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SCIENCE 



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tions of considerable depth and ascertaining 

 if there be layers differing in composition. 

 At the present time we know nothing about 

 the depth of marine deposits beyond eighteen 

 inches. The Michael Bars will leave Ply- 

 mouth about April 6. A series of sections 

 will be made from the coasts of Europe over 

 the continental slope into deep water as far 

 south as Gibraltar, and even off the coast of 

 Africa as far south as Mogador. Observing 

 stations will then be made as far as Madeira 

 and the Azores. Should good weather be en- 

 countered, she may then proceed to Newfound- 

 land, Iceland, the Faroes and Scotland. 

 Should, however, the weather not permit this 

 extended cruise, the ship will return again 

 along the coasts of Europe to the Faroe 

 Islands. Sir John Murray, Dr. Johan Hjort, 

 Professor Gran, Dr. Helland-Hansen and Mr. 

 Koefoed wiU take part in the expedition. 

 Captain Tversen has been in command of the 

 ship for the past seven years, and the crew 

 are experienced in deep-sea work. 



VmVERSITY AND EDVCATIONAL NEWS 



The Board of Trustees of the Eeed Insti- 

 tute will establish at Portland, Ore., a College 

 of Arts and Sciences, with the bequest of 

 $2,000,000 left by the late Mrs. Amanda W. 

 Eeed. 



Senator Guggenheim, of Colorado, has 

 undertaken to give buildings to the State 

 Agricultural College and to the State Normal 

 School. It wiU be remembered that Senator 

 Guggenheim has recently given valuable 

 buildings to the University of Colorado and 

 the State School of Mines. 



Announcement is made that the Tale cor- 

 poration has decided to place the new Sloane 

 Physical Laboratory on the Hillhouse prop- 

 erty, two blocks north of the new Sheffield 

 campus. Mr. Charles C. Haight, who has 

 been the architect for the Vanderbilt dormi- 

 tories, the university library and Phelps Hall, 

 has been chosen as architect. 



Forty-seven Chinese students have come to 

 this country to enter different colleges at the 

 expense of the Chinese government. They 



wiU be followed next year by 153 students, 

 and the 200 students will be educated in this 

 country with the indemnity growing out of 

 the Boxer troubles and returned by our gov- 

 ernment to China. The whole sum will be de- 

 voted to educational work. Students will be 

 sent from China after earning appointments 

 by competitive examinations. Each student 

 is to study five years in American schools. 

 The students are in charge of Tong Kwoh On, 

 of the Chinese Foreign Office, a graduate of 

 Tale University. 



Dr. G. C. Duncan, recently a Fellow in the 

 Lick Observatory, University of California, 

 has been appointed instructor in astronomy in 

 Harvard University. 



Mr. Charles E. Temple, A.B. (Nebraska, 

 1906), A.M. (1909), has been appointed in- 

 structor in botany at the University of Michi- 

 gan. 



Dr. Jules Brady has been appointed assist- 

 ant professor of diseases of children in the 

 St. Louis University School of Medicine. 



Dr. John Wyllie Nicol has been appointed 

 the McCall Anderson Memorial lecturer in 

 dermatology in the University of Glasgow. 



DISCUSSION AND CORRESPONDENCE 



THE ENDOWMENT OF MEN" AND WOMEN, A CHECK 



TO THE INSTITUTIONAL " EXPLOITATION " 



OP GENIUS 



When rumors of the intention of Mr. An- 

 drew Carnegie to devote a goodly portion of 

 his vast wealth to the encouragement of sci- 

 ence first reached the academic world, it was 

 hinted in certain quarters that his benefaction 

 might possibly take the form of endowing men 

 and women rather than institutions. What a 

 few men of science openly, and many more 

 privately, advocated, seemed on the eve of 

 realization. The servitude of the individual 

 investigator to the whims of governing bodies, 

 the gross and petty tyrannies of presidents, 

 and the time-destroying and soul-sickening 

 vanities of faculties, appeared about to end. 

 But the development of the Carnegie Institu- 

 tion, as it now exists, has pushed aside once 

 more the fulfilment of such dreams. Later, 



