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SCIENCE 



[N. S. Vol. LI. No. 1312 



An impressive architectural plan for the 

 whole campus has been prepared by the dis- 

 tinguished New Tork architect, Mr. Bertram 

 G. Goodhue, and all the new construction is 

 being carried out in accordance with this 

 plan. 



There have recently become associated with 

 the faculty of the institute a number of well 

 known investigators. Dr. Arthur A. Ifoyes 

 has resig-ned his position at the Massachu- 

 setts Institute of Technology to become 

 director of chemical research at the California 

 Institute. Dr. Robert A. MiUikan, of the 

 University of Chicago, has arranged to spend 

 one term of each year at the institute, and 

 will have general supervision of the research 

 and instruction in physics. Professor Albert 

 A. Michelson, of the University of Chicago, 

 will also spend much of his time there for the 

 purpose of carrying on researches on the fun- 

 damental problem of earth tides, for which 

 the necessary equipment is now being in- 

 stalled. Dr. Harry Bateman, formerly of 

 Cambridge University and Johns Hopkins 

 University, had previously joined the faculty 

 as professor of aeronautical research and 

 ■mathematical physics. 



In the development of the institute special 

 •emphasis is being placed upon research, not 

 •only because every institution of higher edu- 

 cation should contribute to the advancement 

 of science, but also and particularly because a 

 prominent feature of the work of instruction 

 is to be the training of engineers of the re- 

 search or creative type. While the institute 

 •will continue to offer four-year undergraduate 

 courses which fit its students directly for the 

 positions of operating and constructing engi- 

 neers, two new courses of instruction, to be 

 known as the courses in physics and engineer- 

 ing and in chemistry and engineering, will 

 soon be announced by the faculty, in which 

 ■special stress will be laid on an imusually 

 thorough grounding in the three fundamental 

 -sciences of physics, chemistry and mathe- 

 matics; and in the last two years of which 

 much time will be assigned to research in 

 physics and chemistry; the time required for 

 .these purposes being secured by omitting 



some of the more technical engineering sub- 

 jects included in the other engineering 

 courses. 



The faculty has also been strengthened on 

 the side of humanistic studies by renewal of 

 the arrangement with Alfred Noyes, the Eng- 

 lish poet, which was in effect before the war, 

 under which he will during the next year 

 give courses of lectures on English literature; 

 and by the appointment of Paul Perigord as 

 professor of economics. 



THE ANNUAL MEETING OF THE BOARD OF 



TRUSTEES OF THE AMERICAN MUSEUM 



OF NATURAL HISTORY 



Announcement of the nature and scope of 

 the activities of the American Museum of 

 Natural History during the past year and of 

 a prospectus for the coming fifty years was 

 made on February 2 by President Henry 

 Fairfield Osborn, at the annual meeting of 

 the board of trustees, held at the home of 

 Arthur Curtiss James, 39 East 69th Street, 

 who acted at host. 



Due to its urgency, the matter of main- 

 tenance and building funds was given prom- 

 inence. It was reported that the Museum is 

 now facing the most critical time of its 

 history. 



While progress is being made in many 

 directions. President Osbom said, it is not 

 symmetrical, and in order to secure a har- 

 monious educational treatment and to truth- 

 fully arrange our present collections, the 

 museum needs double the space which it now 

 occupies. It is fifteen years since the build- 

 ing has been enlarged, and during this time 

 the collections have nearly doubled. Presi- 

 dent Osborn ascribes this marking time of 

 progress not to lack of cooperation on the 

 part of the board of estimate and apportion- 

 ment of the city, which has recently mani- 

 fested its confidence in the institution by in- 

 creasing the annual maintenance fund fifty 

 per cent.; nor to lack of interest on the part 

 of the trustees, who have been signally gen- 

 erous, contributing the simi of over $100,000 

 in 1919 alone to meet deficiencies in the bud- 

 get; nor to lack of friendliness on the part 

 of the Board of Education, which has also 



