On The Campus

Mr. McLaughlin ia now the assistent professor of history. Dr. John Abbot is the new uaUtaot to Dr. Donald Maclean. Librarían Davia returned to Aon Arbor, last Friday, from his foreign trip. The S. C. A. gives its first social of the year tomorrow evening in the chapel. Dr. Vietor C. Vaughan spent the urnraer in Europe, but is now at his post. The University Republican club will meet in the law lectuie room tomorrow evening. Dr. Sewall has leave of absence for 1888-9, and Dr. J. W. Warren, of Boston, will do his work. Prof. Steere has returned from his tour in the ea8tern hemisphere, and will oonduct the work in zoölogy. Prof. Spalding's botanical laboratory has been improved by introducing a ventilating apparatus, and by raising the ceiling three feet. Prof. Calvin Thomas, of Michigan University, hss edited Q-oethe's " Torquato Tasso," for D. C. Heath tt Co,, to publish. - Detroit Jourcal. Erwin F. Smith, who did Mrs. Stowell's work during the last semester, ia again with the department of agriculture in Washington working his report relative to yellows in peaches. Prof. Langley will studyin Germany, having a leave of absence Ib a year. L. L. Van Slyke, recently of Honolulú, is to give his course in general chemistry in the secon'd semester. Frank M. Sessions, of Ann Arbor, lit '88, is book-keeper for the Edison illumin ating company in Detroit Paul Perry, o Ann Arbor, and C. A. Read, of same class, are reporters on the Detroit Tribune Louis Comstock, '88, is in Chicago witl an electrical company. The board of editors of the Bulletin, the (Jhristian association organ, will organize tomorrow evening. E. E. Brown wi] probably be re-elected managint; editor, bu ia now detained at home by the illness o his father. E. B. Conrad, of Ann Arbor will probably be elected business manager Dr. H. Gïbbes has volunteered to go to Florida to study yellow fever, and Dr Huber, '87, would go with him as assis tant. President Angelí communicate( this fact to President Cleveland last week Dr. Gibbes was once in India, under the auspices of the English government, studying Asiatic cholera. He would like to go south eow and make a few postmortem cxaminations, and go again next yaar, whon the disease is almost certain to break out, lo make a more extended examination. He is nowengaged in experimenta with the tuberculous bacilli. He has already killed one monkey by inoculating it with tuberculous matter and thus causing it to have consuroption. Another monkey and gome guinea pigs now have the disease. He takes tuberculous matter from a human patiënt, causes it to develop germs by keeping it in blood serum at a certain temperature, and then by successive cultivations makes sure that he has the tuberculous bacilli alone. The doctor is not a firm believer in the germ theory cf disease, and says there are cases of consumption in which the germ cannot be found.