May 3, 1912] 
are among the objects of contemplated visits. 
The President will have the assistance of a 
body of vice-presidents representative of the 
administrative, educational, ecclesiastical and 
commercial interests of Dundee and its neigh- 
borhood, headed by the Lord Provost of the 
city, Mr. James Urquhart, LL.D., and in the 
notice of entertainments to be arranged in 
connection with the meeting the names of the 
Earls of Moray, Strathmore and Camper- 
down and of Lord Kinnaird appear as hosts. 
PENSIONS AT THE UNIVERSITY OF 
CHICAGO 
As has already been noted in Science the 
trustees of the University of Chicago have ar- 
ranged a system of retiring allowances, and 
for this purpose propose to set aside a sum 
not less than $2,000,000. The trustees do not 
reserve the power of altering the statute to 
the disadvantage of those in the service of the 
university at the time it was enacted. The 
full statute reads as follows: 
1, Any person in the service of the university 
-and sixty-five years of age who holds the position 
of president of the university, director or associate 
director of the university libraries, or university 
examiner, and who has been for a period of fifteen 
years in the service of the university, in a rank 
not lower than assistant professor; and any person 
in the service of the university and sixty-five years 
of age, who has been, for a period of fifteen years 
in a rank not lower than assistant professor, a 
member of the teaching staff of the graduate 
schools of arts, literature and science, the graduate 
divinity school, the law school, or the colleges, may 
retire from active service, or be retired by the 
board of trustees on an annual allowance to be 
computed as follows: 
(a) For fifteen years’ service, 40 per cent. of 
the average annual salary received during the five 
years immediately preceding the time of retire- 
ment. 
(b) For each year of service beyond fifteen 
years, 2 per cent. of the said average annual salary. 
But no annual allowance shall exceed 60 per 
cent. of the said average annual salary, nor shall 
it exceed $3,000. 
A person between sixty-five and seventy years 
of age, eligible to a retiring allowance, may retire, 
or may be retired by the board of trustees; at the 
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age of seventy years he shall retire, unless the 
board of trustees specially continues his service. 
2. The widow of any person in receipt of, or 
eligible to, a retiring allowance at the time of his 
death, shall be entitled to one half of the amount 
of his allowance during the period of her widow- 
hood, provided she was his wife at the time of his 
retirement and had been his wife for not less than 
ten years before his death. 
3. No right or claim under this statute shall vest 
in, or acerue to, any person until a retiring allow- 
ance shall become due and payable under and in 
accordance with it; and the exercise of the right 
or power of the board of trustees to terminate the 
service, or reduce the salary, of any person shall 
not give to such person any claim or cause of 
action hereunder against the university. 
4. The board of trustees reserves the right to 
suspend the retiring allowance of any person, who, 
while in receipt of such allowance, accepts an 
appointment on the staff of any other institution 
of learning. 
5. The obligation of the university to pay re- 
tiring allowances shall be neither greater nor less 
than its obligation to pay salaries to persons in 
active service, so that if misfortune should compel 
a percentage reduction of salaries, retiring allow- 
ances may be reduced in the same proportion. 
6. Nothing in this statute shall preclude the 
board from granting other retiring allowances, or 
allowances on account of disability to officers of 
administration or instruction, or their widows, 
where the term and character of service, or the 
special circumstances of the case make the same 
appropriate, or from adding a term of years to 
the actual years of service of a person who enters 
the service of the university as an associate pro- 
fessor or of higher rank. 
7. The board of trustees retains the power to 
alter this statute, but the alteration shall not have 
any effect as to persons of the class or rank men- 
tioned in Art. 1, at the time of such alteration. 
SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 
Mrs. Mary Maury Wort, of Richmond, 
Va., and other descendants of Matthew Fon- 
taine Maury, the eminent hydrographer, have 
presented to the United States through Presi- 
dent Taft the Maury medals, commissions 
and correspondence. 
Dr. Kart Onun, professor of zoology at 
Leipzig, has been awarded by the University 
