640 
of age, and application must be made on a 
special form to the secretary of the institute be 
fore the end of April in every year. The 
scholarships will be tenable for one year, but 
the council will be at liberty to renew them 
for a further period if thought desirable in- 
stead of proceeding to new elections. The ob- 
ject of this scheme of scholarships is not to 
facilitate ordinary collegiate studies, but to 
enable students who have passed through a 
college curriculum, or have been trained 
in industrial establishments, to conduct re- 
searches in the metallurgy of iron and steel 
and allied subjects, with the view of aiding its 
advance or its application to industry. It is 
suggested that the National Physical Labora- 
tory—on the governing body of which the Iron 
and Steel Institute is represented—would for 
many reasons be a very suitable establishment 
in which such a research could be carried out. 
There is, however, no restriction as to the 
place of research that may be selected, whether 
university, technical school, or works, the 
only absolute condition being that it shall be 
properly equipped for the prosecution of metal- 
lurgical investigations. The results of the re- 
searchs are to be communicated to the Iron and 
Steel Institute in the form of a paper to be sub- 
mitted to the annual general meeting of mem- 
bers. If the paper appears to the council to be 
sufficiently meritorious the author will be 
awarded the Andrew Carnegie gold medal. 
The awarding of the medal in any year, how- 
ever, will not be obligatory, but will depend 
upon a paper of sufficient merit being com- 
municated. 
IN reply to those who have signed a petition 
objecting to the opening of the Edinburgh Mu- 
seum of Science and Art on Sunday afternoons, 
Lord Balfour has written: ‘‘In point of princi- 
ple Iam unable to agree that a visit to a mu- 
seum is a contravention of any divine law. If 
a citizen of Edinburgh may not go to a museum, 
by what right does any one of us enjoy a walk 
in our own or somebody else’s garden? In de- 
ciding the practical question, I think we must 
keep in view the extent of the innocent gratifi- 
cation as well as improvement offered to those 
whose opportunities for both are otherwise 
limited. I believe that in these respects the 
SCIENCE. 
[N.S. Vou. XIII. No. 329. 
advantages will be very great as compared with 
the amount of labor involved. Having regard 
to this, and bearing in mind the resolution of 
the House of Commons, I had but little diffi- 
culty in coming to the conclusion that it was 
my duty to decide the question of Sunday open- 
ing in the case of the Edinburgh Museum in 
the way I have done. I did not arrive at that 
conclusion without careful and anxious consid- 
eration, and I cannot hold out any hope that it 
will be reconsidered unless and until experience 
of its working in Edinburgh supplies proof that 
slight use is made of the opportunity offered or 
that its consequences are in some way detri- 
mental to the public interests.’’ 
UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS. 
By the will of the late Mrs. Josephine L. 
Newcomb, Tulane University will receive a 
large sum, said to be $2,000,000, for the Sophie 
Newcomb College for Women. 
Mrs. P. D. ARMouR and her son Mv. J. 
Ogden Armour have given $1,000,000 to the 
Armour Institute, Chicago. This endowment 
will be used, it is said, to extend the work of 
the Institute in the direction of electrical en- 
gineering and chemistry. 
THE daily papers report that the endowment 
fund of $1,000,000 for the Johns Hopkins Uni- 
versity has been practically collected and that 
the donors will be announced on May Ist. It 
is also said that President Gilman’s successor 
will be announced at that time. 
Mr. JoHN B. GILFELLAN, of Minneapolis, 
has given the University $50,000 for the assist- 
ance of poor students. 
CREIGHTON UNIVERSITY at Omaha, Nebr., 
has received $75,000 from Mr. John A. Creigh- 
ton for a new building. j 
THE Board of Regents of the University of 
Minnesota has approved the recommendation 
of the faculties abolishing the degrees of bachelor 
of philosophy and bachelor of science, the de- 
gree of bachelor of arts being hereafter given 
for all liberal studies. 
Miss LAuRA D. Grit will be installed as 
Dean of Barnard College on May Ist. <A gift 
of $5,000 to the College from Mr. Jefferson 
Seligman has been announced. 
