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000 is given for the benefit of the employees of 

 the library. There is also a bequest of $25,- 

 000 to the Smithsonian Institution; a bequest 

 of objects of art with $20,000 for their care to 

 the Metropolitan Museum; of $50,000 to the 

 New York Polyclinic Hospital; of $25,000 to 

 the New York Skin and Cancer Hospital, and 

 of $25,000 to the laboratory of surgical re- 

 search of New York University, of whose med- 

 ical department Dr. Henry Draper was at one 

 time dean. 



Section L — Education — of the American 

 Association for the Advancement of Science, 

 of which the chairman is Professor Paul H. 

 Hamis, of Harvard University, and the sec- 

 retary, Stuart A. Courtis, has arranged a two- 

 days' program, that of Wednesday, December 

 30, being devoted to educational measurement, 

 and that of Thursday, December 21, to the 

 exceptional child. In the mornings there will 

 be presented some thirty ten-minute papers, 

 giving the results of researches on these sub- 

 jects, and on each afternoon there will be four 

 half-hour addresses. The address of the re- 

 tiring vice-president and chairman. Dr. P. P. 

 Claxton, U. S. Commissioner of Education, is 

 on the American rural school. 



As has already been stated in Science the 

 American Physiological Society will hold its 

 twenty-seventh annual meeting at St. Louis, 

 Mo., December 27-30. Scientific papers and 

 demonstrations for the meeting have been re- 

 ported by the following : R. W. Keeton and F. 

 G. Koch; F. S. Lee and C. L. Scott; F. P. 

 Knowlton and A. C. Silvermann; Ida M. 

 Hyde; F. I. Zeman, J. Kohn and P. E. Howe; 

 S. Tashiro; E. S. Pearce; S. Simpson and E. 

 L. Hill; W. L. Gaines; W. B. Cannon, C. A. 

 Binger and E. Litz; C. C. Fowler, M. E. Eeh- 

 fus and P. B. Hawk; "W. H. Spencer, M. E. 

 Eehfus and P. B. Hawk; E. S. Hoskins; H. 

 MeGuigan and C. L. v. Hess; W. E. Burge; 

 F. C. MacLean; G. W. Crile, F. W. Hitch- 

 ings and J. B. Austin; A. L. Beifeld, H. 

 Wheelon and C. E. Lovelette; F. F. Eogers 

 and L. L. Hardt; C. H. Dallwig, A. C. KoUs 

 and A. S. Loevenhart; J. F. McClendon; K. 

 E. Drinker and C. K. Drinker; M. L. Fleisher 



and L. Loeb; F. S. Lee and D. J. Edwards; 



B. H. Schlomovitz, J. A. E. Eyster and W. J. 

 Meek; J. A. E. Eyster and W. J. Meek; C. 

 Brooks and A. B. Luckhardt; S. Simpson and 

 A. T. Easmussen; T. S. Githens and S. J. 

 Meltzer; C. Voegtlin; B. M. Potter; E. G. 

 Martin and P. G. Stiles; M. Dresbach; W. J. 

 Meek and J. A. E. Eyster; E. G. Martin; H. 

 Ginsburg; A. J. Carlson; F. C. Becht and H. 

 MeGuigan; H. E. Basinger and A. L. Tatum; 



C. Voegtlin. 



A PRESS dispatch from Denver states that 

 the Federal Commission on Industrial Eela- 

 tions has determined upon an investigation of 

 the country's benevolent organizations. The 

 scope of the investigation is said to be stated 

 by Mr. Frank P. Walsh, chairman of the com- 

 mission, as follows: 



The commission will investigate the rights, 

 powers and functions of self-perpetuating organi- 

 zations under their present charters and the ex- 

 tent to which these charters may be stretched 

 under the present Constitution of the United 

 States and the restrictions which present constitu- 

 tional limitations impose. It will investigate the 

 attitude of high finance toward industrial ques- 

 tions — what organizations such as the Rockefeller 

 Foundation are doing to relieve industrial unrest; 

 how the policies of these organizations are shaped 

 and by whom; what part the source of their in- 

 come plays in determining what these policies 

 shall be; whether self -perpetuating organizations 

 such as the Eockefeller Foundation are a menace 

 to the future political and economic welfare of 

 the nation; what figure they cut in politics; the 

 labor policy of ' ' Big Business ' ' in general. 



A CABLEGRAM to the daily papers says that 

 when the war broke out the Prussian military 

 authorities requisitioned the trained horses of 

 Elberfeld. Dr. Vogel, their owner, protested 

 and the Eoyal Academy of Berlin supported 

 the protest. A reprieve was granted, but 

 later the horses were requisitioned for an artil- 

 lery battery and their death on a Flanders 

 battlefield has just been announced. It will be 

 remembered that the " thinking horses " of 

 Elberfeld were first brought to the attention 

 of the public some years ago by their trainer. 



