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some judicious measure, the general scale of 

 compensation for the teachers of the univer- 

 sity. 



I direct that the professors supported from 

 this endowment be provided with suitable 

 assistance in their several departments, by the 

 appointment of instructors of lower grades, 

 and of draughtsmen, foremen, mechanics, 

 clerks or assistants, as occasion may require, 

 my desire being that the professors be free to 

 devote themselves to whatever part of the 

 teaching requires the greatest skill and largest 

 experience, and to the advancement of their 

 several subjects. 



I direct that the president and fellows be 

 free to erect buildings for the purposes of 

 this endowment, and to purchase sites for the 

 same, but only from the income of the endow- 

 ment. 



I direct that all the equipment required to 

 illustrate teaching or to give students oppor- 

 tunity to practice, whether instruments, dia- 

 grams, tools, machines or apparatus, be always 

 kept of the best design and quality, so that no 

 antiquated, superseded, or unserviceable im- 

 plement or machinery shall ever be retained 

 in the lecture-rooms, workshops or laboratories 

 maintained from the endowment. 



Finally, I request that the name Gordon 

 McKay be permanently attached to the pro- 

 fessorships, buildings and scholarships or 

 other aids for needy students, which may be 

 established, erected or maintained from the 

 income of this endowment. 



THE AilERWAy ASSnCIATIOy FOR THE 



ADVAWEMEyT OF SCfEyCE A .YD 



AFFILIATED tiOCIETIES. 



The American Association for the Advance- 

 ment of Science will meet at St. Louis during 

 convocation week, beginning on December 2S, 

 1903, under the presidency of the Hon. Car- 

 roll D. Wright, U. S. commissioner of labor 

 and president of Clark College. We hope to 

 publish shortly full details in regard to the 

 meeting and the local arrangements. 



The American Society of Naturalists will 

 meet at St. Louis during convocation week. 

 The exercises will consist as usual of a lec- 

 ture followed by a smoker, a business meeting 



and a discussion on Wednesday afternoon, and 

 a dinner in the evening followed by the ad- 

 dress of the president, professor William Tre- 

 lease, director of the Missouri Botanical 

 Garden. 



The sixteenth winter meeting of the Geo- 

 logical Society of America will be held at St. 

 Louis, Mo., probably in a parlor of the Plant- 

 ers Hotel. The meeting will be called to 

 order by President S. F. Emmons at 10 o'clock 

 A.M., on Wednesday, December 30. The meet- 

 ing ot the Cordilleran Section will be held 

 January 1 and 2, 1904, in the Academy of 

 Sciences, San Francisco. 



The American Chemical Society will meet 

 in St. Louis on December 28 and 29. The 

 headquarters will be the Southern Hotel, and 

 the meeting place will be the Central High 

 School Building. The retiring address of 

 the President, Dr. John H. Long, will be given, 

 probably, on Wednesday evening at 7 :30. 

 Subject : ' Some Problems in Fermentation.' 



The American Psychological Association 

 will meet at St. Louis on Tuesday and Wednes- 

 day of convocation week under the presidency 

 of Dr. W. L. Bryan, president of the Univer- 

 sity of Indiana. 



The next meeting of the American Philo- 

 sophical Association will be held at Princeton, 

 N. J., on December 29 and following days. 

 The hospitalities of the meeting and program 

 are also extended to those members of the 

 American Psychological Association who do 

 not meet with their own association in St. 

 Louis. 



We hope to publish next week official no- 

 tices in regard to the other scientific societies 

 meeting during convocation week. 



HCIEyTlFIC yOTES AyO NEWS. 

 The medical faculty of the University of 

 Buffalo has invited Dr. Samuel J. Meltzer, 

 of New York, to deliver the Harrington lec- 

 tures for 1903. The subject selected by Dr. 

 Meltzer is ' Edema, a consideration of the 

 physiological and pathological factors con- 

 cerned in its formation.' The lectures will 

 be delivered in the Medical College, November 

 30, and December 1, 2 and 3, at 5 p.m. 



