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...establishment in the Medical School of a new department which will give systematic instruction and carry on research in the study and treatment of tropical diseases, and the announcement that Dr. Richard Pearson Strong has been appointed Professor of Tropical Medicine is a significant step in the development of the science of medicine. This addition to the Medical School concerns a field of investigation of widespread importance. In the tropics the advance of the white man is constantly impeded by the attacks of tropical diseases, and the existence even of he natives is imperiled. To overcome these conditions would...
...find able co-operation in all the branches of allied sciences, and an equipment practically complete for the conduct of his investigation. The coming of Dr. Strong and the establishment of the department of Tropical Medicine is another link in the chain that binds together the cause of scientific research and the welfare of the community, and marks one more step in the advance of the Medical School to leadership among medical institutions in America...
...after the mid-years. Regular sabbatical leave for the second half of this year has been granted to Professors A. B. Hart and W. B. Munro, and to Dean Haskins. The latter recently received the award of the Woodbury Lowery Fellowship which is to be used to carry on research in historical archives, preferably those relating to American history in the archives of foreign countries...
...appointed Lecturer in Anthropology for the second half-year at a meeting of the President and Fellows of the University held Yesterday. Professor Boas is generally recognized as an authority on anthropology and ethnology, having made a special study of the Eskimo and Indian tribes of the north. His research work and discoveries, of a recent date, concerning the immigrants of this country have also brought him before the public lately. He is a member of a great many scientific societies here and in Europe and has held chairs at the University of Berlin, Clark, and Columbia...
...laboratory was founded for research work in physical and inorganic chemistry, which is Professor Richards' special line of investigation. The four specific divisions of his field are: bettering the present atomic weights, investigating the compressibility of atoms, heat of chemical reactions and electro-chemical research. All the fine apparatus now used will be transferred, and in addition many accurate and expensive pieces have been presented by the Carnegic institution at Washington which was established for the advancement of scientific research...