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ence. The leading business bodies of Balti- 

 more and the farmers' organizations through- 

 out the state passed resolutions to the same 

 effect. JSTo subject before the Maryland legis- 

 lature this past winter occasioned such wide- 

 spread interest. 



The Maryland Geological Survey began 

 highway work ten years ago with the estab- 

 lishment of a highway division and has grad- 

 ually developed the public interest that has 

 made possible the present progressive highway 

 movement in that state. Eour years ago the 

 State Aid Highway Law was passed and two 

 years later an appropriation was made for 

 conunencing the construction of the Balti- 

 more-Washington road under the Geological 

 Survey. This is the first instance on record 

 where a state geological survey has been en- 

 trusted with a great public work of this char- 

 acter and it is a matter of no small interest 

 that a bureau which has been successfully 

 maintaining its scientific work has at the same 

 time secured the support of the people of the 

 state in the largest undertaking in its history. 



INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS FOR THE SUP- 

 PRESSION OF ADULTERATION 



The general committee of organization of 

 the First International Congress for the Ke- 

 pression of Adulteration of Alimentary and 

 Pharmaceutical Products, to which attention 

 was called in your issue of March 20, 1908, 

 has published the following additional items 

 respecting the work of the congress: 



The committee particularly asks from chem- 

 ists a report of general interest on any subject 

 of their own choice relating to the principal 

 topic of the congress or a report treating of 

 special questions entering into the restricted 

 elements of one of the eight sections of the 

 congress. 



The committee further asks of aU manufac- 

 turers and dealers definite notes indicating, 

 in the group of foods or drugs which most 

 specially interest them: first, the frauds and 

 adulterations of which they have most to com- 

 plain; second, the measures of protection they 

 ask for; third, criticisms of the laws and regu- 

 lations in force; fourth, the additions, viz., 

 coloring matters, preserving agents, etc., which 



they ask to be authorized for their products 

 or which they complain of seeing authorized. 



The committee further asks that there be 

 forwarded as soon as possible the titles of 

 papers which are to be sent from the United 

 States, the whole paper or abstract thereof to 

 follow later. Inasmuch as the congress is 

 fixed to begin on the eighth of September, it is 

 important that American contributors do not 

 delay in preparing the reports they wish to 

 present. I further urge all who are intend- 

 ing to prepare papers for the congress to send 

 me their titles without delay in order that 

 they may be transmitted to the general com- 

 mittee. 



The general committee also gives notice that 

 the exhibition of pure and adulterated foods 

 and drugs which it was intended to prepare 

 has been postponed on account of the short 

 time intervening before the opening of the 

 congress. 



I extend a second invitation to American 

 chemists, manufacturers and dealers to sub- 

 scribe to the congress, and will gladly under- 

 take to forward such subscriptions, if sent to 

 me at Washington. As before stated, the 

 subscription price for an ordinary member is 

 $4 and for a donating member $20. I am 

 pleased to add that I have already received 

 and forwarded to Geneva a goodly number of 

 subscriptions of American members. 



H. W. Wiley, 

 President of the American committee 

 and vice-president of the congress 



CORRESPONDENCE IN REGARD TO THE 

 PENSIONING OF WIDOWS OF PRO- 

 FESSORS BY THE CARNEGIE FOUN- 

 DATION FOR TEE ADVANCEMENT 

 OF TEACHING 



Columbia TJntversity 

 division of 

 philosophy, psychology and anthropology 

 Garrison-on-Hudson, IST. T., 



March 21, 1908 

 President Henry S. Pritchett, LL.D., 



The Carnegie Foundation for the Advance- 

 ment of Teaching, New York City 

 Dear Dr. Pritchett: 



May I venture to ask whether Provision (6) 

 under the rules adopted for the granting of 

 normal retiring allowances by the Carnegie 



