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autonomy as is consistent with the welfare of 

 the university as a whole. It should elect its 

 minor officers and nominate its professors. 

 The nominations for professorships should be 

 subject to the approval of a board of advisers 

 constituted for each department, consisting, 

 say, of two members of the department, two 

 experts in the subject outside the university 

 and two professors from related departments. 

 The final election should be by a university 

 senate, subject to the veto of the trustees. 

 The same salaries should be paid for the same 

 office and the same amount of work. The 

 election should be for life, except in the case 

 of impeachment after trial. The division 

 should have financial as well as educational 

 autonomy. Its income should be held as a 

 trust fund and it should be encouraged to 

 increase this fund. 



5. The departments or divisions should elect 

 representatives for such committees as are 

 needed when they have common interests, 

 and to a senate which should legislate 

 for the university as a whole and be a body 

 coordinate with the trustees. It should have 

 an executive committee which would meet 

 with a similar committee of the trustees. 

 There should also on special occasions be 

 plenums of divisions having interests in com- 

 mon and plenums of all the professors or offi- 

 cers of the university. There should be as 

 much flexibility and as complete anarchy 

 throughout the university as is consistent 

 with unity and order. 



J. McKebn Cattell. 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS. 



Father J. G. Hagen, S.J., professor of 

 astronomy in Georgetown University, and di- 

 rector of the observatory, has been offered the 

 directorship of the Vatican Observatory. 



Mr. Arthur Stanley Eddington, B.A., 

 B.Se. (Manchester), of Trinity College, Cam- 

 bridge, senior wrangler in 1904, has been 

 appointed chief assistant in the Eoyal Ob- 

 servatory, Greenwich. 



Dr. Paul G. Woolley, director of the serum 

 laboratory of the Bureau of Science in the 

 Philippines, has accepted under the govern- 



ment of Siam the directorship of the patho- 

 logical laboratory, which it is proposed to 

 start as soon as Dr. Woolley can reach 

 Bangkok. 



Professor James Mills Peirce, Perkins 

 professor of mathematics and astronomy at 

 Harvard University, has presented his resigna- 

 tion to take effect a year hence. Professor 

 Peirce was appointed tutor in mathematics at 

 Harvard in 1854. 



Professor C. W. Pritghett has retired at 

 the age of eighty-three, after thirty years' ser- 

 vice, from the directorship of the Morrison 

 Observatory at Glasgow, Missouri. He is suc- 

 ceeded by Mr. H. E. Morgan, formerly of the 

 U. S. Naval Observatory. 



Dr. William Osler, regius professor of 

 medicine at Oxford University, has been 

 elected a member of the Athenseum Club, un- 

 der the provisions which empower the annual 

 election of nine persons ' of distinguished 

 eminence in science, literature, the arts, or 

 for public services.' 



Professor Percy F. Prankland was elected 

 president of the Institute of Chemistry of 

 Great Britain and Ireland at the twenty-eighth 

 annual meeting held on March 1. Professor 

 Prankland's father. Sir Edward Erankland, 

 was the first president of the institute. 



Dr. Hugo de Vries, professor of botany at 

 Amsterdam, will present a paper on ' Elemen- 

 tary Species in Agriculture,' at the meeting 

 of the American Philosophical Society, on 

 April 18. 



Dr. E. D. Fisher has been appointed chair- 

 man of the committee on the centennial cele- 

 bration of the Medical Society of the County 

 of New York, which will be held at the Hotel 

 Astor on April 4. 



Mr. Dudley Moulton, A.B. (Stanford, '04), 

 has been appointed a field agent of the Divi- 

 sion of Entomology; U. S. Department of 

 Agriculture. 



Dr. W. C. Fahabee, instructor in anthro- 

 pology at Harvard University, took a party 

 of Harvard students to Iceland during the 

 summer. Mr. V. Stefansson, Hemenway fel- 

 low in anthropology, and Mr. J. W. Hastings 



