgery; Dr. J. Hall Pleasants, 

 instructor in medicine; Dr. Francis C. Golds- 

 borough, assistant in obstetrics; Dr. Arthur 

 W. Meyer, assistant in anatomy; Dr. Robert 

 Retzer, assistant in anatomy, and Dr. George 

 H. Whipple, assistant in pathology. The two 

 university fellows in pathology and physiology 

 are Drs. Ernest K. Cullen and J. A. E. Eyster. 



Mr. Wm. Harper Davis, instructor in phi- 

 losophy and psychology at Lehigh L^niversity, 

 has been elected assistant professor, in charge 

 of the department. 



Dr. E. L. Norton, of the University of 

 Wisconsin, has been appointed instructor in 

 philosophy at Adelbert College. 



Appointments at Yale L'niversity have been 

 made as follows : Seth E. Moody, Howard D. 

 Newton, Carl O. Johns and Paul M. Butter- 

 field, assistants in chemistry; Dr. C. B. Rice, 

 instructor in applied electricity; Luther C. 

 Weeks, assistant in mathematics ; Philip H. 

 Mitchell, assistant in physiological chemistry. 



