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in 1889. From 1889-90 lie was librarian of 

 the Canadian Institute at Toronto. In 1890 

 lie was appointed to a fellowship in Clark Uni- 

 versity, where he took the Ph.D. degree in 

 1892. Shortly after he was appointed lecturer 

 in anthropology and later promoted to a full 

 professorship. 



Professor Chamberlain was an expert bibli- 

 ographer and editor. For many years he con- 

 tributed systematic bibliographical notes to 

 the American Anthropologist^ which have been 

 of great value to American students, especially 

 since his great linguistic knowledge enabled 

 him to give digests of all important foreign 

 publications. It is in this respect that his loss 

 will be most keenly felt. As an editor he was 

 for many years in charge of the Journal of 

 American Folh-Lore and actively associated 

 with President 6. Stanley HaU in the editor- 

 ship of the Journal of Religious Psychology. 

 He was also an associate editor of the Ameri- 

 can Anthropologist and of the American Anti- 

 quarian. He was an important contributor to 

 the Encyclopedia Britannica and many other 

 reference books. As a writer, he possessed 

 more than average skill, having contributed 

 many charming articles to the Atlantic 

 Monthly and other magazines. 



His special line of research was linguistics. 

 In 1891 he made a special study of the 

 Kootenay Indian language of British Colum- 

 bia under the auspices of the British Associa- 

 tion and collected considerable data on their 

 culture ; unfortunately, the greater part of this 

 is still unpublished. In addition to the study 

 of certain Algonkin linguistic problems, Pro- 

 fessor Chamberlain worked over the linguistics 

 of South America and prepared a map of the 

 continent similar to the famous Powell map 

 of North America. This work was recently 

 published and, though still to occupy the at- 

 tention of the author, had he lived, is probably 

 about as complete as the data available make 

 possible. Though necessarily tentative, it 

 marks a distinct advance in South American 

 anthropology. 



His best known works are the " Child and 

 Childhood in Folkthought " (1896) and " The 

 Child: A Study in the Evolution of Man" 

 (1900), subjects which were quite suggestively 



developed in his lectures to students of 

 psychology and education. C. W. 



THE GENERAL EDUCATION BOABD 

 The spring meeting of the General Educa- 

 tion Board — the foundation endowed by Mr. 

 John D. Eockefeller — was held on May 29. In 

 attendance were Chas. W. Eliot, Albert Shaw, 

 H. B. Frissell, Anson Phelps Stokes, John D. 

 Eockefeller, Jr., F. T. Gates, E. L. Marston, 

 Jerome D. Greene, Starr J. Murphy, Wallace 

 Buttrick and Abraham Flesner. Ambassador 

 Page, President Judson and Dr. Wickliffe 

 Rose were absent abroad. The membership of 

 the board was increased by the election of 

 President George E. Vincent, of the Univer- 

 sity of Minnesota. 



At the close of the meeting announcement 

 was made that appropriations aggregating 

 $1,400,000 had been made. The most impor- 

 tant of these was a gift of $500,000 to the 

 medical school of Yale University. As had 

 been previously announced, the General Edu- 

 cation Board has decided to provide funds 

 necessary to enable properly located and organ- 

 ized medical schools to command the entire 

 time and energy of their teachers in the main 

 departments of medicine and surgery. For 

 this purpose a million and a half dollars has 

 already been appropriated for the Johns Hop- 

 kins School, and $750,000 for Washington 

 University. This gift of $500,000 to the Tale 

 Medical School was made on condition that 

 the school procure complete teaching and medi- 

 cal control of the New Haven Hospital, and 

 that the teachers in the main clinical branches 

 be placed on the full-time or university basis. 

 In conformity with its previous policy of 

 making gifts to increase the endowment and 

 extending the usefulness of promising and 

 serviceable institutions in various parts of 

 the country, the following appropriations were 

 made: 



Stevens Institute of Technology $250,000. 



Elmira College 100,000. 



Hendrix College 100,000. 



Washington and Lee University 125,000. 



Wells College 100,000. 



Wofford College 33,000. 



