Announcement is made by the American Advisory Committee that the Departments of Hygiene and General Chemistry of the Hebrew University will cooperate with the Keren. Kayemeth, the Jewish National Fund, and the Palestine Economic Corporation in making plans for the drainage of Haifa Bay. A study will be made by the University of the Kurdany Springs near Acre, on the land of the Haifa Bay Development Company, to determine the potability, salinity and suitability of the water for irrigation purposes. A commission, consisting of the Director of Public Works of Palestine, the Engineer of the Keren Kayemeth, and Dr. I. J. Kligler, head of the Department of Hygiene of the University, has been appointed to work out the specifications for the drainage project.
The Committee also announces that new members of the Faculty of the Hebrew University for the coming year will include Dr. Fritz Baer, authority on the Spanish period of Jewish history, who will lecture on the History of the Jews in the Middle Ages. Dr. Baer has been a member of the Instiute for Jewish Studies of Berlin, and is the author of a number of works on the epoch that has been termed the Golden Age of Jewish History.
Dr. S. Klein, Professor of Palestine Research at the Hebrew University, has returned to Palestine after an exleave of absence.
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