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[N. S. YOL. XLV. No. 1159 



to Finislied Pipe " (illustrated with motion 

 pictures), by Mr. C. F. Eolaiid, New Tork rep- 

 resentative, metallurgical department, Na- 

 tional Tube Co. Marcb 2, " New Method for 

 Nitrogen Fixation," experimental, showing 

 utilization of home-made apparatus, by Dr. J. 

 E. Bucher, professor of chemistry, Brown Uni- 

 versity. March 16, " Chemical Structure and 

 the Biological Function of Tissue Elements," 

 by Dr. P. A. Levene, Rockefeller Institute. 

 March 23, " The Conservation of Pine Forests 

 through the Methods of Chemical Research " 

 (illustrated by specimens and stereopticon), by 

 Dr. Chas. H. Herty, editor of the Journal of 

 Industrial and Engineering Chemistry. 

 March 30, " The Getting of Wisdom," by Dr. 

 H. K. Mees, director research department, 

 Eastman Kodak Co. April 13, " Colloids in 

 Pharmacy " (illustrated and experimental), by 

 Dr. John TJri Lloyd, manufacturer, chief chem- 

 ist, investigator and novelist. April 27, 

 " Some Chemistry of the Tropics " (illus- 

 trated from recent observation), by Dr. L. H. 

 Friedburg, professor emeritus of the College of 

 the City of New Tork. 



Dr. Thomas H. Haines, professor of nervous 

 and mental diseases at Ohio State University, 

 has five months' leave of absence from his work 

 at the university and from the Bureau of 

 Juvenile Research, and is making a state 

 survey of mental defectives in Kentucky. A 

 state commission on the feebleminded was ap- 

 pointed in May, 1916, by Governor Stanley in 

 accordance with a resolution adopted by the 

 General Assembly in March, 1916. Dr. Haines 

 was appointed director of the survey and sent 

 to the commission in Kentucky by the Na- 

 tional Committee for Mental Hygiene, and the 

 Rockefeller Foundation, without cost to the 

 state of Kentucky. Kentucky presents a 

 peculiarly fertile field in which to secure social 

 economics in the management of defectives. 

 By the terms of the Pauper Idiot Act, the, sub- 

 stance of which has been on the statute books 

 since the second year of the commonwealth, 

 1Y93, any person who is proved to be without 

 estate and mentally feeble, to the satisfaction 

 of a jury, and is so certified to the state auditor, 

 may draw annually from the state treasury, 

 through his committee seventy-five dollars for 



his maintenance. Last year more than twenty- 

 two hundred such pauper idiots cost Ken- 

 tucky by this means alone $165,000. This 

 method is said to encourage the propagation 

 of the mentally incompetent. 



Mr. and Mrs. Gilbert H. Grosvenor have 

 given to the American Association to Pro- 

 mote the Teaching of Speech to the Deaf a 

 trust fund of $5,000 to establish an " Alex- 

 ander Graham Bell Grosvenor Memorial 

 Fund," in memory of their second son, who 

 died March 6, 1915. In accepting this memo- 

 rial fund the directors resolved that the in- 

 come shall be used in paying for the publica- 

 tion and distribution of literature that will 

 help parents to intelligently train and teach 

 deaf children in the home prior to school age, 

 and that every publication paid for from the 

 income of this fund shall bear on the title page 

 an inscription stating that it is a publication 

 of the Alexander Graham Bell Grosvenor 

 Memorial Fund. Following a suggestion from 

 the donors, the directors decided to offer $300, 

 a sum equivalent to the first year's income, for 

 the best essay on the subject of " Teaching 

 and Training Little Deaf Children in the 

 Home." A decision on the essays submitted 

 will shortly be made by the judges, who are 

 Mr. and Mrs. Edmund Lyon, Rochester, N. T., 

 Dr. and Mrs. A. L. E. Crouter, Mr. Airy, 

 Philadelphia, Pa., and Mr. and Mrs. Gilbert 

 H. Grosvenor, Washington, D. C. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL 



NEWS 

 Washburn College at Topeka, Kansas, has 

 just added $500,000 to its permanent endow- 

 ment fund. Of this sum $200,000 was con- 

 tributed by citizens of Topeka, $200,000 con- 

 sists of contributions secured by President 

 Womer outside of Topeka and $100,000 was 

 given by the General Education Board. 



The University of California is to receive 

 $10,000 as a library endowment by bequest 

 from Horace Davis, president of the univer- 

 sity from 1888 to 1890. 



It has been decided to make the erection of 

 new science buildings for the University Col- 

 lege of North Wales, Bangor, the North Wales 



