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the whole number will be still further in- 

 creased in later years when this deficiency has 

 been repaired. The total number for whom 

 permanent provision is made is about 190, 

 and no doubt this maximum will be reached 

 before many years have elapsed. 



In the election of scholars the only qualify- 

 ing test in scholarship fixed by the trustees is 

 the Oxford Eesponsions standard. An excep- 

 tion to this rule has hitherto been made in 

 the case of South Africa and one of two 

 Australian colonies; but after this year the 

 test will be everywhere applied, except in Ger- 

 many, where the selection of scholars was as- 

 signed by Mr. Rhodes to the Emperor himself. 

 In all other cases a local committee of selec- 

 tion, usually composed of educational experts 

 and sometimes of a school or university fac- 

 ulty, completes the election from among the 

 candidates who have passed the preliminary 

 test; and these committees are directed to 

 select on the basis suggested by Mr. Ehodes. 

 They are free to apply for purposes of com- 

 parison any further educational or other test 

 they think desirable beyond that exacted by 

 the trustees. 



For 1904 five states or territories of the 

 American Union failed to qualify a candidate 

 on the Eesponsions standard, while no fewer 

 than ten failed in 1905. The states thus 

 failing in 1905 were Alabama, Arizona, 

 Arkansas, Montana, Nevada, North Dakota, 

 Oregon, South Dakota, Utah and Wyoming, 

 mostly, it will be observed, the newer western 

 states. Among the colonies Ehodesia has had 

 some difficulty in filling up its annual quota 

 of three scholars, and one scholarship is 

 vacant this year. The organization of sec- 

 ondary schools has barely begun there, and in 

 the meantime Ehodesian boys studying in 

 England, but whose parents are spending their 

 lives in the colony, have been considered 

 eligible. This condition will be modified with 

 the advance of Ehodesian education. The 

 only other colonial community which has yet 

 failed to send a scholar is the northwestern 

 territory of Canada, which furnished a suc- 

 cessful candidate in 1904, but none who quali- 

 fied in 1905. Fifteen American scholarships 

 and two colonial scholarships are therefore 



vacant at the present time through lack of 

 duly-qualified scholars. When scholarships 

 have once lapsed through failure of this kind 

 they are not filled up in the succeeding year, 

 but only in the regular cycle of appointment, 

 as any other method would be unfair to 

 prospective candidates for any given year. 



THE RE BE ARCH LABORATORY OF PHYSICAL 



CHEMISTRY OF THE MASSACHUSETTS 



INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY. 



Several changes have taken place in the 

 stafi of the Eesearch Laboratory of Physical 

 Chemistry of the Massachusetts Institute of 

 Technology. Professor W. D. Coolidge has 

 accepted a position in the Technical Eesearch 

 Laboratory of the General Electric Company 

 at Schenectady, where he will be closely asso- 

 ciated with Dr. W. E. Whitney. To Professor 

 Coolidge has been due in large measure the 

 development of one of the most important 

 lines of work in progress in the research labo- 

 ratory of the institute — the investigation of 

 the conductivity of aqueous solutions at high 

 temperatures. This research will be continued 

 not only by several investigators at the insti- 

 tute, but also by Professor Coolidge at Sche- 

 nectady. Mr. Yogoro Kato, who has also been 

 engaged on the conductivity investigation for 

 two years, has accepted a position in the Tech- 

 nical High School of Tokio, where he will 

 have charge of the work in electrochemistry. 

 Dr. Wilhelm Bottger returns as Privatdocent 

 to the University of Leipzig, at which he will 

 conduct one of the laboratory courses in an- 

 alytical chemistry. In place of these retiring 

 members, the following new appointments to 

 the research staff have been made: William 

 C. Bray, B.A., Toronto '02, Ph.D., Leipzig '05 ; 

 Guy W. Eastman, S.B., M.LT. '04; Gilbert 

 N. Lewis, Ph.D., Harvard; Edward W. 

 Washburn, S.B., M.I.T., '05. Mr. Eoy D. 

 Mailey has been promoted to the position 

 of research associate. Seven candidates for 

 the degree of doctor of philosophy are now 

 pursuing work in the laboratory. By them 

 and by the regular research workers, the in- 

 vestigations mentioned a year ago in Science 

 are all being continued, and one new line of 

 work has been entered upon, namely, a study 



