1912) General 507 



alleged harmlessness of " small amounts" of benzoate and benzoic 

 acid. 



Retiring allowances. The University of Chicago has established 

 a System of retiring allowances for professors or their widows. A 

 fund of $2,500,000 taken from the $10,000,000 Rockef eller gift of 

 1910 has been set aside for this purpose. This pension System will 

 grant to men who have attained the rank of assistant professor or 

 higher, and who have reached the age of 65 and have served 15 

 years or more in the institution, 40 per cent. of their salaries and an 

 additional 2 per cent. for each year's service over 15. The plan also 

 provides that at the age of 70 a man shall be retired unless the 

 board of trustees specially continues his Services. The widow of 

 any professor entitled to the retiring allowance shall receive one 

 half the amount dtie him, provided she has been his wife for ten 

 years. 



Rev. Stephen Haies, D.D. Francis Darwin has written, for the 

 Parish Magazine, an interesting Statement regarding Rev. Stephen 

 Haies, D.D., one of the most distinguished men of science of the 

 eighteenth Century (1677-1761), from which we quote the follow- 

 ing: "Stephen Haies has been called the ' father of physiology' 

 and he deserves this title in regard both to animals and plants. His 

 experiments on the blood pressure of animals are second only to 

 Harvey's work on the circulation. In the domain of plant physi- 

 ology he is equally great. In all his researches he combined a belief 

 in the design of the Creator with a passionate desire to understand 

 the mechanism of living things. Thus he treated the manifesta- 

 tions of life as things to be weighed, measured and analyzed in the 

 laboratory. It is this point of view that gives his work so modern 

 a character and entitles him to be considered one of the founders 

 of a rational science of biology. Although he loved science for its 

 own sake, it is equally clear that he was dominated by a permanent 

 desire to use his knov/ledge for the benefit of his fellow-creatures. 

 Water supply, Ventilation, the distillation of potable water at sea, 

 the preservation of food on long voyages, the treatment of at least 

 one disease — the stone — and especially the härm arising from in- 

 temperance in the use of alcohol, all received attention. It is im- 



