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faculty to volunteer for service at the outbreak 
of the war, joining the New York Engineer 
Corps. 
Proressor A. L. Danrets, Williams professor 
of mathematics in the University of Vermont, 
died on July 18, aged sixty-nine years. He 
was made professor emeritus, on the Carnegie 
Foundation, in 1914, after a service of twenty- 
nine years. 
Dr. E. W. Sanrorp, of the Johns Hopkins 
University faculty, has died in Centerville, 
Conn., from blood poisoning produced by ac- 
eidental inoculation while engaged in research 
work for the government. 
Dr. Lupwia Eprincer, director of the Neuro- 
logic Institute of Frankfort-on-Main, known 
for his work in the comparative anatomy of 
the nervous system, has died at the age of 
sixty-three years. 
Tue death is announced of Dr. Régis, pro- 
fessor of mental diseases at Bordeaux. 
Dr. Micuet Sancuez-Totepo, professor of 
physiology at the University of Havana, died 
on July 13. 
Girts to the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and 
Sciences ‘amounting to $70,000 were reported 
at the June meeting of the board of trustees. 
Of this amount $60,000 was given by Mr. Sam- 
uel P. Avery for the endowment of the Insti- 
tute’s department of education, and $10,000 
by two unnamed donors for the endowment of 
the Brooklyn Botanic Garden, a division of the 
institute. The terms of the Botanic Garden 
gift stipulate that it shall be known per- 
manently as the “Benjamin Stuart Gager 
Fund,” in memory of Director Gager’s little 
son who died last spring. 
Tue Bureau of Oil Conservation, Oil Divi- 
sion, U. S. Fuel Administration, is desirous of 
securing a combustion engineer for each of 
the following districts, who will act as an 
inspector visiting all plants within his dis- 
trict using fuel oil and natural gas: Boston, 
Providence, New York City, Philadelphia, 
Pittsburgh, Buffalo, Detroit, Chicago, Minne- 
apolis, Tulsa, New Orleans and San Francisco. 
It is desirable that these men should act as 
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volunteers where possible, but the Adminis- 
tration is prepared to pay a reasonable com- 
pensation for men who can not afford to give 
their services to the government. Only men 
who have had experience in fuel oil and nat- 
ural gas combustion would be of value. 
An editorial note in Nature asks: “Is the 
Carnegie Trust for the Universities of Scot- 
land doing its duty in strengthening and de- 
veloping scientific study and research? That 
is the question suggested by the report of a 
special committee published in the December 
number of the Journal of the British Science 
Guild. The question was first raised in an in- 
cisive manner by Professor Soddy in an article 
communicated to Science Progress (January, 
1917), and further inquiry seems to show that 
his contention is well founded. There may be 
some difference of opinion as to the exact in- 
terpretation of Clause A of the Trust Consti- 
tution; but there can be no doubt that the 
main object of the trust is to foster science, 
pure and applied, in all its branches, and to 
strengthen that side of university education 
which is of direct technical or commercial 
value. In the light of that general principle 
the following facts are well worthy of careful 
consideration: (1) Only 14 per cent. of the 
available funds have been expended on sci- 
entific research; (2) by endowment out of Car- 
negie Funds of certain scientific departments, 
money formerly spent in their maintenance has 
been diverted into other channls, so that the 
university on its scientific side has not really 
been strengthened ; (3) among the twenty-two 
members of the board of trustees, there have 
never been more, and have usually been fewer, 
than four who could be regarded as represent- 
ing science, the majority being practically igno- 
rant of the methods, and even the meaning, 
of research.” . 
UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL 
NEWS 
THe University of London has received a 
bequest of £2,000 for the engineering faculty 
of King’s College under the will of Lieutenant 
R. C. Hodson, a former student in the engi- 
nering department of the college, who was 
