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boon onipliiyod ami tho annunl payment to 

 profosaora in tluiac fifty-one inatitutions has 

 been incronacd $421,712. 



A further statement by the board allowed 

 that it ia now paying the sahary and traveling 

 expenses at twelve of the state universities of 

 the southern states of professors of secondary 

 education engaged in promoting the estab- 

 lishment of public high schools. Since the 

 beginning of this work, five years ago, 912 

 now public high schools have been established 

 in tho southern states; 824 teachers have been 

 added to the schools which were already in 

 existence, 050 new public high school build- 

 ings have been constructed at a cost of $0,000,- 

 000, and tho funds for the annual support of 

 high schools have been increased by $1,088,- 

 894. 



The board has contributed between $000,- 

 000 and $700,000 to forty-one schools for 

 negroes. 



The board's statement calls attention to its 

 work in helping to fight the boll weevil by 

 fai'm demonstration in southern states. It 

 has contributed $400,000 for this purpose. 

 Tho Department of Agriculture took over the 

 work in some of tho states so that the work 

 of the general education board is now limited 

 to Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South 

 Carolina and Georgia. The salaries and ex- 

 penses of 219 agents are paid by the board. 

 These men are conducting demonstrations on 

 20,000 farms. They have also organized 

 boys' corn clubs with a present membership 

 of r)0,000 and girls' canning and poultry clubs 

 with a rapidly growing membership. 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 

 Dr. W. II. Emmons, of the University of 

 Chicago, has been elected director of the Min- 

 nesota State Geological Survey, as well as 

 professor in the university. 



Professor J. G, Lipman has been made 

 director of the experiment station and of the 

 college farm at Rutgers College. 



Ei5v. Joel II. Metoalf has moved his ob- 

 servatory to Winchester, Mass., eight miles 

 from Boston, where he expects to renew his 

 work of photographing asteroids. 



Dr. Eiohakd Dedekind, professor of mathe- 

 matics in the Technical School at Brunswick, 

 has celebrated his eightieth birthday. 



At tho Lister Institute Drs. E. E. Atkin and 

 W. Ray have been appointed to be assistant 

 bacteriologists, Mr. A. W. Bacot to be en- 

 tomologist and Dr. Casimir Funk to be a 

 research scholar. 



Professor R. H. Tucker, astronomer at the 

 Lick Observatory, has returned to Mt. Hamil- 

 ton after three years leave of absence. He has 

 been in charge of the astronomical expedition 

 to Argentina, under the auspices of the Car- 

 negie Institution. 



Dr. and Mrs. Charles W. Eliot intend to 

 sail from this country on November 7 on a 

 trip around the world to last about eight 

 months. 



Dr. R. R. Gates expects to sail for Europe 

 on November 3, to carry on investigations 

 during the winter in the botanical laboratories 

 at the Royal College of Science, London. 



A complimentary dinner was given on Oc- 

 tober 26 by the instructing staff of the Massa- 

 chusetts Institute of Technology to meet the 

 three professors who have retired this year 

 from active work at the institute. These are 

 Gaetano Lanza, professor of theoretical and 

 applied mechanics; Peter Schwamb, professor 

 of machine design, and Francis W. Chandler, 

 professor of architecture. 



Dr. N. C. Rioker, professor of architecture, 

 and Professor I. O. Baker, in charge of the 

 department of civil engineering of the Univer- 

 sity of Illinois, have been appointed by Gov- 

 ernor Deneen as members of the commission 

 to revise and codify the building laws of the 

 state of Illinois, which commission was au- 

 thorized by the last general assembly of the 

 state. The other members of the commission 

 are Mr. R. E. Schmidt, Mr. W. C. Armstrong 

 and Mr. W. S. Stahl, of Chicago; Mr. W. H. 

 Merrill, of Lake Forest, and Mr. G. J. Jobst, 

 of Peoria. Dr. Rieker is chairman of the 

 commission. 



Dean C. B. Connelley, of the School of 

 Applied Industries of the Carnegie Technical 

 Schools, has been appointed a member of the 



