a livelihood for himself. Still a young boy, he came to California, and while yet of the age of a college undergraduate of today, successfully established himself as a merchant in Oakland. As the years went by, industry, thrift, and sound judgment earned their due reward, the circle of his activities widened, and in time the immigrant lad of the fifties became the premier merchant of the Pacific Coast, directing great and varied affairs, in cities many and far spread, and always with honor and fair-dealing and kindliness toward all.

"To the service of the common good he gave unstintingly of painstaking toil and of ripe wisdom in council. When the merchants of San Francisco joined themselves together, he was their chosen leader, first of all, and for seven years, and always afterwards as honorary head; when San Francisco was stricken by disaster, he was charged with the task of disbursing the many millions generous humanity had supplied, and of so applying this relief that men and women should be strengthened to help themselves, not weakened into dependency. Remembering the pleasant places of his own home land and the use the city-dweller makes of trees and river-margins and open spaces in the city's midst, he toiled gladly to make the parks of San Francisco a people's playground and abundant source of health, happiness, and contentment. Liberal in his ideas of man's place in the universe, forward-looking in his social theories, keenly interested in the progress of the world, he served valorously in the ever-continuing fight for human liberty. It was the University as leader toward new truth, new beauty, new freedom, that was dear to his heart. To its service he gave through a decade a loyal affection, a zeal in endeavor, a wisdom in judgment, which have left their effects in body and spirit on the University.

"And now, on the eighteenth of July, nineteen hundred and fourteen, Frederick William Dohrmann ceased his long years of service to his fellow-men. In sorrow at their loss of an honored and beloved colleague, the Regents of the University of California set down upon their records this tribute to a good man gone.”

HOOPER FOUNDATION FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH An amendment has now been executed to the original declara tion of trust for the George Williams Hooper Foundation for Medical Research. This amendment provides that the institution shall be conducted by the Regents through a special Board of Trustees acting under the Regents, consisting of the President of the University as chairman and six other members, of whom at least

three shall be persons of standing in medical science or medical education. By agreement of the Regents and of the Trustees the charter members of this Board of Trustees are, in addition to President Wheeler: Dr. William H. Welch, of Baltimore; Dr. Henry S. Pritchett, of New York; Dean H. C. Moffitt, of San Francisco; Dr. George H. Whipple, Director of the Foundation, San Francisco; Mr. A. W. Foster, of San Francisco; and Mr. E. D. Conolley, of San Francisco. The chief variation of the amended declaration of trust from the original declaration is that the Professor of Pathology of Johns Hopkins University and the President of the Carnegie Foundation for the advancement of Teaching will not be ex-officio members of the Hooper Foundation Board. However, the present incumbents of these two positions, Dr. Welch and Dr. Pritchett, are now Trustees.

WORK OF THE HOOPER FOUNDATION BEGINS

The work of the Hooper Foundation has now been actually inaugurated. The Director of the Foundation, Dr. George Hoyt Whipple, holds also, as member of the faculty of the Medical School, the title of Professor of Research Medicine. Dr. Whipple was born in New Hampshire, took his A.B. at Yale in 1900 and his M.D. at Johns Hopkins in 1905, and since that time has been continuously a member of the Hopkins medical faculty, save for 1907-08, during which year he was Pathologist of the Ancon Hospital in Panama. For the past four years he has been Associate Professor of Pathology at Johns Hopkins. Of recent years he has contributed abundantly to medical literature, his work being especially in the field of the study of functional diseases, through the methods of experimental pathology. Intestinal obstructions and injuries and diseases of the liver have been a special subject of his work.

At a meeting of the Trustees of the Hooper Foundation on September 2 three other appointments were made. Dr. Karl Friedrich Meyer, at present Professor of Bacteriology and Protozoology in the University of California, was invited to become Associate Professor of Tropical Medicine in the Foundation, Dr. Ernest Linwood Walker was given a like appointment, and Dr. Charles W. Hooper was appointed Fellow in Research Medicine.

THE MEDICAL SCHOOL

The Regents on August 11 officially changed the name of the medical school to "The University of California Medical School." Heretofore the official designation was "The College of Medicine of the University of California.''

A fifth or "interne" year has been made a requirement for the degree in medicine for all students in the University of California Medical School registering in August, 1914, or thereafter. One year's work in teaching or research in any of the departments of the Medical School will be considered the equivalent of the fifth

year.

The Medical School has now separated Pediatrics from Medicine, and Pediatrics will be considered a department by itself.

The free clinics at the University Hospital have been greatly developed during the past year. The year's visits exceeded 50,000, an increase of 50 per cent over the previous year. Among important recent developments in the Medical School have been a "Social Service Department," which trains the medical students to investigate the relations between the physical ailments of patients and their human problems of daily life; study of the problems of tuberculosis, through co-operation with the San Francisco Society for the Study and Prevention of Tuberculosis; the establishment of a special cancer ward, supported by the generous gift of a friend of the Medical School, and the development of new courses in preventive medicine, the care of delinquent and psychopathic children, radio-therapy, experimental biology, experimental pathology, tropical medicine, and the diseases of old age.

DR. LEGGE HEADS THE INFIRMARY

To continue the important work begun by Dr. Reinhardt, creator of the idea of the Infirmary, where every student is taken full care of in time of illness or given whatever medical treatment or advice he may need, Dr. Robert Thomas Legge has now been appointed Professor of Hygiene and University Physician. Dr. Legge for the past fourteen years has been engaged in a work closely similar to that of the Infirmary, since as Chief Surgeon of the McCloud River Railway Company he has had charge of the McCloud Hospital, at McCloud, Siskiyou County, and entire charge as well of all matters of health for the two thousand employees of the railway and of the McCloud River Lumber Company and for their families. In this capacity he has done a great work in preventive medicine.

Dr. Legge was born in San Francisco, graduated in 1891 from the College of Pharmacy of the University of California, and in 1899 from the College of Medicine. During the following year he was an interne in St. Luke's Hospital in San Francisco, and also Instructor in Materia Medica in the University of California Medical School. He is president of the Shasta County Medical

Society, First Lieutenant in the Medical Reserve Corps of the Army, and Fellow of the American College of Surgeons. He will take up his work at the University in January, 1915.

SATHER PROFESSOR IN CLASSICAL LITERATURE

The income of the fund of approximately $140,000 given by Mrs. Jane K. Sather to endow the Sather Professorship in Classical Literature is for the present being devoted to bringing to the University each year some visiting scholar of distinction in the field of the classics. The Sather Professor in Classical Literature for 1914-15 is to be John Swinnerton Phillimore, Professor of Humanity in Glasgow University since 1906. Professor Phillimore was Lecturer in Christ Church in 1895 and tutor from 1896 to 1899, and Professor of Greek at Glasgow from 1899 to 1906. Among his published writings are a critical edition of Propertius and translations of several plays of Sophocles, of Propertius, and of Philostratus Apollonius of Tyana.

PRACTICE TEACHING FOR THE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION

The long-desired "practice school' has at last been provided for the School of Education, through the action of the Oakland Board of Education in setting aside the Emerson School, an adequately furnished and equipped building in Oakland, to be used as the "University High School." The city of Oakland will employ such supervisory teaching force as may be nominated by the Department of Education of the University and will defray all the expenses of the school. C. E. Rugh, Professor of Education, will act as principal. The University has long required practice in teaching as a prerequisite to the granting of a recommendation for the teacher's certificate. The work has been done at a disadvantage since the practice teaching had to be carried on in so many different schools. That the bulk of the practice teaching can now be concentrated in one school will have great practical advantages.

SUMMER FIELD COURSES

An interesting new development of the agricultural instruction of the University is the summer traveling courses. The students in the summer field-study course in soil technology spent a month in mapping soils at the University Farm and the Kearney Vineyard and then two weeks more inspecting soils in the neighborhood of Stockton, Sacramento, Marysville, Oroville, Chico, Red Bluff, Corn

ing, etc. The summer field course in pomology took thirty students to visit representative ranches and typical orchard sections, canneries, nurseries, packing-houses, and other industries connected with fruit-growing. The students who are specializing in the citrus fruits either worked in orange and lemon orchards or else went on a journey which included all the principal orange and lemon growing regions of California. Their journey was of nearly 1300 miles. There were other summer field courses in dairy production, in dairy manufactures, and in agronomy.

BOYS' CLUB GROWING CONTESTS

More than fifty Boys' Agricultural Clubs have been organized during the past year in different parts of California. Over forty of these successfully carried through "growing contests" to see which of their members could grow the most and make the most per acre. No boy tilled less than a quarter of an acre, and some five, six, or seven acres. Among the contest crops grown were beans, potatoes, figs, canteloupes, corn, onions, peas, peanuts, tomatoes, or mixed vegetables. The prize for the winners from all the clubs was a trip to Washington in a special car, that the boys might see farming methods in a score of different states.

BIOLOGICAL SURVEY OF THE BAY

A biological and physical survey of San Francisco Bay is in progress, through co-operation between the United States Bureau of Fisheries, the University of California, the State Fish and Game Commission of California, and Stanford University. The biological aspects of the work have been planned by Professor Charles A. Kofoid, head of the Department of Zoology. The first fruits of the work (which has already been in progress for more than two years) have been made public in a "Report on the Physical Conditions in San Francisco Bay," written by Dr. Francis B. Sumner, formerly Biologist on the United States fishery steamer Albatross, and now Biologist in the Scripps Institution for Biological Research. number of other publications are to follow.

PHILOSOPHICAL UNION ANNIVERSARY

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In honor of the twenty-fifth anniversary of the founding of the Philosophical Union, Dr. Josiah Royce, '75, Professor of the History of Philosophy and Walter Channing Cabot Fellow in Harvard University, gave the twenty-fifth anniversary address on August 28. The Philosophical Union was founded in 1889 by Dr. George Holmes