April 29, 1921] 



SCIENCE 



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paying money in one of the largest government 

 'Organizations. 



Grade 16 — Salary range, $4,500 to $5,700. The 

 number of classes of employment, five, ranging 

 from general supervision over design and installa- 

 tion of accounting systems to administrative con- 

 trol of the clerical force and responsibility for the 

 general business operations of one of the largest 



Grade 17— Salary range, $5,700 to $7,500. Two 

 classes, chief law officer of a department, com- 

 mission or other independent government estab- 

 lishment, and having responsible charge of a 

 major sulbdivision of a technical, scientific or pro- 

 fessional organization. 



Grade 18 — ^Salary range, all above $7,500. Em- 

 ployments include all technical, scientific, profes- 

 sional and executive employments whose character- 

 istics and requirements are superior to those in the 

 lower grades. No salary in excess of $7,500 may 

 be paid to any persons unless specifically author- 

 ized by Congress. 



THE MUSEUMS AND COLLECTIONS OF YALE 

 UNIVERSITY 



The Tale Corporation lias approved the 

 plan of the University Council for a perman- 

 ent Committee on University Museums to in- 

 clude all officers in charge of museiun collec- 

 tions and for the appointment of a corporation 

 committee to meet this Committee on Univer- 

 sity Museums to consider " the relation of the 

 museums and of their buildings to each other, 

 the organization of the collections within the 

 respective divisions and the functions of the 

 Museums Committee." 



A survey recently made shows that tlie 

 various collections of the university, in addi- 

 tion to those of the School of the Fine Arts 

 and the Library, are more extensive than is 

 generally realized. The following list, the 

 arrangement of which is tentative, shows the 

 various collections and the names of tJieir 

 curators : 



I. Natural History: 



Mineralogy — Dana, Ford. 



Geology and Invertebrate Paleontology — 



Sehuehert, Dunfbar. 

 Vertebrate Paleontology and Osteology — 

 Lull. 

 ' Botany — Evans. 



Forestry — Record. 

 Zoology — Coe. 

 II. Anthropological : 



General Anthropology — McOurdy. 

 Peruvian Expedition Collection — Bingham. 

 Musical Instruments — D. S. Smith. 

 Military — Hoyle. 



III. Oriental and Classical: 



Syro-Arabian — Torrey. 



Babylonian — Clay. 



Egyptian — Clay ( acting ) . 



.^gean — ^Baur. 



Indian — Archer. 



East and Central Asiatic — Williams. 



Japanese — Asakawa. 



Numismatic — Newell. 



IV. Fine Arts — Kendall. 

 V. Library — Keog'h. 



THE HECKSCHER FUND GRANTS OF CORNELL 

 UNIVERSITY 



The Heckscher Research Council has re- 

 cently announced its iirst series of grants, as 

 follows : 



To Professor Joseph Q. Adams, Jr., Ph.D., '06, 

 a sum sufficienit to secure a substitute for him for 

 the first half of 1921-22 in order that he may be 

 released from teaching and enabled to complete 

 his "Life of William Shakespeare," on which he 

 has been for some time engaged. 



To Professor Charles C. Bidwell, Ph.D., '14, 

 $2,500 to enalble him to carry on cryogenic meas- 

 urements, the money to be used to provide a sub- 

 stitute for carrying on his work during the first 

 half of 1921-22 and to cover such additional ex- 

 penses as the investigation may involve. 



To Professor J. Chester Bradley, '06, a sum not 

 exceeding $700 to cover the cost of preparing il- 

 lustrations and lotherwise completing a work 

 embodying the results of investigations of the 

 wing venation of Hymenoptera. 



To Professor Arthur W. Browne, Ph.D., '03, 

 $1,800 to enable him to engage a competent assist- 

 ant for two semesters for investigations of certain 

 problems in the field of the oxidation of hydia- 

 zine, especially in non-aqueous solutions. 



To Professor Louis M. Dennis, $350 for the 

 purpose of engaging an assistant from March 1 to 

 July 1 to carry on investigations on the separation 

 of the isotropes of lead by chemical processes. 

 Also $2,000 for the purpose of engaging a well 

 trained assistant for one year, to devote all his 



