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aminer, March 20-28, May 21-23, July 23-25, 

 $1,500 a year. 



Department of Agriculture: Assistant hor- 

 ticulturist, March 18, $1,800 to $2,200 a year; 

 superintendent of road construction, March 

 25, $150 to $250 a month ; assistant dairy hus- 

 bandman, March 26, $1,500 to $1,740 a year; 

 scientific assistant, April 22-23, $900 to $1,800 

 a year; United States Game Warden, May 7, 

 $1,500 a year; physical laboratory helper, 

 March 12, April 9, May 7, and June 4, $600 to 

 $900 a year. 



Department of Commerce: Physical labora- 

 tory helper, March 12, April 9, May 7, and 

 June 4, $600 to $900 a year; Bureau of Fish- 

 eries: Apprentice fish culturist, March 12, 

 April 9, May 7, and June 4, $000 to $960 a 

 year. Coast and Geodetic Survey: Marine 

 engineer, April 1, $100 to $140 a montli. 



Interdepartmental Social Hygiene Board: 

 Supervisor, social hygiene (open to -women 

 only), March 25, $2,000 to $2,500 a year; as- 

 sistant special agent, social hygiene (open 

 to women only), March 25, $600 to $1,000 a 

 year. 



National Advisory Committee for Aero- 

 nautics: Chief physicist, qualified in aero- 

 nautics, March 25, $3,000 a year; physicist, 

 March 25, $2,100 a year. 



Full information and application blanks 

 may be obtained by addressing the United 

 States Civil Service Commission at Washing- 

 ton, D. C, or the civil-sers'ice district secre- 

 tary at Boston, New York, Philadelphia, At- 

 lanta, Cincinnati, Chicago, St. Paul, St. Louis, 

 New Orleans, Seattle, or San Francisco. 



THE COMMITTEE ON GRANTS OF THE AMER- 

 ICAN ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCE- 

 MENT OF SCIENCE 



The Committee on Grants was appointed 

 by the council of the association to distribute 

 the annual appropriation for research. It is 

 intended that encouragement and support be 

 given to investigations in any of the fields 

 covered by the activities of the association. 

 For the current year the sum of $4,000 has 

 already been assigned, and will be available 

 on April 1. Preference will be given to appli- 

 cations in which definite statement is made 



of the nature of the problem, the main item 

 of expense, and the probable time for com- 

 pletion of the research. Recipients of grants 

 are expected to agree to the following con- 

 ditions : 



1. The work as outlined will be begun in the 

 near future and efforts will be made to com- 

 plete it at as early a date as possible. 



2. A report wUl be made to the secretary 

 of the committee on the completion and pub- 

 lication of the work, and in December of each 

 year until the work is completed. The reix>rts 

 will include a financial statement with vouch- 

 ers for the larger items. 



3. In the publication of the results the grant 

 from the Eesearch Fund of the American 

 Association for the Advancement of Science 

 will be acknowledged. 



The membership of the committee for the 

 year 1919 is : Henry Crew, chairman ; N. L. 

 Britton, W. B. Cannon, J. McK. Cattell, E. T. 

 Chamberlin, L. I. Dublin, G. N. Lewis, G. H. 

 Parker, Joel Stebbins, secretarj'. 



All applications for grants should be received 

 not later than March 15 by the secretary of 

 the comniittee, who will see that they are 

 properly considered. 



Joel Stebbins, 

 Secretary 

 unrversitt of illixois observatory, 

 TJrbana, III. 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 

 Professor Edward L. Nichols, who will 

 reach the age of sixty-five, on September 14, 

 has tendered his resignation of the professor- 

 j^hip of physics, at Cornell University, which 

 he has held since 1887. 



The Paris Academy of Sciences has elected 

 Major General Sir David Bruce, F.R.S., to be 

 a foreign correspondent in the section of med- 

 icine and surgery. 



Colonel Victor C. Vaughan, dean of the 

 medical school, of the University of ^Michigan, 

 will return to the university and resume his 

 duties for the second semester. Colonel 

 Vaughan has been in Washington since the 

 entrance of the United States into the war. 



