son Fellowship fall into continual disuse, then the income provided for it is to be appropriated to the general use of the Department of Philosophy, in such distribution as the Mills Professor and his department colleagues of full professorial rank may advise to the Regents, provided that such allotments are to be additional to the department support from other sources and not a substitute therefor.

The Regents on August 8, 1916, voted to agree to perform the trusts laid upon them, and to express their deep appreciation of the generous spirit of the founders.

DEATH OF PRESIDENT DAVIS

Horace Davis, President of the University from 1887 to 1890, died on July 12, 1916, in San Francisco, after an operation. Mr. Davis was born in Worcester, Massachusetts, on March 16, 1831. He was the son of John Davis (long known as "Honest John Davis'), Governor of Massachusetts, and Eliza Bancroft Davis. After studying for a time at Dartmouth he graduated from Harvard in 1849. He had planned to become a lawyer, but after he had pursued his law studies for some time he was told by a physician that continuance would threaten loss of eyesight. Many years later he was told by specialists that this advice was entirely mistaken. but meanwhile he had come to California-in 1852-and had become a highly successful business man and flour manufacturer, and a leader of the community in all good things. In 1875 he was married to Edith Starr King, the daughter of the Rev. Thomas Starr King. Mrs. Davis died in 1909.

Mr. Davis served in the Forty-fifth and Forty-sixth Congresses, from 1877 to 1881; was a member of the Republican National Committee from 1880 to 1888; a presidential elector in 1884; President of the University of California from 1887 to 1890; for many years a Trustee of Stanford University and long President of the Board; President of the Board of Trustees of the California School of Mechanical Arts; at one time President of the National Conference of the Unitarian Church, and Vice-President of the American Unitarian Association; a member of many learned societies and civic organizations, and always untiring in his services to the intellectual and political good of the community. He had published volumes on "American Constitutions" and on "Shakespeare's Sonnets." He was three times given the degree of LL.D., by the University of the Pacific in 1889, by Harvard in 1911, and by the University of California in 1912.

Until the end of his days he was full of abounding vigor, intellectual enthusiasm, and joy of life.

Emanuel Benjamin Lamare died in Berkeley on September 6. From January 1, 1902, to 1906 Mr. Lamare was Assistant in French, and from 1906 to 1911 and again in 1913 Instructor in French in the University. He was born at Dunkerque, France, in 1846, studied at Haffreingue College in Boulogne-sur-Mer, served in the French army, in the 66th of the line, from September, 1870, to March, 1871, and for many years taught in various California schools.

Robert Belcher, '00, a member of the Central Council of the Alumni Association from 1913 to 1916, was drowned on July 24 in the San Joaquin River, just above the mouth of Evolution Creek, a refractory saddle-horse having taken water below the proper ford, and having lost its footing in the swift current. He had won much success in his profession of mining and oil engineer, and had long given unstintingly of loyal service to the University.

A NEW REGENT

His Honor William Dennison Stephens, Lieutenant-Governor of California by appointment by Governor Johnson on July 22, 1916, has thereby become a Regent ex officio, as successor to the late John Morton Eshleman.

Lieutenant-Governor Stephens has served as a Congressman since 1911. Born in Eaton, Ohio, in 1859, he was as a young man in engineering corps for railway construction for seven years, in 1887 came to California and engaged in business and later in banking, was a member of the Los Angeles Board of Education in 1906-07, Mayor of Los Angeles in 1909, in 1910 President of the Board of Water Commissioners and member of the advisory committee for building the Owens River Aqueduct, and he has served as President of the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce and as Major and Commissary of the First Brigade of the California National Guard.

MIGRATION OF PROFESSORS

Several visitors from other universities are for the first half-year of 1916-17 members of the faculty of the University of California, including Paul Shorey, Professor of Greek in the University of Chicago, here for the year as Sather Professor of Classical Literature; Mary Whiton Calkins, Professor of Philosophy in Wellesley College, at Berkeley for the fall semester as Lecturer in Philosophy on the Mills Foundation; and Cassius Jackson Keyser, Professor of Mathematics in Columbia University, here for the year through exchange of chairs with Professor M. W. Haskell.

SUMMER SESSION OF 1916

The Summer Session of 1916 was the largest in the history of the University, save only for the abnormal expansion of the Exposition year 1915. For 1916 the Summer Session enrolled 3976 students as compared with 5394 in the Exposition year, 3101 in 1914, 2462 in 1913, and 2273 in 1912. That is to say, in four years the attendance increased by three-fourths.

As always, a number of men of distinction from other universities were members of the faculty of the Summer Session. Among the visitors were Frank William Taussig, Henry Lee Professor of Economics at Harvard; Morris Jastrow, Jr., Professor of Semitic Languages and Librarian of the University of Pennsylvania; Edmund Kemper Broadus, Professor of English Language and Literature, University of Alberta; Moses Gomberg, Professor of Organic Chemistry, University of Michigan; Kuno Francke, Professor of the History of German Culture, Harvard; Leon Nelson Flint, Assistant Professor of Journalism, University of Kansas; Robert Clarkson Brooks, Joseph Wharton Professor of Political Science, Swarthmore College; Isaac Joslin Cox, Professor of American History, University of Cincinnati; Colin V. Dyment, Professor of Journalism, University of Oregon; Ian C. Hannah, late President of Kings College, Nova Scotia, now Lecturer on Art of the Oxford and Cambridge University Extension Systems; Roscoe R. Hill, Professor of History, University of New Mexico; I. B. Stoughton Holborn, Lecturer of the Oxford and Cambridge University Extension Systems; and Roy Edwin Schulz, Professor of the Spanish Language, University of Southern California.

A step in the democratization of the Greek Theatre was that all the students of the Summer Session were admitted without charge to all the plays, concerts, and other events held there during the Summer Session. When all the world is going, all the world wants to go, and the result was great outpourings not only of Summer Session students but also of the community in general.

The California High School Teachers' Association met in annual convention at the University from July 10 to 14 during the Summer Session.

MINING DEVELOPMENTS

Vigorous new life has been breathed into the College of Mining by the new Professor of Mining, Frank H. Probert. Never before a teacher, and for twenty years engaged in the active practice of his profession as a mining superintendent, as a field expert, as a consulting mining engineer, and as a scientific investigator of

mining problems, Professor Probert is emphasizing strongly the importance of the understanding of the economic aspects of mining. Believing that the time-honored custom that the mining student should spend his summers doing unskilled labor below ground in a mine has the defect of confusing the difference between being a miner and being a mining engineer, but regarding it as essential that a mining student should none the less understand just what back-breaking toil means, and should be master of the mechanical operations of the craft, Professor Probert is providing opportunity to acquire practical skill in drilling, blasting, timbering, and the like, by having his students drive the "Lawson Adit" deep into the Berkeley Hills, east of the Hearst Memorial Mining Building. Already in some 150 feet, Professor Probert expects to continue this adit for approximately two thousand feet into the range. Not only will valuable opportunity for practice result but it is hoped also to develop water.

FORESTRY WORK

A new four-year course in "Forest Utilization" has been added to the existing course in "General Forestry." Its purpose will be special training for forest or logging engineers. With twenty-eight million acres of forest in California, including twenty million acres of national forest, and with an existing supply which would last three hundred years at the present rate of cutting, even making no allowance for growth, the development of forestry in the University of California is particularly appropriate. The ground for scientific investigation is still unbroken. To train specialists in tropical forestry to solve the problems of Central and South America and the Orient is an opportunity of particular value which lies before the University.

TO IMPROVE CALIFORNIA HERDS

A "State Dairy Cow Competition" for $7500 in cash and various special prizes will be inaugurated by the University on November 1, to help in rousing California dairymen to the fact that good blood pays and that they cannot afford to waste time, land, and labor on inferior stock. The competition will be for a maximum production of butter-fat during ten months-the normal lactation period whereas most breed associations make a year the period for record, with consequent danger of upsetting regular breeding. Common or grade cows will compete among themselves for cash prizes of $10 to $300 each, aggregating $1900, and for a number of special prizes in the way of dairy apparatus, bull calves, etc.

There will also be special competitions for pure-bred Jerseys and Guernseys and for pure-bred Holsteins.

With October 1, 1916, a new state law will go into effect, forbidding the sale in California of milk from any other than tuberculintested herds (or of butter made from milk from untested herds) unless the milk has been pasteurized by heating it uniformly for twentyfive minutes at a temperature of 140° to 145° Fahrenheit. There is, therefore, a special timeliness in the experiments recently completed by Dr. Jacob Traum, Assistant Professor of Veterinary Science, and Dr. G. H. Hart, City Veterinarian of Los Angeles. They found a dairy in Los Angeles which had put all its tuberculous cows into one herd, of 400 head, and its non-tuberculous cows into a separate herd. The milk from 400 cows every single one of which was tuberculous was being sold in Los Angeles after pasteurization in a commercial creamery. Twenty-four samples of the raw milk from this tuberculous herd, taken at intervals during a period of six months, were used to inoculate guineapigs. In every instance except one these twenty-four samples of milk produced tuberculosis in the guineapigs. Fourteen samples of this milk, clarified but not pasteurized, were tested, and these produced tuberculosis in all but three guineapigs inoculated. However, twenty-three samples of this same milk, taken after it had been pasteurized on a large scale under ordinary commercial conditions, when inoculated into guineapigs did not produce tuberculosis in a single instance. Gratifying as is this evidence of the value of pasteurization when properly done, nevertheless it points to the need of careful public supervision, lest pasteurization measures produce a false sense of security.

KEARNEY LANDS FOR A SCHOOL

The Regents have agreed to deed to the Madison School District, in Fresno County, three acres of the land bequeathed to the University by M. Theo. Kearney, subject to the provision that the land is to revert should it cease to be of use for school purposes.

PRAISE FOR MILITARY TEACHING

The University of California is one of the fifteen American universities and colleges placed by the United States War Department upon its list of "Distinguished Colleges" as a result of the last annual inspection of the military departments of educational institutions.

"This is by far the best instructed cadet corps I have seen.''