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first carefully thought out, and then all the 

 methods being thoroughly and impartially 

 applied to one and the same district. 

 Experiment of this kind should of course 

 be made by various observers of different 

 trainings and preferences, and in different 

 localities. Precisely this sort of experi- 

 mental criticism was attempted during the 

 Italian excursion of 1908, but under condi- 

 tions, as already pointed out, that predis- 

 posed the jurors to a verdict in favor of a 

 particular method. It vrould be a good 

 thing for geographical progress if a larger 

 experiment of the same kind could be 

 made. I trust that our association may 

 some day actively engage in such an 

 enterprise. 



W. M. Davis 

 Cajibridge, Mass. 



TEE GRADVATE SCHOOL OF PSINCETON 

 UNIVERSITY 

 Mr. W. C. Procter has renewed his gift of 

 $500,000 for the Graduate College of Prince- 

 ton University on the same conditions on 

 which it was originally made, except that in 

 view of the bequest of Mr. Wyman for the 

 graduate school, which it is thought will 

 -amount to $3,000,000, the $500,000 to be col- 

 lected to secure Mr. Procter's gift is to be used 

 for the endowment of the preceptorial system 

 in the college. After the meeting of the trus- 

 tees on June 9, President Wilson gave out 

 the following statement: 



By the will of the late Isaac C. Wyman, of the 

 class of 1S4S, a great bequest has been left to the 

 university in terms which must be acceptable to 

 every friend of Princeton and of the higher learn- 

 ing. Its amount is expected to be sufficient to 

 enable us to form a great graduate faculty and 

 equip graduate teaching upon as liberal a scale 

 as we should desire. 



William Cooper Procter, of the class of 1883, 

 has, with admirable generosity, offered $500,000 

 to the university for the equipment and endow- 

 ment of the Graduate College upon terms which 

 will, I feel confident, commend themselves to 

 every member of the board. 



Mrs. Kussell Sage has completed our great 



obligation to her by offering to extend the beauti- 

 ful building she recently presented to the univer- 

 sity and to add to it the great tower which is 

 likely to be the chief architectural ornament of 

 the university. 



Mr. Procter makes it a condition of his gift 

 that the buildings of the Graduate College shall 

 be placed upon the golf links. Strongly as my 

 own judgment would dictate a different choice of 

 site, the expectations of immediate large develop- 

 ment created by Mr. Wyman's bequest so alter 

 the relative importance of the question of the 

 position of the graduate college of residence that 

 I feel it to be my duty no longer to oppose in 

 tnat matter what I now know to be the judgment 

 of a majority of colleagues in the board. 



The recent discussion of the many questions 

 connected with the development and administra- 

 tion of the graduate school has fortunately called 

 forth from all parties expressions of opinion 

 which show practical unanimity of judgment and 

 purpose upon the questions upon which agreement 

 was most important; inasmuch as it has devel- 

 oped common consent that the life of the Graduate 

 College should be organized upon the simplest 

 and most natural lines possible, and that the 

 college should be of common use and benefit to all 

 members of the graduate school. 



I, therefore, very heartily congratulate the 

 board upon a combination of circumstances which 

 gives so bright a promise of a successful and 

 harmonious development of the university along 

 lines which mav command our common enthusiasm. 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 



Sm DAvro Gill, K.C.B., P.E.S., has been 

 appointed a knight of the Prussian Order of 

 Merit. 



Dr. Wilhelm Eoux, professor of anatomy 

 at Halle and eminent for his contributions to 

 embryology, celebrated his sixtieth birthday 

 on June 9, when a Festschrift in two volumes 

 was presented to him. 



Dr. E. a. Schaefer, professor of physi- 

 ology in the University of Edinburgh, has re- 

 ceived an honorary doctorate of medicine at 

 the University of Berne, after lecturing at the 

 University on " The Functions of the Pitui- 

 tary Body." 



The council of the Boyal Society of Arts 

 has elected Mr. Theodore Eoosevelt a life 

 member of the society under the terms of the- 



