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(a) For an active pay of twelve hundred dol- 

 lars or less, a retiring allowance of eight hundred 

 dollars, provided that no retiring allowance shall 

 exceed eighty per cent, of the active pay. 



( 6 ) For an active pay greater than twelve hun- 

 dred dollars, the retiring allowance shall equal 

 eight hundred dollars, increased by forty dollars 

 for each one hundred dollars in excess of twelve 

 hundred dollars. 



(c) For each additional year of service above 

 twenty-five for a professor, or above thirty for an 

 instructor, the retiring allowance shall be in- 

 creased by one per cent, of the active pay. 



(d) No retiring allowance shall exceed four 

 thousand dollars. 



Computed by the formula: i? = A/100(6 + 15) 

 + 320, where R = retiring allowance, A = active 

 pay and 6 = number of years of service. 



EUIE in 

 A widow who has been for ten years the wife 

 of a teacher, who at the time of his death was 

 in receipt of a retiring allowance, or who at the 

 time of his death was eligible to a retiring allow- 

 ance, or who had had twenty-five years of service 

 as a professor or thirty years of service as an in- 

 structor and professor, shall receive as a pension 

 one half of the retiring allowance to which her 

 husband was entitled under rule I. or would have 

 been entitled under rule II. in ease of disability. 



eum; IV 

 In the preceding rules, years of leave of absence 

 are to be counted as years of service, but not 

 exceeding one year in seven. Librarians, regis- 

 trars, recorders and administrative officers of long 

 tenure whose salaries may be classed with those 

 of professors and assistant professors, are con- 

 sidered eligible to the benefits of a retiring allow- 

 ance. 



ETTIE V 



Teachers in the professional departments of 

 universities whose principal work is outside the 

 profession of teaching are not included. 



EULE VI 



The benefits of the foundation shall not be 

 available to those whose active service ceased be- 

 fore April 16, 1905, the date of Mr. Carnegie's 

 original letter to the trustees. 



EULE vn 

 In counting years of service toward a retiring 

 allowance it is not necessary that the entire 

 service shall have been given in institutions upon 



the accepted list of the foundation, but only years 

 of service in an institution of higher education 

 will be accepted as an equivalent. 



EDLE vin 

 In no case shall any allowance be paid to a 

 teacher who continues to give the whole or a part 

 of his time to the work of teaching as a member 

 of the instructing staff of any institution. 



EULE rx 

 The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement 

 of Teaching retains the power to alter these rules 

 in such manner as experience may indicate as 

 desirable for the benefit of the whole body of 

 teachers. 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 



Eeaders of Science will have learned with 

 regret of the circumstances leading to the re- 

 tirement of Mr. Gifford Pinchot from the 

 direction of the Forest Service. 



Dr. C. F. Chandler, since 1864 professor of 

 chemistry in Columbia University, will re- 

 tire from active service at the close of the 

 present academic year. The trustees have 

 passed a resolution expressing their high ap- 

 preciation of his services to the university. 



Professor Theodore W. Eichards, of Har- 

 vard University, has been reappointed research 

 associate of the Carnegie Institution of Wash- 

 ington, having received a new grant of $2,500 

 for the continuation of his researches on 

 atomic weights and other physico-chemical 

 constants. 



Professor G. P. Baxter has also been re- 

 appointed a research associate of the institu- 

 tion and a grant of $1,000 has been made to 

 him for the continuation of investigations 

 upon atomic weights. 



Professor E. J. Wilczynski, of the Univer- 

 sity of Illinois, has been awarded a prize of 

 eight hundred franks by the Eoyal Academy 

 of Science, Letters and Fine Arts of Belgium, 

 for his memoir on " The General Theory of 

 Congruences." This prize was announced 

 some time ago by the academy for the most 

 noteworthy development of some phase of the 

 application of differential geometry to ruled 

 space. 



