THE PROGRESS OF SCIENCE. 



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each additional year of service above twenty- 

 five, the retiring allowance shall be increased 

 by one per cent, of the active pay. (d) No re- 

 tiring allowance shall exceed three thousand 

 dollars. 



6. Any person who has been for ten years 

 the wife of a professor in actual service may 

 receive during her widowhood one half of the 

 allowance to which her husband would have 

 been entitled. 



7. In the preceding rules, years of leave of 

 absence are to be counted as years of service 

 but not exceeding one year in seven. 



8. Teachers in the professional departments 

 of universities whose principal work is outside 

 the profession of teacning are not included. 



9. The benefits of ihe foundation shall not be 

 available to those whose active service ceased 

 before April l(j, 1905, the date of Mr. Carnegie's 

 original letter to the trustees. 



Institutions supported by the state 

 were excluded by the terms of the orig- 

 inal gift, but this provision has not 

 been included in the act of incorpora- 

 tion and the question is under consider- 

 ation. Institutions controlled by a re- 

 ligious organization, requiring sectarian 

 tests, or teaching distinctly denomina- 

 tional tenets are excluded. The fact 

 that a university such as Chicago is 

 excluded, while a college whose spirit 

 is essentially sectarian may be ac- 

 cepted, will at first work inequality, 

 but the institutions will doubtless ad- 

 just themselves to the conditions. It 

 would probably have been better if the 

 denominational question had been 

 ignored. A sectarian university is 

 a contradiction in terms, as an in- 

 stitution can not be at the same 

 time sectarian and a university, but 

 under existing conditions a certain 

 amount of denominational control seems 

 to be innocent enough, especially in the 

 case of small colleges. The definition 

 of a college, based in part on the New 

 York state ordinance, is as follows: 



An institution to be ranked as a college, must 

 have at least six professors giving their entire 

 time to college and university work, a course 

 of four full years in liberal arts and sciences, 

 and should require for admission, not less than 

 t he usual four years of high school preparation, 

 or its equivalent. A technical school, to be 

 eligible, must have entrance and graduation re- 

 quirements equivalent to those of the college, 

 and must offer courses in pure and applied 

 science of equivalent prade. To be ranked as 



a college an institution must have a productive 

 endowment of not less than two hundred thou- 

 sand dollars. 



SCIENTIFIC ITEMS 



We regret to record the deaths of 

 Professor Israel Cook Russell, head of 

 the Department of Geology at the Uni- 

 versity of Michigan, of Walter F. R. 

 Weldon, F.R.S., Linacre professor of 

 comparative anatomy at Oxford Uni- 

 versity, and of M. Pierre Curie, pro- 

 fessor of physics at the Sorbonne, 

 Paris, eminent with Mine. Curie for 

 the discovery of radium. 



Stanford University suffered se- 

 verely by the recent earthquake, the 

 loss being estimated at nearly $3,000,- 

 000. The buildings totally wrecked are 

 the church, the memorial arch and the 

 new library and gymnasium buildings. 

 The buildings occupied by the labora- 

 tories and lecture rooms are not seri- 

 ously damaged, and the university will 

 be able to resume its work at the open- 

 ing of the next term on August 23. 

 The University of California suffered 

 but little injury, either at Berkeley or 

 San Francisco. Buildings owned by it 

 in San Francisco, however, were de- 

 stroyed and will seriously curtail its 

 income, which will also suffer by the 

 decrease of taxation in the state, 

 unless this is made good by the legisla- 

 ture. The University of the Pacific 

 suffered to the extent of about $60,000 

 with its buildings and collections. The 

 building of the California Academy of 

 Sciences was completely burned, but 

 the type specimens and records were 

 saved. 



The New York legislature has passed 

 a bill providing for a new building for 

 the State Museum, State Library and 

 the Education Department, to cost not 

 more than four million dollars. The 

 bill carries an appropriation for the 

 acquisition of a site and the preparing 

 of plans. The legislature also passed 

 a bill to acquire Watkins Glen, one of 

 the ravines running into the Finger 

 Lakes of western Xew York, for a state 

 reservation. This region was described 



