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ship of the American Association were 

 made twice or ten times what it now is. 

 Both the scientific man and those 

 only interested in science will be amply 

 repaid by attendance at the Washing- 

 ton meetings. Indeed no scientific 

 man can afford to be absent. Those 

 who wish merely to keep in touch with 

 the forward movement of science will 

 profit much from attendance. They 

 can visit Washington at a favorable 

 time at greatly reduced rates and hotel 

 charges, and there will be much to 

 interest them in the programs. Presi- 

 dent Roosevelt is honorary president 

 of the local committee and it is ex- 

 pected that he will open the meetings. 

 It would be impossible to quote the 

 titles of the hundreds of papers that 

 will be presented, but their general 

 character is indicated by the names 

 of some of those who will give official 

 addresses : Before the Association 

 President Asaph Hall, and before the 

 sections of the association vice-presi- 

 dents Hough, Weber, Derby, Culin, 

 Welch, Franklin, Flather, Nutting, 

 Campbell, and Wright; before the 

 Astronomical and Astrophysical So- 

 ciety of America, President Simon 

 Nevveomb; before the Chemical Society, 

 President Ira Remsen; before the 

 American Society of Naturalists, Presi- 

 dent J. McKeen Cattell ; before the Bo- 

 tanical Society, President J. C. Arthur ; 

 before the Geological Society, Presi- 

 dent N. H. Winchell; before the Psy- 

 chological Association, President E. C. 

 Sanford, etc. Public lectures will be 

 given before the Association by Pro- 

 fessors Russell and Heilprin on the 

 volcanoes of the West Indies, and be- 

 fore the Naturalists by Dr. Merriam on 

 protective and directive coloration. 

 The discussion before the Naturalists 

 is on ' How can endowments be 

 used most effectively for research?', 

 the speakers including Professors 

 Chamberlin, Welch, Boas, Wheeler, 

 Coulter and Miinsterberg. These are 

 only a few of the hundreds of scien- 

 tific men who will be present and pre- 



sent papers or take part in the dis- 

 cussions of the meetings, which 

 promise to be more interesting and im- 

 portant than any ever before held on 

 this continent. 



TEE CARNEGIE INSTITUTION. 



It might be expected that after the 

 annual meeting of the trustees of the 

 Carnegie Institution on November 25, 

 some statement could be made here in 

 regard to the policy of the institution. 

 Nothing has, however, been made public 

 beyond the news item given to the 

 reporters to the effect that $200,000 

 had been appropriated for the work 

 to be determined by the executive 

 committee, $40,000 for publication, 

 $50,000 for administration and $100,- 

 000 for a reserve fund. The institu- 

 tion will, however, publish a year-book, 

 which will doubtless contain various 

 matters that have hitherto been kept 

 secret, such as the names of members 

 of the advisory committees of scientific 

 men and their reports. Though no 

 official announcement has been made, it 

 appears that certain grants have been 

 approved by the executive committee. 

 Thus the medical papers report that 

 $10,000 a year has been appropriated 

 to revive the ' Index Medicus,' formerly 

 compiled under the direction of Dr. 

 John S. Billings, now vice-president of 

 the institution. 



A form of application for grants has 

 been printed and approved by the 

 trustees, to which it seems that men 

 of science are likely to object, if in- 

 deed reputable men of science will con- 

 sent to sign it at all. This form re- 

 quires scientific men to promise to be- 

 gin the research ' forthwith and to 

 prosecute it diligently,' not to publish 

 their results elsewhere if the institu- 

 tion wants them and to give all their 

 apparatus, material, collections, etc. to 

 the institution. These and other con- 

 ditions on the contract seem to be 

 almost an affront to men of science, 

 calculated to profit the Carnegie In- 

 stitution at the expense of others. It 



