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erect buildings for the purposes of this endowment, 

 and to purchase sites for the same, but only from 

 the income of the endowment. 



I direct that all the equipment required to illus- 

 trate teaching or to give students opportunity to 

 practise, whether instruments, diagrams, tools, ma- 

 chines or apparatus, be always kept of the best 

 design and quality, so that no antiquated super- 

 seded, or unserviceable implement or machinery 

 shall ever be retained in the lecture rooms, work- 

 shops or laboratories maintained from the endow- 

 ment. 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 



Dr. Alexander Graham Bell, inventor of 

 the telephone, was awarded the Civic Forum 

 Gold Medal for distinguished public service 

 in JSTew York on March 21. The presentation 

 address was made by Dr. John H. Finley, state 

 commissioner of education. Dr. Bell is the 

 third recipient of the medal. It was awarded 

 to Major General George W. Goethals in 1914, 

 and to Thomas A. Edison in 1915. 



E. W. EiCE, Jr., of Schenectady, IST. T., has 

 been nominated by the board of directors of 

 the American Institute of Electrical Engi- 

 neers as president for the coming year. 



Dr. Charles D. Walcott, secretary of the 

 Smithsonian Institution, has been elected 

 chairman, and Dr. S. W. Stratton, of the 

 Bureau of Standards, secretary of the military 

 committee of the National Research Council. 



A RESEAECH Committee to cooperate with the 

 iNTational Research Council has been appointed 

 by President W. H. P. Faunce, of Brown Uni- 

 versity. The committee includes from the 

 faculty Carl Barns, physics, Albert D. Mead, 

 biology, Roland G. D. Richardson, mathe- 

 matics, and John E. Bucher, chemistry; from 

 the university corporation Chancellor Arnold 

 B. Chace and Edwin Farnham Greene, treas- 

 urer of the Pacific Mills; from the alumni 

 J. B. F. HerreshofF, of the Nichols Chemical 

 Company, Charles V. Chapin, of the Provi- 

 dence board of health, John C. Hebden, of the 

 Federal Dyestuffs Corporation and Frank E. 

 Winsor. 



Professor von Grutzner has resigned as 

 director of the Physiological Institute, Berlin, 

 because of advanced age. 



Dr. Ralph E. Hall, assistant professor of 

 inorganic chemistry at the Iowa State College, 

 has resigned to accept a position in the geo- 

 physical laboratory of the Carnegie Institution, 

 "Washington, D. C. 



About a year ago Professor M. A. Rosanoff, 

 of the Mellon Institiite, University of Pitts- 

 burgh, and Professor W. D. Harkins, of the 

 University of Chicago, exchanged one week's 

 service. Dr. Rosanoff lecturing on chemical 

 kinetics at Chicago and Dr. Harkins lecturing 

 on the periodic law at Pittsburgh. This spring 

 the exchange will be repeated, but extended in 

 time to six weeks. Dr. Rosanoff has been in- 

 vited to deliver at Chicago a full university 

 course of lectures on stereo-chemistry and a 

 briefer one on his theory of chemical reactions. 

 At the same time, namely, from early in April 

 to about May 12, Dr. Harkins will give a full 

 graduate course of lectures on thermo-chemis- 

 try at the Mellon Institute and the graduate 

 school. University of Pittsburgh. 



Harrison W. Carver, who has been con- 

 nected with the Carnegie Library of Pitts- 

 burgh for seventeen years and has been chief 

 librarian there since 1908, has been appointed 

 director of the library of the American Engi- 

 neering Societies in New York City. Mr. 

 Carver has tendered his resignation in Pitts- 

 burgh and is expected to begin his new work 

 in April. 



A THIED relief expedition will be sent to the 

 Arctic this summer by the American Museum 

 of Natural History to bring home the mem- 

 bers of the Crocker Land expedition, which 

 went north in 1913. The latest word of the 

 expedition came from Dr. Hovey in a letter 

 dated July 10, 1916, and was brought out by 

 the Cluette last September. At that time all 

 were well. The second relief ship, the Dan- 

 ■marh, was reported in Melville Bay, 150 miles 

 southeast of Capt York, on August 20, 1916. 

 Admiral Peary and others think she probably 

 reached North Star Bay at least and that the 

 explorers are on board. The third vessel will 

 be sent to Etah, leaving St. John's early in 

 July. The committee hopes to obtain a New- 

 foundland sealer for this purpose and to bring 



