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bility of later increase to $150. On May 6 an 

 examination will be held for tlie position of 

 assistant geologist. This position under the 

 State Geological Survey pays a starting sal- 

 ary of $75 a month with possibility of increase 

 to $120. The positions are open to persons 

 over 21 years, including non-residents of Illi- 

 nois. These examinations are unassembled. 

 Questions relating to training and experience 

 will be mailed to the applicants at their 

 homes. The answers can be mailed to the 

 commission, thus doing away with the neces- 

 sity of non-residents coming to Illinois. If 

 necessary, those who give satisfactory evidence 

 of ability in this preliminary examination will 

 be called together later for a personal inter- 

 view at which final ratings will be assigned. 

 For application blanks, address the Illinois 

 State Civil Service Commission at Spring- 

 field, Illinois, or Eoom 904, 130 North Fifth 

 Avenue, Chicago. 



The New York State Civil Service Com- 

 mission announces an examination on April 

 8 for zoologist in the State Museum, State 

 Education Department, at a salary of $1,200. 

 Candidates (men only) must have a general 

 knowledge of biology, special training in zool- 

 ogy and a particular acquaintance with the 

 animal life of New York state. They should 

 also have a particular knowledge of the best 

 methods of museum display, with ability to 

 supervise work in taxidermy. Special credit 

 will be given to those who have had actual 

 experience in museum work and who have 

 superior educational qualifications. There 

 will at the same time be held an examination 

 for examiner in the Educational Department, 

 open to men and women. These examinations 

 are held to provide eligible lists for permanent 

 appointments at salaries of $900 to $1,500, and 

 also to provide for a considerable nmnber of 

 temporary examiners required during the sum- 

 mer months at salaries from $75 to $125 a 

 month. In all groups except commercial sub- 

 jects and drawing, candidates must be gradu- 

 ates of a normal school or of an approved col- 

 lege and must have had three years' teaching 

 experience in an approved secondary school in 



the subject or subjects in which they desire to 

 be examined. No written examination will be 

 given but candidates will be rated on educa- 

 tion, training and experience as determined 

 from the sworn statements in their applica- 

 tion blaiJts and from responses to such in- 

 quiries as the commission may deem advisable 

 to make. An oral examination may also be 

 held. In filling out application blanks, candi- 

 dates are requested in answer to question 20 

 to make full statement regarding experience. 

 Applications will now be accepted for nine 

 groups, including mathematics, physical sci- 

 ence and biological science. 



The agricultural department of the Univer- 

 sity of Minnesota is taking the lead in a 

 movement to establish a national honorary 

 society for agricultural students similar to Phi 

 Beta Kappa and Sigma Xi. The plans for 

 such a society have been formulated by a com- 

 mittee of faculty members of the college of 

 agriculture. Professor A. V. Storm being 

 chairman of the committee. Correspondence 

 with other agricultural colleges is being con- 

 ducted and it is hoped that such a society may 

 be organized some time during the present 

 college year. The standards of the new soci- 

 ety will be high and membership will be based 

 entirely upon scholarship in agriculture. The 

 present plan is to take in senior students of 

 the college of agriculture, graduate students in 

 agriculture, and men who are doing practical 

 work of unusual value in the field of practical 

 agriculture. The movement started about a 

 year ago with a group of agricultural students. 



CoREOSiON of metallic structures is one of 

 the most serious problems of modern engi- 

 neering. It still awaits its solution. While 

 it is a chemical phenomenon, electrical engi- 

 neers are vitally interested in it, on account 

 of the trouble of corrosion of underground 

 structures often attributed to the stray cur- 

 rents from tramways. For the solution of the 

 problem, electrical engineers and electrochem- 

 ists must combine. For this reason the New 

 York section of the American Electrochemical 

 Society has accepted an invitation of the 

 American Institute of Electrical Engineers to 



