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future plans iiud to gather inspiration from tlieiv 

 fellows after the manner of scientific societies 

 generally, in this way using the combined knowl- 

 edge of the association to advance the work; 



3. By appealing for the support of Audubon 

 societies all over the country on the ground that 

 bird banding is a bird-protection movement, since 

 to an important extent it will be xiossible in the 

 future to substitute an examination of a live 

 bird for the study of a dead one; 



4. By ensuring as far as possible the perma- 

 nence of the movement by means of institutional 

 trapping stations operated by or in connection 

 with Audubon societies, natural history societies, 

 bird clubs, departments of ornithology or zoology 

 at colleges and universities, bird sanctuaries, 

 state and national parks, etc., in addition to sta- 

 tions operated by individuals; and 



5. By establishing a convenient local depository 

 of all bird-banding records made by members (an 

 exact copy of the same of course being sent to 

 the Biological Survey) in appropriate cjuarters 

 where they may be studied by members of the 

 association and otliers. 



Charles L. Whittle 

 Cajibridge, Massachusetts 



SCIENTIFIC EVENTS 



CONFERENCE ON BUSINESS TRAINING OF 



THE ENGINEER AND ENGINEERING 



TRAINING FOR STUDENTS OF 



BUSINESS 



The United States Commissioner oi Eduea- 

 tion is calling a second public conference on 

 commercial engineering- on behalf of a com- 

 mittee on commercial engineering appointed by 

 liim to investigate business training of engineers 

 and engineering training for students of busi- 

 ness. 



The conference will be held May 1 and 2 

 at the Carnegie Institute of Technology in 

 Pittsburgh. President Arthur Hamerschlag of 

 this institution is a member of the committee 

 ■ffhieh is composed of prominent -deans of 

 schools of engineering, and of commerce in our 

 larger universities, and of engineers and busi- 

 ness men wiio are nationally known for their 

 interest in the reduction of the costs of pro- 

 duction, distribution, transportation, etc., 

 through Ijetter training in schools and colleges 

 of the personnel of industry and commerce. 



The conference will be open to the public. 

 Invitatioiis to appoint delegates to the Pitts- 

 burgh Conference, however, will be sent by the 

 commissioner of education to commercial and 

 ti'ade organizations, engineering and scientific 

 societies, educational institutions and other 

 groups as well as to prominent individuals. 



Owing to the timeliness of the subject, the 

 conference in Pittsburgh will even have greater 

 national significanee than the first public con- 

 ference on this question, which was held in 

 Washington two and one half years ago under 

 the direction of this committee on commercial 

 engineering of which Dr. Glen Levin Swiggett 

 of the Bureau of Education is chairman. He 

 says: 



The four major topics of the conference will be 

 presented and discussed at general and round 

 table sessions by business men, educators and 

 engineers, contributing- to the construction of a 

 cooperative program between education and busi- 

 ness for the better coordination of all productive 

 and distributive processes in trade and com- 

 merce. It is planned to have the second confer- 

 ence even more constructive than the first, since 

 which time the curricula of 29 of the 119 engi- 

 neering colleges reporting to the Bureau of Edu- 

 cation have been favorably modified to include 

 one or more of the four committee recommenda- 

 tions. Outstanding topics at the Pittsburgh eon- 

 fereiico will deal with the new problems tliat have 

 recently arisen in modern industries, the solution 

 of \vhich demands a more scientific approach to 

 include job anah'ses and personnel specifications 

 and a, translation of these into a new and teach- 

 able content for use in our engineering and com- 

 merce schools ; with the training of the engineer 

 for a better understanding of problems relating 

 to community development; and with the training 

 of the engineer for management of overseas engi- 

 neering projects. 



GIFT OF THE ROCKEFELLER FOUNDATION 

 FOR A SCHOOL OF HYGIENE IN LONDON 

 According to a press dispatch to the New 

 York Times the British minister of health an- 

 nounced on February 21 that the Rockefeller 

 Foundation had offered to provide $2,000,000 

 toward the cost of building and equipping a 

 school of hygiene in London. This offer is on 

 the understanding that the British Government 



