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schools of Minnesota. Condemning evolution 

 as "a program of infidelity masquerading under 

 the name of science," resolutions were adopted 

 urging that "Cirristians throughout the state 

 appeal to the legislature to eliminate from all 

 tax supported schools this anti-scientiflc and 

 anti-scriptural theory of the origin of man and 

 the universe." The Reverend W. B. Riley, pas- 

 tor of the Fii-st Baptist Church of Minneapolis, 

 the head of the committee calling the state 

 gathering, said that it would be urged to start 

 an injunction suit to prevent public schools, 

 normal schools and the State University from 

 receiving funds from Christian taxpayers for 

 the teaching of evolution. This decision is re- 

 ported to be the direct result of an address 

 given on the preceding Sunday in St. Paul by 

 William Jennings Bi-yan, in which the adher- 

 ents of evolution were denounced. 



A PEDEEAL statute discontinued on December 

 1, 1921, all serial publications issued by execu- 

 tive branches of the government, excepting those 

 especially authorized by law. Accordingly, the 

 latest issue of the Journal of Agricultural Re- 

 search was November 26, 1921. This journal 

 carries reports of original research conducted 

 by investigators of the Department of Agricul- 

 tm-e and cooperating state experiment stations. 

 During the last congress, an amendment to the 

 statute was passed providing for the printing 

 of journals or other serial publications under 

 certain limitations, among which was included 

 the approval of the Bureau of the Budget. 

 Under date of October 19, 1922, General H. M. 

 Lord, director of the Bureau of the Budget, has 

 infor-med ithe secretary of agriculture that the 

 use of funds from the appropriation for print- 

 ing and binding of the Department of Agricul- 

 ture is approved for tilie -printing of the Jour- 

 nal of Agricultural Besearch, to be published 

 weekly in the standard octavo size. Manu- 

 scripts which are now on hand will accordingly 

 be forwarded to the Crovernment Printing OiSce 

 immediately, and it is believed that the first 

 issue of the Journal of the forthcoming new 

 volume will appear on January 6, 1923. 



In 1921 Stanford University received a grant 

 of $20,300 from the Commonwealth Fund for a 

 study of gifted children, to be conducted by 

 Professor Lewis I\I. Terman. During the 



school year of 1921-1922 approximately 1,000 

 children of the desired degree of superiority 

 were located and extensive data concerning 

 them were secured. This grant has now been 

 supplemented by a second grant of $14,000 

 fi-om the same source, on the condition that 

 Stanford Univei-sity contribute an equal 

 amount, which it has agreed to do. The second 

 grant is chiefly for the purpose of securing 

 medical, anthropological and additional psycho- 

 logical data, but a part of the sum is being 

 devoted to a parallel biographical study of the 

 childhood of men and women of genius. The 

 total cost of the Stanford invesitigation will be 

 in the neighborhood of $50,000. 



Mr. Samuel G. Lancaster, of Portland, 

 Oregon, Columbia Hig'hway engineer, has pur- 

 chased and improved a tract of seventy-three 

 acres, on the Columbia Highway, about fonty 

 miles east of Portland, known as Lancaster 

 Camp. The home economics and service in 

 camp is in charge of Reed College, the per- 

 sonnel consisting during the summer months 

 of Reed students. Ten per cent, of the firet 

 $].,000 earned from dining service goes to the 

 college for scholarships, with an increase of ten 

 per cent, for each successive $1,000, up to the 

 first $4,000 earned, fifty per cent, of all such 

 earnings thereafter going to the scholai-ship 

 fund, the remainder to be used in beautifring 

 tlie grounds, which are to be kept in perpetuiity. 

 The scheme was put in operation in the spring 

 of 1922. 



At the recent meeting of the American 

 Electrochemical Society, in Momti'eal, an ad- 

 visory committee was appointed to consult with 

 the Bureau of Mines on its eleetrometallur- 

 gical reseaich work and to recommend to the 

 bureau lines of research and investiga.tion. The 

 membership of the committee is made up of the 

 following, who are also members of the Electro- 

 thennic Division of the American Electro- 

 chemical Society : Robert Turnbull. chairman, 

 J. A. Seede, Dorsey A. Lyon, F. W. Brooke, 

 E. L. Crosby, Acheson Smith, Colin G. Fink, 

 C. A. Sohluederberg. The bui'eau will send 

 monthly progress reports of its electrometallur- 

 gical work to the members of this committee. 

 Among the suggestions for research work which 

 the committee has already made to Dorsey A. 



