November 24, 1911] 



SCIENCE 



705 



Since that date, Dr. Metcalf has actively co- 

 operated. Two experts have been detailed by 

 him to assist in the vcork in Pennsylvania, 

 viz: Professor J. Franklin Collins and Pro- 

 fessor Ernest Shavf Eeynolds. The appropri- 

 ation of $5,000 by congress, secured through 

 the efforts of Senator Boies Penrose, and the 

 large appropriation of $275,000 by the state 

 of Pennsylvania, have been mentioned in the 

 preceding account in Science. Since the 

 Chestnut Blight Commission vcas organized, 

 Professor J. Franklin Collins has been in 

 charge of an instruction camp in Lancaster 

 County, vchere the scouts are trained and a 

 scientific investigation of the disease has been 

 begun by a special collaborator of the United 

 States Department of Agriculture, Dr. Caro- 

 line Eumbold. 



Through the active interest of Provost 

 Charles C. Harrison and his successor. Prov- 

 ost Edgar F. Smith, the University of Penn- 

 sylvania, in November, 1910, placed at the 

 disposal of the commission the apparatus of 

 the botanical department of the university, of 

 which Professor John M. MacFarlane is the 

 head. During the past summer and early fall, 

 Dr. Eumbold has been conducting a series of 

 cultures and experiments of the most impor- 

 tant nature. 



The public-spirited action of the authori- 

 ties of the University of Pennsylvania is espe- 

 cially deserving of commendation. Those in- 

 terested in this work look with confidence to 

 the university to make known new facts of 

 lasting value. 



I. C. "Williams 



TEE SABAS BEBLINEB FELLOWSBIP 

 The donor of the Sarah Berliner Fund, 

 Mr. Emile Berliner, of Washington, has taken 

 so much satisfaction in the work done by the 

 holders of the fellowship which it supports 

 that he has now doubled the original endow- 

 ment, and the fellowship will hereafter be 

 awarded every year, instead of every other 

 year. Applications for this fellowship should 

 be in the hands of the chairman of the com- 

 mittee, Mrs. Christine Ladd Franklin, 527 

 Cathedral Parkway, New York, by the first of 



January of each year; they should contain 

 (1) testimonials as to the value of work 

 already done, (2) copies of published con- 

 tributions, or other accounts of investigations 

 already carried out, (3) evidence of thoroughly 

 good health, (4) detailed plans for the pro- 

 posed use of the fellowship. Applicants must 

 already hold the degree of doctor of philos- 

 ophy, or be similarly equipped for the work of 

 further research. The value of the fellowship 

 is one thousand dollars, and it is available for 

 study and research in physics, chemistry and 

 biology (including psychology), in either 

 Europe or America. 



The directors of the foundation, besides 

 the chairman, are : President M. Carey Thomas, 

 Bryn Mawr College; Miss Laura Drake Gill, 

 president of the Association of Collegiate 

 Alumnse, Boston; President Ira Eemsen, 

 Johns Hopkins University, and Professor 

 William H. Howell, of the Johns Hopkins 

 Medical School. 



This is one of the two largest endowed fel- 

 lowships offered to women in the United 

 States. The donor of the fund, Mr. Berliner, 

 is well known as one of the perfecters of the 

 telephone and the inventor of the gramophone. 

 It is named in honor of the donor's mother, 

 who was a woman of remarkable force of 

 character. 



Most fellowships accessible to women — and, 

 in fact, the same thing is true of fellowships 

 for men — are given to recent graduates of 

 colleges, to enable them to proceed towards the 

 degree of doctor of philosophy. The object of 

 this endowment, on the other hand, is to give 

 to women who have shovsm, in work already 

 accomplished, promise as investigators an op- 

 portunity to pursue special scientific re- 

 searches — and, in particular, to tide them over 

 the period between the time when they deserve 

 to hold a good instructor's position in some 

 college and the time when they succeed in 

 obtaining it. Many doctors of philosophy are 

 forced to go into teaching in the preparatory 

 schools, and they thus lose in exhausting work 

 the very years when they are best fitted to be 

 original investigators — as has been forcibly 

 pointed out by Professor Woodworth in a 



