August U, 1908] 



SCIENCE 



209' 



Mr. B. E. Porter, instructor in animal 

 husbandry of the Maryland Agricultural Col- 

 lege, has been elected professor of agricultural 

 animal husbandry in the Hawaii Agricultural 

 College. 



Dr. J. M. Eeade, formerly fellow in botany 

 in Cornell University and during the past 

 year instructor in botany in the University 

 of Georgia, has been made professor of botany 

 in the latter institution. 



Dr. Herbert G. Keppel, of Northwestern 

 University, has been elected head of the de- 

 partment of mathematics of the University 

 of Florida. 



Dr. Eudolf Tombo, Jr., while continuing 

 in his professional duties, has accepted the 

 secretaryship of the alumni council of Co- 

 lumbia University. 



T. Slater Jackson, B.A., M.D., CM., has 

 been reappointed demonstrator in the biolog- 

 ical department of McGill University, after 

 an absence of three years, during which he 

 visited the tropical seas of Africa and Asia. 



The following appointments have been 

 made at University College, London: Mr. H. 

 M. Hobart, B.Sc, to the newly created 

 lectureship in electrical design; Mr. E. E. 

 Middleton, to the lectureship in municipal 

 engineering for the session 1908-9; Dr. A. 

 W. Stewart, to the lectureship in stereo-chem- 

 istry, for the session 1908-9 ; Mr. G. C. Mathi- 

 son, M.B., B.S., to the Sharpey research 

 scholarship in physiology; Mr. W. E. Stanton, 

 to be demonstrator in the department of ap- 

 plied mathematics, and Mr. H. S. Bion, to be 

 demonstrator in the department of geology. 



Professor Adolf Kneser, of Breslau, has 

 declined a call to a chair of mathematics at 

 Leipzig. 



DISCUSSION AND CORRESPONDENCE 



THE ANNUAL APPROPRIATION FOR SALARIES OF 



THE INSTRUCTING STAFF AT BRYN MAWR 



COLLEGE 



To THE Editor of Science: The reader of 

 the article on " The Salaries of Professors 

 in American Colleges and Universities" that 

 appeared in Science, July 24, is led to con- 

 clusions that are clearly impossible when con- 



sidering the data concerning Bryn Mawr Col- 

 lege given in Table IL along with the data on- 

 " Academic Appointments " that are to be 

 found in the Bryn Mawr College programs. 

 The following calculations for the academic- 

 year 1905-6 illustrate this fact : 



Annual 

 Number of dTf "^-n Expendi- 



e^a'ih Grade -.^ ^^ 



Grade 

 Professor 8 $2,500 820,000' 



Grade of 

 Academic 

 Appoint- 

 ment 



Assoc. Pro_f. 

 Associate 



15 



$2,500 

 2,000 10,000- 



1,500 22,500 



Tlierefore 31 received $58,500' 



at an average salary of $1,887.09 

 President 1 $8,000 8,000) 



Therefore 32 salaries use $66,500 



Total appropriated for 47 salaries 106,687 



Balance for 15 salaries $40,187 



at an average salary of $2,679.13 



According to the program, these 15 remain- 

 ing members of the staff consisted of 3 lee-- 

 turers, 9 readers andi 3 demonstrators. It 

 follows that in this academic year members, 

 of the staff in the higher ranks of professor,, 

 associate professor and associate averaged only 

 seven tenths as much salary as members of 

 the staff in the lower ranks of lecturer, reader ■ 

 and demonstrator. 



When the data for the academic years 

 1904-5 and 1906-7 are treated in the same 

 way, it is found that average salaries in the 

 higher ranks mentioned were $1,879.31 and' 

 $1,983.33, respectively, while the average sal- 

 aries in the lower ranks were $2,454.83 and 

 $2,177.05. In the first of these years the staff 

 numbered 48, and in the second, 49. The 

 other years to which the figures in your table- 

 might have referred are 1902-3, 1903-4 and' 

 1907-8, but these years are excluded because 

 the instructing staffs, according to the college- 

 programs, numbered 50, 51 and 54, respect- 

 ively, while the number in your table is 47. 



Only two assumptions have been used in 

 making the calculations given above. The 

 first is that the president receives $8,000. It- 

 will be clear to you that if this assumption 

 involves an error of $2,000, more or less, this- 

 does not have any very great effect on, the- 

 conclusions. The other assumption is that- 



