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light it throws on his provision of pensions 

 for professors — it is announced that Mr. Car- 

 negie has transferred $125,000,000 to the Car- 

 negie Corporation of New York incorporated 

 tinder the act of the legislature introduced on 

 March 22 last year. This corporation has 

 eight trustees, five of whom are the heads of 

 the five institutions which Mr. Carnegie has 

 founded — the Carnegie Endowment for Inter- 

 national Peace, the Carnegie Foundation for 

 the Advancement of Teaching, the Carnegie 

 Institution of Washington, the Carnegie Hero 

 Fund, and the Carnegie Institute of Pitts- 

 burgh. The heads of these are Senator Elihu 

 Eoot, Dr. Henry S. Pritchett, Dr. Eobert S. 

 Woodward, Mr. Charles L. Taylor and Dr. 

 William N. Frew. The other three trustees 

 are Mr. Carnegie, Mr. Eobert A. Franks, 

 president of the Home Trust Company, and 

 Mr. James Bertram, Mr. Carnegie's secretary. 

 By the act of the legislature the incorporators 

 were authorized " to receive and maintain a 

 fund and apply the income to promote the ad- 

 vancement and diffusion of knowledge among 

 the people of the United States by aiding tech- 

 nical schools, institutions of higher learning, 

 libraries, scientific research, hero funds, useful 

 publications, and by such other agencies and 

 means as shall from time to time be found 

 appropriate." 



After the annual meeting of the trustees of 

 the Carnegie Foundation for the Advance- 

 ment of Teaching last week it was announced 

 that forty-eight pensions and retirement al- 

 lowances had been granted during the year, 

 making a total of three hundred and ninety- 

 eight now in force at an annual expenditure 

 of $570,000. Dr. William F. Slocum, presi- 

 dent of Colorado College, was elected to the 

 vice-chairmanship of the board to fill the 

 place of Dr. David Starr Jordan, resigned. En- 

 dowments of the Foundation now amount to 

 $14,000,000, Mr. Carnegie having added 

 $2,000,000 since the meeting of the trustees a 

 year ago. The foundation was created with a 

 fund of $10,000,000 and a promise of $5,000,- 

 000 more from Mr. Carnegie when it was 

 needed for the state universities. The gift an- 



nounced last week makes three of the ad- 

 ditional five million; during the first years of 

 the foundation's existence it saved $1,000,000 

 of its income. 



The U. S. Civil Service Commission an- 

 nounces a competitive examination for in- 

 organic chemist, for men only, on December 

 4 to fill vacancies in this position in the 

 Bureau of Insular Affairs, Philippine Service, 

 at salaries ranging from $1,400 to $2,000 a 

 year. 



The Illinois Civil Service Commission ex- 

 pects to hold an examination in Chicago on 

 December 14, 1912, to furnish an eligible list 

 for the position of curator of the State Mu- 

 seum. Applicants are not restricted to resi- 

 dence in Illinois but the law requires that 

 they must be geologists and over twenty-five 

 years of age. The present salary is $250 per 

 month. The examination will cover the train- 

 ing and experience of the applicant and in 

 addition will include questions on geology and 

 natural science, museum organization and ad- 

 ministration and methods of collection and 

 exhibition of specimens in large museums. 

 A portion of the examination will be oral. 

 This is the first time that such an examina- 

 tion has ever been held for scientific positions 

 in the state service of Illinois. 



The committee in charge of the Sarah Ber- 

 liner Eesearch Fellowship for Women offers 

 annually a fellowship of the value of one 

 thousand dollars, available for study and re- 

 search in physics, chemistry or biology, in 

 either America or Europe. This fellowship 

 is open to women holding the degree of doctor 

 of philosophy, or to those similarly equipped 

 for the work of further research. Applica- 

 tions for this fellowship must be in the hands 

 of the chairman of the committee, Mrs. Chris- 

 tine Ladd Franklin, 527 Cathedral Parkway, 

 New York, by the first of January of each 

 year. 



Section F of the American Association for 

 the Advancement of Science will hold one 

 session at Cleveland for the address of Vice- 

 president Nachtrieb. All papers will be re- 



