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SCIENCE 



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years of active service shall be considered the 

 active pay. 



Retiring allowances shall be granted under 

 the following rules, upon the application of the 

 institution with which the professor is con- 

 nected. Application blanks for this purpose 

 are furnished by the foundation. The ground 

 upon which the application is recommended, 

 whether it is upon the basis of age or upon the 

 basis of service, should be stated in each case. 



1. Basis of Age. — ^Any person sixty-five years of 

 age, who has had not less than fifteen years of 

 service as a professor and who is at the time a 

 professor in an accepted institution, shall be 

 entitled to an annual retiring allowance, com- 

 puted as follows: 



(a) For an active pay of twelve hundred dol- 

 lars or less, an allowance of one thousand dollars, 

 providing no retiring allowance shall exceed ninety 

 per cent, of the active pay. 



( 6 ) For an active pay greater than twelve hun- 

 dred dollars the retiring allowance shall equal 

 one thousand dollars, increased by fifty dollars 

 for each one hundred dollars of active pay in 

 excess of twelve hundred dollars. 



(o) No retiring allowance shall exceed four 

 thousand dollars. 



Computed by the formula: 5 = 4/2 + 400 

 where B = annual retiring allowance, A = 

 active pay. 



2. Basis of Service. — ^Any person who has had a 

 service of twenty-five years as a professor, and 

 who is at the time a professor in an accepted 

 institution, shall be entitled to a retiring allow- 

 ance computed as follows: 



{a) For an active pay of twelve hundred dol- 

 lars or less, a retiring allowance of eight hundred 

 dollars, provided that no retiring allowance shall 

 exceed eighty per cent of the active pay. 



(6) For an active pay greater than twelve hun- 

 dred dollars, the retiring allowance shall equal 

 eight hundred dollars, increased by forty dollars 

 for each one hundred dollars in excess of twelve 

 hundred dollars. 



(o) For each additional year of service above 

 twenty-five, the retiring allowance shall be in- 

 creased by one per cent, of the active pay. 



(d) No retiring allowance shall exceed four 

 thousand dollars. 



Computed by the formula: B=A/100(l + 

 15) + 320 where B = retiring allowance, A =^ 

 active pay and h = number of years of service. 



3. Any person who has been for ten years the 



wife of a professor either in receipt of a pension 

 or entitled to receive one shall receive during her 

 widowhood one half of the allowance to which her 

 husband was entitled. 



4. In the preceding rules, years of leave of ab- 

 sence are to be counted as years of service, but 

 not exceeding one year in seven. Librarians, regis- 

 trars, recorders and administrative officers of long 

 tenure, whose salaries may be classed with those 

 of professors and assistant professors, are con- 

 sidered eligible to the benefits of a retiring allow- 

 ance. 



5. Teachers in the professional departments of 

 universities, whose principal work is outside the 

 profession of teaching, are not included. 



6. The benefits of the foundation shall not be 

 available to those whose active service ceased be- 

 fore April 16, 1905, the date of Mr. Carnegie's 

 original letter to the trustees. 



7. In counting years of service toward a retiring 

 allowance, it is not necessary that the whole of 

 the service shall have been given in institutions 

 upon the accepted list of the foundation. 



8. In no case shall any allowance be paid to a 

 teacher who continues to give the whole or part 

 of his time to the work of teaching as a membsr 

 of the instructing staff of a college or technical 

 school. 



9. The Carnegie Foundation for the Advance- 

 ment of Teaching retains the power to alter these 

 rules in such manner as experience may indicate 

 as desirable for the benefit of the whole body of 

 teachers. 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 



The Berlin Academy of Sciences has 

 awarded its Helmholtz medal to Professor 

 Emil Fischer, for his work on the sugars and 

 albuminoids. 



Dr. Frank D. Adams, dean of the faculty 

 of applied science and professor of geology at 

 McGill TJniversity, has been elected an hon- 

 orary life member of the Institute of Mining, 

 and Metallurgy of Great Britain. 



The Eoyal Society of Arts has presented 

 its Albert medal to Sir James Dewar, F.R.S., 

 for his investigations into the liquefaction of 

 gases and the properties of matter at low tem- 

 peratures. 



The managers of the department of archeol- 

 ogy of the University of Pennsylvania have 

 awarded the Lucy Wharton Drexel medal, for 



