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The U. S. Civil Service Commission an- 

 nounces an open competitive examination on 

 February 26, for forest pathologist, to fill a 

 vacancy, at a salary ranging from $1,980 to 

 $2,400 a year, in the Bureau of Plant Indus- 

 try, Department of Agriculture, for service 

 either in Washington, D. C, or in the field. 

 On February 26 there will be examinations for 

 scientific assistant of Boil surveying in the 

 Bureau of Soils, at salaries ranging from 

 $960 to $1,200 a year, and for assistant irriga- 

 tion engineer in the office of Experiment Sta- 

 tions at salaries ranging from $1,200 to $1,600. 



Articles of incorporation for the " Eocke- 

 feller Foundation " to administer a fund of 

 $100,000,000 to be given by Mr. John D. Eock- 

 efeller, were passed on January 21 by the 

 House of Eepresentatives by a vote of 152 to 

 65. The measure now goes to the Senate. 

 The bill, introduced by Eepresentative Peters, 

 of Massachusetts, names as the incorporators 

 to administer the fund, John D. Eockefeller, 

 John D. Eockefeller, Jr., Frederick T. Gates, 

 Starr J. Murphy, Harry Pratt Judson, Simon 

 Flexner, Edwin A. Alderman, Wickliffe Eose 

 and Charles O. Heydt, and such persons " as 

 they may associate with themselves." The ob- 

 ject of the foundation is " to promote the well- 

 being and to advance the civilization of the 

 peoples of the United States and its territories 

 and of foreign lands in the dissemination of 

 knowledge, in the prevention and relief of suf- 

 fering and in the promotion of eleemosynary 

 and philanthropic means of any and all of the 

 elements of human progress." 



At the instance of the Southern Commer- 

 cial Congress the governors of some of the 

 states are appointing two delegates each to go 

 to Europe about April 26 and to remain there 

 three months studying the system of rural 

 credits and land banks there existing, with a 

 view to adapting the system to this country. 



Arrangements have been completed by 

 which the American agency for the following 

 journals of the Cambridge University Press 

 will be in the hands of the University of Chi- 

 cago Press, beginning January 1, 1913 : Bio- 

 metrika. Parasitology, Journal of Genetics, 

 the Journal of Hygiene, the Modern Lan- 



guage Eeview, the British Journal of Psy- 

 chology and the Journal of Agricultural Sci- 

 ence. 



The will of Alfred Samson, who died re- 

 cently at Brussels, provides for an endowment 

 of $500,000 for the Prussian Academy of Sci- 

 ences and $100,000 for the Bavarian Academy 

 of Sciences, at Berlin and Munich. The en- 

 dowments are stated to be for investigations 

 which afford a prospect of raising the moral- 

 ity and well being of the individual and of 

 social life, including the history and prehis- 

 tory of ethics, and anthropologic, ethnologic, 

 geographic, geologic and meteorologic influ- 

 ences as they have affected the mode of life, 

 character and morals of man. 



The Woman's Medical Association of New 

 York City offers the Mary Putnam Jacobi 

 Fellowship of $800 available for postgraduate 

 study. It is open to any woman graduate of 

 medicine. The amount of the endowment to 

 date will permit of a biennial award, and upon 

 the completion of the fund, this will be made 

 annually. The fellowship will not be awarded 

 by competitive examination, but upon proof 

 of ability and promise of success in the chosen 

 line of work. Applications for the year 1913- 

 1914 must be in the hands of the committee 

 on award by April 1, 1913. 



On February 6, 7 and 8, 1913, in the elec- 

 trical laboratory of the University of Illinois, 

 the students of the department of electrical 

 engineering will give their triennial electrical 

 show. Although under student management, 

 it will be by no means wholly a student show, 

 as many manufacturing and sales companies 

 in the electrical trade will offer exliibits. 

 Among the exhibits will be isolated lighting 

 plants, heating and cooking accessories, tele^ 

 phone, telegraph, and wireless apparatus, lift- 

 ing magnets, motor controllers, high frequency 

 machinery and a complete electrically operated 

 cafe. Student demonstrators or manufac- 

 turers' representatives will be in charge of 

 each exhibit. One special feature planned in 

 connection with the show is an exhibit of all 

 types and methods of electrical lighting. 

 This will be in charge of students of electrical 

 illumination who will discuss with interested 



