Mat 29, 1914] 



SCIENCE 



781 



the study of engineering education are now 

 being completed. The earlier educational work 

 of the foundation is continued in the report 

 by commendation of the present tendency of 

 college entrance requirements toward both 

 elevation and flexibility. The need for further 

 improvement is shovra. by the fact that only 

 55 per cent, of the students now in our col- 

 leges are high school graduates. The decrease 

 in the number of medical schools in the coun- 

 try from 162 in 1910 to 115 in 1913, and the 

 rapid improvement of the better schools are 

 commented upon with appreciation. A gen- 

 eral study of the problems of the state regula- 

 tion of higher education is illustrated by a 

 detailed account of the recent crisis in educa- 

 tional affairs in Iowa. 



The report further presents a study of the 

 financial status of college teachers as compared 

 with the situation presented in a similar study 

 published five years ago. The ordinary salary 

 of a full professor in the institutions asso- 

 ciated with the foundation is now $3,000. 

 During the last five years the salaries of in- 

 structors have risen by about $80; those of 

 junior professors show a gain of from $120 to 

 $225 ; those of full professors show an increase 

 from $125 to $350. 



The report concludes with a frank criticism 

 of contemporary college catalogues. It is ac- 

 companied by the annual report of the treas- 

 urer. Copies may be had by addressing the 

 Foundation at 576 Fifth Avenue, New York 

 City. 



THE PBELIMINABY ANNOUNCEMENT OF 



TSE SAN FRANCISCO MEETING OF 



TSE AMERICAN ASSOCIATION 



FOB THE ADVANCEMENT 



OF SCIENCE 



The American Association for the Advance- 

 ment of Science has decided to hold a general 

 meeting of the association in San Francisco 

 and vicinity on the occasion of the Panama- 

 Pacific International Exposition, in 1915, and 

 has appointed a Pacific Coast Committee of 

 thirty-two members to make the necessary 

 arrangements. This Committee has recom- 

 mended, and the American Association has 



approved, that the sessions of the meeting 

 shall begin on Monday, August 2, and termi- 

 nate on Saturday, August 7. It has been 

 decided that: 



(1) The general sessions of the meeting 

 shall be held in San Francisco. 



(2) The general evening lectures shall be 

 delivered in San Francisco. 



(3) The sessions for the presentation of ad- 

 dresses and papers in the separate divisions of 

 science shall be held chiefly at the University 

 of California, Berkeley. 



(4) Sessions for the presentation of ad- 

 dresses and papers in the separate divisions of 

 science shall be held on one day at Stanford 

 University. 



Subcommittees of the Pacific Coast Com- 

 mittee will in due time supply information to 

 the members of the American Association and 

 to the members of such other scientific soci- 

 eties as desire it: on transportation, by rail- 

 ways and by steamers, including the Panama 

 Canal route; on living accommodations in 

 San Francisco and vicinity, and at other 

 Pacific Coast points; on excursions; on the 

 leading features of the Panama-Pacific Inter- 

 national Exposition, and on other subjects of 

 interest. 



Holding in mind that the San Francisco 

 events of 1915 are in commemoration of the 

 union of the Atlantic and the Pacific, through 

 the medium of the finished Panama Canal, and 

 that the Pacific region is hereafter to be in 

 closer relation with the states and nations 

 lying east of the Cordilleras of North and 

 South America, and with the nations of 

 Europe, the Pacific Committee on Scientific 

 Program has adopted the following resolution : 



In view of the fact that the occurrence of scien- 

 tific meetings in San Francisco in 1915 is in a 

 manner a part of the celebration commemorating 

 the opening of the Pacific to the peoples border- 

 ing the Atlantic it seems fitting that the program 

 of meetings held in connection with this celebration 

 should relate, as far as possible, to problems of 

 world interest which pertain especially to the 

 Pacific area. 



The committee desires to add, by way of 

 comment, that this resolution is not intended 

 to discourage the presentation of worthy 



