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6. Have you any suggestions to make from 

 your college point of view likely to be helpful to 

 the trustees in their endeavor to make the be- 

 quest of Mr. Rhodes most efifective? 



The answers to the questions will be sub- 

 mitted to the trustees for their consideration. 

 The first year the bequest comes into opera- 

 tion there will be elected probably between 

 70 and 75 scholars, the same number for the 

 second year, and for the third year about 30, 

 the numbers continuing thei'eafter from year 

 to year in about the same proportion. The 

 bulk of the replies to the questions have yet 

 to be received, as the queries have not at pres- 

 ent been formally submitted to the college 

 meetings, but the reception which Mr. Parkin 

 has met with at the hands of the heads of col- 

 leges has been most gratifying. 



In the course of a statement made yesterday 

 Mr. Parkin said : " What has impressed me 

 greatly since I have been in Oxford is the ex- 

 ceedingly hearty and interested way in which 

 all the colleges have discussed the best plan of 

 working the Rhodes scholars into the univer- 

 sity system. A universal feeling prevails that 

 the conception of Rhodes was a splendid one, 

 has in it more possibilities in the future, and 

 is likely to make a profound impression on 

 the English-speaking world. It is also very 

 generally felt, I think, that any failure to 

 make a complete success of this great thought 

 of Mr. Rhodes would be a check to all giving 

 on a grand scale for a long time to come. The 

 heads of colleges and fellows I have found 

 everywhere ready to cooperate with the Rhodes 

 trustees in making this bequest most effective. 

 We are only gradually getting answers to the 

 questions which have been propounded to the 

 various colleges, but all the replies that have 

 come in are highly favorable. According to 

 their size, each of the colleges seems prepared 

 to take from two to five of the Rhodes scholars 

 every year. This would give to the smaller 

 colleges six in all for the three years' scholar- 

 ship, and to the larger colleges about fifteen, 

 when the plan is in full operation. As the 

 holders of these scholarships will be very care- 

 fully selected from each of the colonies and 

 from each state of the American Union, I have 

 every reason to think that a high average of 



man will be obtained — almost certainly a 

 serious, earnest man, but interested in college 

 athletics and all the best sides of college life, 

 in accordance with the ideas that Mr. Rhodes 

 had about the selection of such candidates. 

 The interest taken in the matter in all parts 

 of the world is illustrated by the flood of corre- 

 spondence which has been poured in upon 

 me as representing the trustees, upon the vice- 

 chancellor and everybody who could be sup- 

 posed to have any connection with the scheme." 



SCIENTIFIC N0TE8 AND NEW8. 



President Roosevelt has consented to act 

 as honorary president of the local committee 

 for the Washington meeting of the American 

 Association for the Advancement of Science. 



The trustees of the Carnegie Institution 

 held their first annual meeting in Washington 

 on November 25. The positive action taken 

 consisted in the appropriation of $200,000 for 

 grants for research, $40,000 for publication, 

 $50,000 for administrative expenses, and $100,- 

 000 to be placed in a reserve fund. All spe- 

 cific requests for aid were referred back to the 

 executive committee for action. The Year 

 Book, now in course of preparation, will con- 

 tain the reports of the various committees and 

 other material that will be of general interest. 



Emperor William in the farewell audience 

 of Ambassador White presented him with the 

 Gold Medal of the empire for science and art, 

 which is given once a year to a person, either 

 a German or a foreigner, who, in the opinion 

 of the government, is best entitled to it. 



Lord Reay, chairman of the London school 

 board since 1897, and president of the Royal 

 Asiatic Society and of University College, 

 London, has been elected first president of the 

 British Academy. 



Mr. Francis Galton has been elected an 

 honorary fellow of Trinity College, Cam- 

 bridge. 



Dr. M. Treub, director of the Royal Bo- 

 tanic Gardens at Buitenzorg, Java, is at 

 present in the United States. 



Dr. Juan Guiteras and Dr. Carlos Finley 

 will represent Cuba at the sanitary congress 

 to be held in Washington in December. 



