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POPULAR SCIENCE MONTHLY 



View Across Cold Spring Valley looking Southeastward, showing Part of the 

 Grounds of the Station for Experimental Evolution of the Carnegie Institution. 

 Main building at the extreme right, potting house and propagating house in front, and viva- 

 rium, under construction, in front of and to left of latter. To the left (north) of the main build- 

 ing is seen part of the east experimental garden. Near the extreme left is the brooder house, 

 from which radiate eight poultry runs, seen in the middle foreground. 



of the major projects, and it is planned 

 to continue it on a more extensive scale, 

 funds having been appropriated for the 

 erection of a laboratory, which will be 

 placed under the direction of Professor 

 Benedict. It is stated that the labora- 

 tory will be built where pathological 

 cases can be secured for investigation, 

 and it is now reported that it will be 

 placed in Boston. 



The two remaining departments are 

 economics and sociology and historical 

 research. The former, under the direc- 

 tion of President Carroll D. Wright, of 

 Clark College, is preparing an eco- 

 nomic history of the country with the 

 assistance of more than a hundred col- 

 laborators. As head of the department 

 of historical research, Professor J. F. 

 Jameson has succeeded Professor A. C. 

 McLaughlin. The department aims to 

 be a clearing-house for the historical 

 profession, and is engaged in various 

 miscellaneous activities, thus differing 

 somewhat from the other departments. 



It will be of great importance for 

 science to learn whether research work 



can be conducted more economically 

 and efficiently in institutions of this 

 character than when combined with 

 educational work, as at our universities, 

 or with economic work, as under the 

 government. More than half the in- 

 come of the institution is appropriated 

 for work in astronomy and geophysics, 

 in which subjects the president is es- 

 pecially competent, but it may be 

 doubted whether it is an advantage for 

 institutions in California, Arizona, 

 Florida, New York, Massachusetts and 

 South America to be conducted from 

 Washington. It would probably be 

 better if the laboratories were built 

 and endowed, and their future develop- 

 ment entrusted to local control. 



THE SAGE FOUNDATION 



Another great foundation on the 

 lines of those established by Mr. Car- 

 negie and Mr. Rockefeller is now an- 

 nounced. Mrs. Russell Sage has offered 

 to give ten million dollars to a board 

 to be incorporated by the New York 

 legislature for a foundation the object 



