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kind everywhere, in whose interests it has been 

 given and for whose use it is dedicated. 



The administration of this fund entails upon 

 the General Education Board the most far-reaeh- 

 ing responsibilities ever placed upon any educa- 

 tional organization in the world. As members of 

 the board, we accept this responsibility, conscious 

 alike of its difficulties and its opportunities. 



We will use our best wisdom to transmute your 

 gift into intellect and moral power, accounting it 

 a supreme privilege to dedicate whatever strength 

 we have to its just use in the service of men. 



It is said that Mr. Eockefeller's gifts to 

 education now amount to about $80,000,000. 



The General Education Board has so far 

 made appropriations, amounting to more than 

 $1,000,000, to eighteen colleges on condition 

 that three times the amount appropriated 

 should be obtained by the institutions from 

 other sources. At the meeting of the board, 

 on February 7, the following appropriations'; 

 as we understand on the same conditions, 

 were made: Beloit College, Beloit, Wis., $50,- 

 000; Morningside College, Sioux City, Iowa, 

 $50,000; Lafayette College, Easton, Pa., $50,- 

 000; Wabash College, Crawfordsville, Ind., 

 $125,000, and the University of Wooster, 

 Wooster, O., $125,000. 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 

 Professor Ernest W. Brown, who this year 

 goes from Haverford College to Tale Univer- 

 sity, has been awarded the J. C. Adams prize 

 of Cambridge University, for his work on the 

 motion of the moon. 



Professor Wilhelm von Bezold, professor 

 of physics and meteorology at Berlin, and 

 Professor Theodor Boveri, professor of zool- 

 ogy and comparative anatomy at Wiirzburg, 

 have been elected corresponding members of 

 the St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences. 



Professor W. M. Davis, of Harvard Uni- 

 versity, has been elected foreign correspondent 

 of the Geological Society of London. 



In celebration of the twenty-fifth anniver- 

 sary of the coming to Lehigh University of 

 Professor Joseph F. Klein a reception was 

 given him in South Bethlehem on the evening 

 of January 22. 



At the annual general meeting of the Royal 

 Meteorological Society, Mr. Richard Bentley, 

 the president, on behalf of the members of the 

 council, presented an illuminated address to 

 Mr. William Marriott, in recognition of his 

 services as lecturer for the society. 



The following committee has been appointed 

 by the president of the Washington Academy 

 of Sciences to take charge of the arrangements 

 for the entertainment of the International 

 Zoological Congress during its visit to Wash- 

 ington after the adjournment of the Boston 

 meeting in August, 1907: L. 0. Howard, 

 chairman, Frank Baker, W. H. Dall, H. G. 

 Dyar, B. W. Evermann, Theodore N. Gill, 

 H. W. Henshaw, C. L. Marlatt, A. D. Melvin, 

 C. Hart Merriam, T. S. Palmer, B. H. Han- 

 son, Richard Rathbun, Robert Ridgway, H. 

 M. Smith, Leonhard Stejneger, C. W. Stiles, 

 F. W. True, T. Wayland Vaughan, C. D. 

 Walcott. 



Secretary Taft will, it is said, appoint a 

 committee, consisting of Charles F. McKim, 

 the architect; Frederick L. Olmstead, Jr., of 

 Boston, landscape gardener, and Frank D. 

 Millett, the artist, to go to Niagara and gather 

 material for a report looking toward harmon- 

 izing the commercial buildings there, particu- 

 larly the power plants, with the natural 

 scenery. 



Professor J. C. Arthur and Mr. F. D. 

 Kern, both of Purdue University, Lafayette, 

 Indiana, continued their researches on plant 

 rusts in the New York Botanical Garden her- 

 barium during the month of January. Dr. 

 M. T. Cook has been awarded a research 

 scholarship at the garden for three months, 

 beginning on January 1. 



A cablegram to the daily papers from Cal- 

 cutta states that news from Dr. Sven Hedin, 

 the Swedish traveler, who last year started 

 from Chinese Turkestan on a journey of ex- 

 ploration to Tibet, has been received. Dr. 

 Hedin, who, when he sent ofP his courier, had 

 already explored 840 miles of unknown coun- 

 try, said he hoped to reach the monastic city 

 of Shigatse, 130 miles from Lhasa, at the end 

 of February. 



