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107, 



about 104 feet by 92 feet by 51 feet high, and 

 will be built of red brick and stone. It will be 

 situated in tbe Parks close to tbe other build- 

 ings devoted to science, which are grouped 

 around the museum. The ground floor will 

 contain a class-room 50 feet by 27 feet, a 

 workshop of about the same dimensions, as 

 well as research, battery and dark rooms. On 

 the first floor provision is made for a lecture- 

 hall 36 feet square and two class-rooms over 

 50 feet long, while on the second floor there 

 will be a class-room about 100 feet long, be- 

 sides large lecture and research rooms. 



The President of the United States has in- 

 structed the Commissioner of Education to 

 aid in all appropriate ways within his power 

 in the carrying out of the plans of the Chin- 

 ese Government for the education of students 

 in America. The Chinese Government pur- 

 poses sending 100 students to America every 

 year for four years, and a minimum of 50 

 students every year thereafter during the 

 period of the cancelled indemnity payments 

 by China to the United States, from 1909 to 

 1940. 



Professor Donald J. Cowling, of Baker 

 University, Baldwin, Kas., was elected presi- 

 dent of Carleton College, Northfield, Minn., 

 to succeed the Eev. E. H. Salbnon. 



Me. W. H. Emmons, of the U. S. Geological 

 Survey, is giving courses on petrography and 

 economic geology at the University of Chi- 

 cago. 



Dr. a. J. Grout has been appointed first 

 assistant in biology in the Curtis High 

 School, New Brighton, Staten Island. 



Dr. Arnold Lang, of Zurich, has dfeclined 

 the call to Jena as the successor of Professor 

 Haeckel. 



Professor Pfluger, of Breslau, has been 

 called to Berlin as director of the Institute of 

 Hygiene in the place of Professor Eubner who 

 has been transferred to the chair of physi- 



DISGV88I0N AND CORRESPONDENCE 

 A DISCLAIMER 



Hardly had the esperimental researches at 

 the Nutrition Laboratory of the Carnegie In- 



stitution of Washington, located in Boston, 

 been established when the scientific staff were 

 besieged by innumerable newspaper reporters 

 seeking information whereon they could base 

 sensational articles for distribution in the 

 public press. Much to my regret, a lengthy 

 article was distributed broadcast throughout 

 the American press on December 20, purport- 

 ing to describe the Nutrition Laboratory, the 

 experiments made therein, and the plans for 

 the future. It is needless to say that the 

 whole article was prepared without my knowl- 

 edge and has left an entirely erroneous im- 

 pression with regard to the work of this in- 

 stitution. 



Briefly, the researches now being carried out 

 in Boston were instituted by Professor At- 

 water, at Wesleyan University, some fifteen 

 years ago. After Professor Atwater's un- 

 timely retirement, I had charge of the re- 

 searches at Wesleyan University and since 

 then they have been transferred to Boston to 

 a special laboratory. The apparatus used at 

 Wesleyan University has been described in 

 detail in Publication No. 42 of the Carnegie 

 Institution of Washington and a discussion of 

 a series of experiments with it made on man 

 during inanition was reported in Publication 

 No. 77 of the institution. The forthcoming 

 " Tear-book of the Carnegie Institution " con- 

 tains a short statement of the laboratory, the 

 plan, and general information regarding it. 

 The newer calorimeters have not been de- 

 scribed as yet. All results of experiments 

 made in this laboratory will be published in 

 regularly accredited scientific journals and in 

 the reports published by the Carnegie Institu- 

 tion of Washington. It has been my policy 

 not to publish original scientific material in 

 popular scientific or semi-scientific magazines, 

 much less would I use the daily newspaper as 

 a vehicle for presenting this material to the 

 scientific public. 



In connection with the last newspaper an- 

 nouncement regarding this laboratory, there is 

 a very unfortunate statement that as a result 

 of experiments thus far made in the labora- 

 tory, the treatment of diabetes would be ma- 

 terially modified and improved, thus holding 

 out hope to the large number afflicted with this 



