July 13, 1906.] 



SCIENCE. 



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passed by the recent session of congress car- 

 ries an appropriation of $9,932,940. Of this 

 amount the sums appropriated for what raay 

 be termed worlv in applied science are dis- 

 tributed as follows: 



The Bureau of Animal Industry receives 

 $4,029,460, but of this amount $3,000,000 are 

 to be devoted to the meat inspection, the dis- 

 cussion of which has occupied so much of the 

 time of congress and of the public press dur- 

 ing the past few weeks; Weather Bureau, 

 $1,439,240; Bureau of Plant Industry, $1,024,- 

 T40; Forest Service, $1,017,500; Agricultural 

 Experiment Stations, including the Depart- 

 ment Office of Experiment Stations, $974,860; 

 Bureau of Entomology, $262,100; Division of 

 Publications, $248,520; Bureau of Soils, $221,- 

 460; Bureau of Statistics, $210,560; Bureau 

 of Chemistry, $174,180; Office of Public 

 Eoads, $70,000; Bureau of Biological Survey, 

 $52,000; Library, $25,880. 



The growth of this great goverrmient de- 

 partment has been marvelous during the past 

 decade, and the value of its administration to 

 the country at large seems, by results, to have 

 justified this increase in its appropriations. 



CARNEGIE FOUNDATION FOB THE AD- 

 VANCEMENT OF TEACHING. 



The following list of forty-six institutions 

 is announced by the executive committee of 

 the Carnegie Foundation for the Advance- 

 ment of Teaching as a first provisional list of 

 colleges and universities admitted to the bene- 

 fits of the Carnegie Foundation for the Ad- 

 vancement of Teaching. 



To professors in these institutions the privi- 

 leges of the retiring allowances are extended, 

 under the rules of the foundation, as a regular 

 part of the academic compensation and 

 through their own institutions. That is to 

 say, the professors in these institutions receive 

 the allowances which their services earn, im- 

 mediately upon the request of their institu- 

 tion, as a matter of right. 



From this list are omitted all institutions 

 having formal denominational connections, or 

 which require their trustees or officers to be- 

 long to a specified denomination. A number 

 of these institutions may in time make clear 



to the trustees their right to a place in the list. 



Similarly are omitted all institutions con- 

 trolled and supported by a state, province or 

 municipality. The question of the admission 

 of such institutions to the benefits of the Car- 

 negie Foundation will be decided at a meet- 

 ing of the trustees in Novepaber, at which time 

 the representatives of state institutions will 

 have a full opportunity to present any state- 

 ment they may desire. 



All institutions are omitted from this list 

 which fall below the academic standard of a 

 college which the trustees have adopted. Many 

 of these will in time be able to claim places in 

 the list of accepted institutions by raising 

 their standards of entrance or of work. To 

 all three of these classes of institutions there 

 can be no hardship in such delay as may be 

 necessary to enable the trustees to deal thor- 

 oughly and fairly with the questions of edu- 

 cational standard and of denominational and 

 state control. 



It is not to be understood that the institu- 

 tions named below are the only ones in which 

 teachers will be granted retiring allowances 

 even at the present time, but to professors in 

 institutions not on the accepted list retiring 

 allowances thus voted will be individual grants 

 in recognition of unusual or distinguished 

 service as a teacher. The trustees have sought 

 to recognize in a generous way individual 

 scholars and the list of those to whom retiring 

 allowances have already been voted includes a 

 number of the most eminent names among 

 American teachers. 



The Carnegie Foundation does not give out 

 an official list of those to whom retiring allow- 

 ances have been granted, but among those 

 whose names have been published in the daily 

 papers are the following: Henry Pickering 

 Bowditch, professor of physiology at Harvard 

 University; George Trumbull Ladd, professor 

 of philosophy at Yale University; Francis A. 

 March, professor of English and comparative 

 philology at Lafayette College; Edward W. 

 Morley, professor of chemistry at Western 

 Reserve University; John Krom Pees, pro- 

 fessor of astronomy at Columbia University; 

 Charles Augustus Young, professor of astron- 

 omy at Princeton University. 



