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SCIENCE. 



[N. S. Vol. XXIII. No. 587. 



The trustees of the Carnegie Foundation 

 will meet on Monday, April 9, at the offices of 

 the foundation in New York City. At that 

 time it is expected that a definite plan for the 

 disposition of the income will be adopted. The 

 wide scope of the institution is outlined in the 

 act of incorporation passed by congress and 

 approved by the president, March 10. The 

 act confers large powers, and in it the purpose 

 of the founder in the establishment of the 

 fund is clearly stated to be the establishment 

 of a system of retiring pensions in the higher 

 institutions of learning of the English speak- 

 ing countries of North America, and in gen- 

 eral the advancement of the profession of the 

 teacher and the cause of higher education. 

 The institution is named in the new act of 

 incorporation the ' Carnegie Foundation for 

 the Advancement of Teaching.' 



A NEW building for the department of elec- 

 trical engineering of the Worcester Poly- 

 technic Institute is to be erected immediately, 

 . and it is hoped that this building will be avail- 

 .able for the use of the students early in the 

 next college year. The building vsdll contain 

 a lecture room for experimental demonstra- 

 tion lectures and capable of seating about 300 

 persons; a standards laboratory; a department 

 reading-room and library with a capacity for 

 2,000 volumes; an electrical engineering de- 

 sign room; a photometric laboratory; a tele- 

 phone laboratory; a general laboratory to eon- 

 tain most of the present equipment of the 

 department ; a laboratory for the study of high 

 potentials phenomena, and an electric railway 

 engineering laboratory. 



A DESPATCH to the Boston Transcript states 

 that impetus has been given to the movement 

 for the extension of technical education in 

 Nova Scotia at a meeting of the Mining So- 

 ciety at Halifax, on March 22. An address 

 was made by Professor E. H. Eichards, of the 

 Massachusetts Institute of Technology, who 

 told of the great progress the United States 

 has made in technical education, and urged as 

 good politics as well as good patriotism the 

 use of taxpayers' money to start and carry on 

 the work of training young men ■ for higher 

 positions in connection with industrial life. 



Premier Murray announced that the govern- 

 ment was dealing with this phase of education 

 and its policy would be on the lines of the 

 Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The 

 new advisory board of education, for the ap- 

 pointment of which legislation is now before 

 parliament, vpill deal with the problem. 



Vice-consul Schlemmer, of Mannheim, 

 tells of the establishment of an Academic 

 Information Bureau in Germany for the bene- 

 fit of foreign students and visitors. It is 

 located at the Berlin University, and its 

 sphere embraces all public institutions of the 

 empire as well as of other countries. In- 

 formation wiU be furnished as to all the par- 

 ticulars necessary to be observed in entering a 

 university or attending lectures or in regard 

 to schools, laboratories, museums, libraries, 

 hospitals, art galleries, etc. Dr. W. Paszkow- 

 ski is at the head of the institution, and all 

 services are furnished without charge. 



We are requested to state that a number of 

 fellowships will be open next year in the de- 

 partment of chemistry at Ohio State Univer- 

 sity, Columbus, Ohio. Application blanks 

 may be obtained by addressing the professor 

 of chemistry. 



At Yale University, Dr. Bertram B. Bolt- 

 wood and Dr. L. P. Wheeler have been ap- 

 pointed assistant professors of physics and 

 Dr. E. H. Cameron has been appointed in- 

 structor in psychology. Mr. Roy R. Marston 

 has resigned an assistant professorship of 

 forestry. 



Miss Jean Bboadhurst, instructor in biol- 

 ogy at the New Jersey State Normal School, 

 has been appointed instructor in biology and 

 nature-study at Teachers College, Columbia 

 University. With the exception of one course 

 transferred to Barnard College, Miss Broad- 

 hurst will have charge of the plant work 

 formerly conducted by Professor F. E. Lloyd. 



Dr. S. T. Tamura, mathematician in the 

 department of terrestrial magnetism of the 

 Carnegie Institution, has been offered a pro- 

 fessorship of dynamics and ship's magnetism 

 in the Naval Staff College, Tokyo, which is 

 the graduate school for Japanese naval officers. 



