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radiography, biology, etc. Photographs should 

 reach me not later than Thursday, July 1. 

 They should be mounted but not framed. 



I should be glad if any worker who is able 

 to send photographs will communicate with 

 me as soon as possible so that I might arrange 

 for the receiving and entry of the exhibit. 



A. J. ISTewton 

 Eastman Kodak Company, 

 eochestee, n. y., 



QUOTATIONS 



COMPETITION IN RESEARCH 



The resignation of Professor Ernest Fox 

 Nichols from the department of physics at 

 Tale University in order to continue his re- 

 search work upon a larger scale in the Nela 

 Research Laboratories of the National Lamp 

 Works at Cleveland, offers a new impression 

 of the iHDSsible utilization of professional 

 talent. Professor Nichols resigned the presi- 

 dency of Dartmouth College to come to Yale 

 where there was a greater promise of his con- 

 tinuing his scientific work, and now leaves 

 Yale to enter the employ of a private corpor- 

 ation whose opportunities for scientific work 

 on a much enlarged scale are even greater. 



The loss to Yale of the fine influence of Dr. 

 Nichols' personality is obvious. That is some- 

 thing to be deeply regretted but, taking him 

 as a type of trained scientists, whether the 

 withdrawal of such men from the universities 

 of the country and their employment by large 

 corporations whose interest in scientific re- 

 search is more direct is to the common dis- 

 advantage may seriously be questioned. The 

 limitations which are necessarily set upon 

 work of this character even in the best 

 equipped of university laboratories disappear 

 in corporations where no limitations are set 

 when the importance of the end sought is 

 realized. In the case of Dr. Nichols the work 

 which he wishes to accomplish has such great 

 importance in its actual accomplishment that 

 his transfer must be considered as of greater 

 general advantage because it may be accom- 

 plished the earlier under private rather than 

 under university encouragement. The the- 

 oretical disadvantage wliich results to the 



university is in all likelihood offset by the 

 practical advantage -to be commonly gained. 

 Speculation is here invited as to what the 

 effect will be upon the teaching force of a 

 imiversity if the laJbor of research work of a 

 scientific character is to be taken over by 

 private corporations. We might imagine 

 affirmative and the negative coming to blows 

 over this thesis at least until the lessons of 

 experience have been written into the record. 

 — The New Haven Journal-Courier. 



A NEW STATISTICAL JOURNAL 



There has recently been foimded a new 

 international statistical journal called Metron. 

 It is published at Padua, Italy, at a sub- 

 scription price of 40 lire per year. The 

 printer, where subscriptions should be sent, is 

 the Tipografia Industrie grafiche Italiane, 

 Via Viscovado, Padova, Italy. The journal 

 will appear quarterly, each number comprising 

 150 to 200 pages. 



The founder and chief editor of Metron is 

 Professor Corrado Gini, of the University of 

 Padua. The fact that so brilliant and sound a 

 worker as Professor Gini is to be in charge at 

 once guarantees the scientific standing of the 

 journal in the statistical field. An inter- 

 national editorial board has been formed, 

 which now includes the following persons: 



Professor A. Andreadfes, de science des finances a 

 rUniversite de Atheues (Greece), 



Professor A. E. Bunge, direoteur de la Statistique 

 de la Republique Argentine, Buenos Ayres (Ar- 

 gentine) , 



Dr. F. P. Caiutelli, aetuaire wi Ministere du Tresor, 

 Rome (Italy), 



Dr. L. V. Furlan, libre doeent de statistique a 

 1 'University de Bfile (Switzerland), 



Dr. M. Greenwood, reader of medical statistics in 

 ithe University of London; statistician of the 

 Lister Instituite, London (England), 



Dr. A. JuUn, direoteur de la Statistique econom- 

 ique de la Belgique Ministfere de 1 'Industrie et 

 du Travail, Bruxelles (Belgium), 



Dr. G. H. Knibbs, direoteur de la Statistique de la 

 confederation australienne, Melbourne (Aus- 

 tralia) , 



Ing. L. March, direoteur de la Statistique ggnerale 

 de la France, Paris (Pranoe), 



