Dr. S. Adler, Director of the Department of Parasitology of the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, has been invited by the Royal Society of England to participate in investigations on the tropical disease known as Kala-Azar, for the Society, which has requested that the University grant Dr. Adler a year’s leave of absence. The Department of Parasitology has been carrying on investigations in Leishmaniasis for some time, and Dr. Adler has made expeditions to Syria, Mesopotamia, Persia and Italy, where he collected data and made large collections of sand-flies.
The Hebrew University also announces that Dr. A. Frankel, formerly Ordentliche Professor of Mathematics at Kiel University, has been made Professor of Mathematics in the Einstein Institute at the University, and delivered his opening address at the inauguration of the fall semester, on November 18.
A special course in Advanced Bacteriology will be given for graduate students by the Department of Hygiene, extending for four months. A Faculty of Science, giving both undergraduate work leading to a degree, and post-graduate work was authorized by the Board of Governors of the Hebrew University at its meeting in Zurich last August. A School of Tropical Medicine will be organized to function with the proposed Medical Center in Jerusalem.
The University Library announces the establishment of the Einstein Archives, which will include letters, manuscripts, pictures, and books by and about the scientist Albert Einstein, who has already presented the original manuscript on Relativity to the University Library.
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