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For state agents for rural schools, $53,200. 



For rural education of negroes, $50,974. 



For current support of negro colleges and indus- 

 trial schools, $102,200. 



For farm demonstrations, including canning 

 club work and boys' corn and tomato clubs in 

 Maine and New Hampshire, $36,500. 



Additional appropriations for various projects, 

 aggregating $80,000, of which the sum of $50,000 

 was given for the purpose of promoting educa- 

 tional studies and research. 



In making this last appropriation of $50,000 

 for educational research the board is continu- 

 ing a policy begun two years ago. 



It was also announced that Frederick T. 

 Gates, who has been Mr. Rockefeller's adviser 

 in benefactions for many years, had resigned 

 from the chairmanship of the board. He is to 

 be succeeded by Dr. Wallace Buttrick, who 

 has been secretary. Mr. Buttrick's place is 

 taken by Dr. Abraham Flexner. 



THE RAMSAY MEMORIAL FUND 



As was noted in Science at the time a pub- 

 lic meeting was held last October at Univer- 

 sity College, London, to consider the best 

 means of establishing a memorial to the late 

 Sir William Eamsay. We learn from Nature 

 that since then the organization of the appeal 

 has been set up and is now complete. Mr. H. 

 H. Asquith has consented to act as president 

 of the fund, whilst the vice-presidents include 

 the ambassadors and ministers of allied and 

 neutral powers, Mr. Lloyd George, the presi- 

 dent of the Board of Education, the president 

 of the Royal Society and the chancellors of the 

 universities of Cambridge, Glasgow and Lon- 

 don. The general committee, consisting of 

 the subscribers, is under the chairmanship of 

 Lord Rayleigh. Lord Glenconner and Pro- 

 fessor J. ]Sr. Collie share the office of honorary 

 treasurer, and Dr. Smiles is acting as honor- 

 ary secretary. 



An executive committee, formed ujider the 

 chairmanship of Sir Hugh Bell, has drawn up 

 an appeal, which is at present only privately 

 issued, but will shortly be circulated publicly. 

 The committee aims at obtaining a sum of 

 £100,000, and whilst the final form to be taken 

 by the memorial will be submitted to the sub- 

 scribers, and will necessarily depend on the 



amount obtained, the objects recommended 

 are: (1) The provision of Ramsay Research 

 Fellowships, tenable wherever the necessary 

 equipment may be found; and (2) the estab- 

 lishment of a Ramsay Memorial Laboratory 

 of Engineering Chemistry in connection with 

 University College, London, where Sir Wil- 

 liam Ramsay's most important discoveries 

 were made during his twenty-six years' tenure 

 of the chair of chemistry. The committee has 

 also in mind the inclusion of other forms of 

 memorial, such as the institution of a Ram- 

 say Medal for Chemical Research. 



The sum already obtained by the private ef- 

 forts of Sir William Ramsay's friends and 

 from their own generosity amounts to about 

 £13,500. This includes the donation of £5,000 

 from Messrs. Brunner, Mond, Ltd.; £1,000 

 each from the Rt. Hon. Lord Glenconner, Sir 

 Hugh Bell, Sir Ralph C. Forster, Sir Robert 

 Hadfield, Mr. Robert Mond and Mr. Hugh 

 Brunei IToble; and £500 each from the presi- 

 dent of the British Science Guild and Miss 

 Lilias Noble. 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 



The !N"ew York Academy of Sciences has 

 been compelled to postpone the celebration 

 which had been planned, but on the evening 

 of May 28 the following program was given in 

 honor of the one hundred years of scientific 

 activity of the academy: 



The relation of pure science to the national 

 crisis: Professor Michael Idvorsky Pupin, presi- 

 dent of the academy. 



The academy 's scientific survey of Porto Eico : 

 Dr. Nathaniel Lord Britton. 



Our first himdred years — a siuumary: Dr. John 

 Hendley Barnhart. 



Professor T. H. Morgan, of Columbia Uni- 

 versity, has been elected a foreign member of 

 the Linnean Society, London. 



Dr. Isaiah Bowman, director of the Amer- 

 ican Geographical Society, was in April 

 awarded the Bonaparte- Wyse gold medal of 

 the Geographical Society of Paris for his 

 explorations in and publications on South 

 America. 



