FEBRUARY 9, 1912] 
Henry H. Goddard, director of research in the 
Training School for Backward and Feeble- 
Minded Children, Vineland, N. J.; Guy 
Montrose Whipple, Cornell School of Educa- 
tion; Dr. G. S. ©. Badger, Boston, Mass.; 
David Snedden, Massachusetts Commissioner 
of Education; Dr. Thomas D. Wood, Teach- 
ers College, New York City; L. N. Hines, 
superintendent of schools, Crawfordsville, 
Ind.; William H. Burnham, professor of 
pedagogy and school hygiene, Clark Univer- 
sity; Dr. Leonard P. Ayres, Russell Sage 
Foundation; David Spence Hill, Tulane 
University; Miss Alice L. Griffith, San Fran- 
cisco; “Hygiene of Swimming Pools in 
Schools and Universities,” Dr. M. P. Ravenel, 
director, Wisconsin State Hygiene Labora- 
tory; “The Deaf Child,’ Dr. Helen Mac- 
Murechy, Toronto; “Contagious Skin Dis- 
eases in Relation to Schools,’ Dr. C. J. 
White, Boston; “ Defects in the School Cur- 
riculum in Physical Training shown by the 
Disabilities of College Students,” Dr. Dud- 
ley A. Sargent, Harvard University; “ Health 
Problems encountered in Home Visits to 
School Children,” Dr. A. E. Shipley, Brook- 
lyn, N. Y.; “The Mentally Defective Child,” 
Dr. Isabel Thompson Smart, New York City; 
“Recent Tests of Heating and Ventilating 
Apparatus in Public Schools,” Frank I. 
Cooper, Boston; “The Hygiene of the Kar,” 
Dr. C. J. Blake, Harvard Medical School; 
“Ventilation,” Dr. Luther H. Gulick, direc- 
tor, department of child hygiene, Russell Sage 
Foundation; “The Hygiene of the Nose and 
Throat,” Dr. E. A. Crockett, Boston; “ The 
Importance of School Hygiene from the 
School Committee Standpoint,” Joseph Lee, 
president, Playground Association of Amer- 
ica; “ Applications of Hygiene in a Prepara- 
tory School for Boys,” Dr. Elias G. Brown, 
director, the Mountain School for Boys, 
Allaben, N. Y.; “Scoliosis in Relation to 
School Life,” Dr. Robert W. Lovett, Harvard 
Medical School; “ Venereal Contagious Dis- 
eases in Children as affecting School Condi- 
tions,” Dr. W. P. Lucas, Harvard Medical 
School; “ Sewage Disposal in Rural Schools,” 
Dr. J. N. Hurty, state commissioner of 
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health, Indiana; “School Room Air and Its 
Relation to Disease,” Dr. M. J. Rosenau, 
Harvard Medical School, and “ Oral Hygiene,” 
by Dr. W. H. Potter, Harvard Dental School. 
THE ROCKEFELLER FOUNDATION 
Mr. Joun D. Rockereier has consented to 
a modification of his plan for the establish- 
ment of the Rockefeller Foundation under 
federal auspices in deference to criticism in 
congress and from other sources. 
The modified bill has been introduced in the 
senate and house. The changes in the scheme 
are: (1) Congress to retain the right to im- 
pose such limitations on the objects of the 
corporation as public interest may demand. 
(2) The total amount of property to be held 
by the Foundation is limited to $100,000,000. 
(8) The income of the corporation is not to 
be added to the principal. (4) The founda- 
tion may wind up its affairs in fifty years, or 
congress may do so after a century has passed. 
(5) Instead of being a self-perpetuating cor- 
poration, its new members are to be chosen 
subject to the veto of an outside body. 
SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 
Dr. Grorce Jarvis BrusH, emeritus pro- 
fessor of geology in the Sheffield Scientific 
School of Yale University, eminent for his 
contributions to the science of mineralogy, 
died on February 6, aged eighty years. 
Ir is proposed to have painted and to pre- 
sent to the American Philosophical Society a 
portrait of its president, Dr. William W. 
Keen, who, on January 19, celebrated his 
seventy-fifth birthday. 
Dr. Cuartes E. Munroe, professor of chem- 
istry and dean of the Faculty of Graduate 
Studies at George Washington University, 
who has completed his fortieth anniversary as 
an academic investigator, educator and ad- 
ministrator, will be given a banquet at the 
Cosmos Club, Washington, on the evening of 
February 23. 
Tue American Museum of Safety has pre- 
sented its gold medal to Dr. Alvah H. Doty 
for progress and achievement in the promo- 
tion of hygiene and sanitation and the miti- 
gation of occupational diseases. 
