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THE POPULAR SCIENCE MONTHLY 



for the second half of the academic 

 year 1911-12. — Dr. Edna Carter, in- 

 structor in physics at Vassar College, 

 has been awarded the Sarah Berliner 

 research fellowship for women. She 

 will continue her work in physics at 

 Cambridge under Professor J. J. Thom- 

 son, and in the laboratory of Professor 

 Wein, of Wiirzburg, where she received 

 her doctorate. 



Dr. C. G. Abbot, director of the 

 Astrophysical Observatory of the 

 Smithsonian Institution, will this sum- 

 mer conduct an expedition to southern 

 Mexico to make measurements of the 

 sun 's radiation, which will be compared 

 with simultaneous observations on Mt. 

 Wilson. The congress has made a spe- 

 cial appropriation of $5,000 for this 

 work. 



The subscription to the memorial 

 to President Grover Cleveland exceeded 

 $100,000 on the seventy -fourth anni- 

 versary of his birth. It will be remem- 

 bered that the memorial is to be a 

 tower forming part of the graduate col- 

 lege of Princeton University. — Mr. 

 James A. Patten has added $50,000 to 

 the $200,000 which he had given to the . 

 Northwestern Medical School for the 

 study of tuberculosis. 



In the New York senate on March 

 21 a bill was introduced to incorporate 

 ' ' The Carnegie Corporation of New 

 York. ' ' The incorporators named in 

 the bill are Andrew Carnegie, Senator 

 Elihu Eoot, president of the Carnegie 

 Endowment for International Peace; 

 Dr. Henry S. Pritchett, president of 

 the Carnegie Foundation for the Ad- 

 vancement of Teaching; William H. 

 Frew, president of the board of trus- 

 tees of the Carnegie Institute of Pitts- 

 burgh; Eobert S. Woodward, president 

 of the Carnegie Institution of Wash- 

 ington; Charles L. Taylor, president of 

 the Carnegie Hero Fund Commission; 

 Eobert A. Franks, president of the 

 Home Trust Company, and James Ber- 

 tram, Mr. Carnegie's secretary. Under 

 the language of the bill the incorpora- 

 tors are authorized ' ' to receive and 

 maintain a fund and apply the income 

 to promote the advancement and dif- 

 fusion of knowledge among the people 

 of the United States, by aiding tech- 

 nical schools, institutions of higher 

 learning, libraries, scientific research, 

 hero funds, useful publications, and by 

 such other agencies and means as shall 

 from time to time be found appro- 

 priate. ' ' 



