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•cataract features. These splendid evi- 

 dences of an ancient glacial drainage, ante- 

 dating Niagara and corresponding in func- 

 tion, should be made state property and 

 preserved for the people. They are scenic 

 features of as much beauty and of much 

 more educational value than Watkins Glen 

 and some other state parks. 



Herman L. Pairchild 

 Universitt of Eochester 



THE DIVISION OF EDUCATIONAL INQUIEY 

 UNDER THE CARNEGIE FOUNDATION 

 Mr. Ai^DREW Carnegie has given $1,250,000 

 to the Carnegie Foundation for the Advance- 

 ment of Teaching. The gift was announced 

 on the eleventh, at a meeting of the executive 

 committee at its offices, 576 Fifth Avenvie. 

 The gift is in the form of 4 per cent, bonds 

 and the income is to be set aside for special 

 investigation relative to the purposes of the 

 original foundation of pensioning college pro- 

 fessors. 



The announcement of the executive com- 

 mittee states that the money is to be devoted 

 to the endovcment of a Division of Educational 

 Enquiry and makes permanent provision for 

 studies hitherto conducted by the foundation 

 out of its general fund. It is the plan of the 

 trustees to proceed with the new endowment to 

 make other studies similar to those already 

 published concerning medical education and 

 in particular to study legal education in its 

 relation to the supply of lawyers and the cost 

 of legal process. 



Mr. Carnegie's letter to the trustees is as 

 follows : 



Carnegie Corporation of New York, 



January 31, 1913. 

 To THE Trustees of the Carnegie Foundation 

 FOR THE Advancement of Teaching. 

 Gentlemen: — Appreciatiiig the valuable results 

 of the educational studies of the Foundation and 

 being of opinion that it is desirable that a fund 

 be established to secure such results and conduct 

 such investigations as may aid you in your work 

 and realizing that sufficient income may not now 

 be available for that purpose, I hereby oiifer to the 

 foundation the sum of one million and a quarter 



dollars four (4) per cent, bonds, to be held and 

 used by the foundation upon the following terms: 



I. There shall be organized in the foundation an 

 agency for the study of education and educational 

 institutions, to be designated the Division of Edu- 

 cational Enquiry. 



II. Any endowment or funds conveyed to the 

 foundation for the use of such division shall con- 

 stitute and be held as a special fund and the 

 income alone be used and shall be accounted for 

 separately from the general funds of the founda- 

 tion and shall be devoted to the purposes herein- 

 after named. 



III. It shall be the function of the Division of 

 Educational Enquiry to conduct studies and to 

 make investigations concerning universities, col- 

 leges, professional schools, and systems of educa- 

 tion generally, to investigate problems of educa- 

 tion affecting the improvement of educational 

 methods, the advancement of teaching, or better- 

 ment of educational standards, and in general to 

 investigate and to report upon those educational 

 agencies which undertake to deal with the intel- 

 lectual, social and moral progress of mankind and 

 to publish such results as the trustees may consider 

 of value. 



IV. The income of the Division of Educational 

 Enquiry shall be used in the expenses incident to 

 the performance of the work of the Division of 

 Educational Enquiry as hereinbefore set forth, as 

 may from time to time be undertaken and pub- 

 lished by the foundation, but no part of the income 

 of the fund or funds specifically given for the use 

 of this division shall be used in the payment of 

 pensions. 



It is my purpose to aid the trustees of the 

 foundation to conduct their work upon broad lines 

 and to enable them to obtain such information as 

 will make the whole endowment of the Foundation 

 of the greatest possible service to mankind. 

 Yours truly, 

 (Signed) Andrew Carnegie, 



President. 



THE MILWAUKEE MEETING OF THE 

 AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY 

 The forty-seventh annual meeting of the 

 American Chemical Society wiU be held in 

 Milwaukee, Wisconsin, March 25 to 28, inclu- 

 sive. A meeting of the council will be held on 

 March 24, at the Hotel Pfister, which is the 

 hotel headquarters. The meetings will be held 

 at Marquette University, Grand Ave. and 11th 



