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priated by the state legislature for the main- 

 tenance and extension of this equipment, and 

 it is believed that the same liberal policy will 

 be continued. 



By offering these research fellowships at 

 $500, and throwing them open to graduates 

 of both American and foreign universities, the 

 station hopes to secure a picked body of men 

 imbued with the true spirit of genuine in- 

 vestigators who will do graduate work of high 

 grade. It is expected that valuable results 

 will accrue to the station, and that a body of 

 experts will be developed, some of whom may 

 be attached later to the regular corps of sta- 

 tion investigators. A circular giving full in- 

 formation will soon be issued, and can be ob- 

 tained upon application to the director of the 

 Engineering Experiment Station, Urbana, 

 Illinois. 



L. P. Breckenridge, 

 Director of the Engineering Experiment Sta- 

 tion. 



University of Illinois, 

 Urbana, III., 



February 23, 1907 



THE CARNEGIE INSTITUTE 

 Mr. Andrew Carnegie on April 6 notified 

 the president and board of trustees of the 

 Pittsburg Carnegie Institute that he was send- 

 ing them $6,000,000. Of this amount $5,000,- 

 000 is United States Steel Corporation 5 per 

 cent, bonds and $1,000,000 in cash. The cash 

 is to be used in erecting more technical school 

 buildings. The bonds are an endowment. 

 One million dollars is to be added to the en- 

 dowment of $2,000,000 already given the 

 schools, and the other $4,000,000 is to be added 

 to the institute's present $2,000,000 endow- 

 ment. 



In his letter, as published in the daily 

 papers, Mr. Carnegie says : 



The director and teachers of the Technical 

 Schools participate in the pension fund established 

 by me for the advancement of learning, and this 

 should be availed of. Those of the other depart- 

 ments do not. A pension system is, therefore, to 

 be established for them out of the endowment 

 fund; after the death of the recipient the pension 

 to be continued to the widow in all cases where 

 needed. 



I desire gratefully to acknowledge my unpay- 

 able indebtedness to yourself and the trustees for 

 services which have resulted in such complete 

 triumph. My highest hopes will be realized if the 

 future yields such golden harvest as the past. 



As we have already announced, the dedica- 

 tion of the new building of the institute, 

 erected by Mr. Carnegie at the cost of $5,- 

 000,000, will take place on the afternoon of 

 April 11, and will be attended by many dis- 

 tinguished guests from Europe and the United 

 States. The program which has been arranged 

 in connection with the ceremonies will last 

 for three days. In addition to a reception and 

 inspection of the buildings on Thursday 

 morning and a concert in the evening, there 

 will be on Friday a reception at the Carnegie 

 Technical Schools, a presentation of addresses, 

 and in the afternoon speeches by distinguished 

 guests and in the evening a dinner by the 

 trustees in honor of Mr. and Mrs. Carnegie 

 and invited guests. On Saturday morning 

 honorary degrees will be conferred on foreign 

 guests by the Western University of Pennsyl- 

 vania, and in the afternoon there will be an 

 excursion on the river and a visit to the 

 Homestead Steel works of the Carnegie Steel 

 Company. 



. SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 



The spring meeting of the council of the 

 American Association for the Advancement 

 of Science will be held in the Assembly Hall 

 of the Cosmos Club, Washington, D. C, on 

 the afternoon of April 17, 1907, at 4 :45 p.m. 



The annual session of the National Aca- 

 demy of Sciences will be held in Washing- 

 ton, D. C, beginning on Tuesday, April 16, 

 at 11 A.M. The place of meeting will be the 

 National Museum. 



The American Philosophical Society will 

 hold its annual meeting at Philadelphia on 

 April 18, 19 and 20. 



Dr. George Otis Smith has been appointed 

 director of the U. S. Geological Survey to fill 

 the vacancy caused by the election of Dr. 

 Charles D. Walcott to the secretaryship of the 

 Smithsonian Institution. Dr. Smith received 

 the bachelor of arts degree from Colby Col- 

 lege in 1893, and the doctorate of philosophy 



