Miscellaneous Intelligence. 165 



Dr. Pritchett discusses in detail the policy that has been 

 adopted in dealing with institutions, and with individual teachers 

 not falling directly under the provisions of the gift. One read- 

 ing these pages sees at once the careful thought which this part 

 of the work has received, which is especially necessary in view 

 of the surplus income now available. 



In addition to the information given in regard to the special 

 work of the Foundation, a series of chapters also contain dis- 

 cussions of a number of problems concerning the higher educa- 

 tion in this country ; these wilFbe read with profit by all who are 

 connected with the work of advanced teaching. Some of the 

 topics discussed are : The place of the college in American edu- 

 cation, the evolution of the American type of university, the 

 distinction between college and university, and the relation in 

 both of efficiency to cost. The fact that there are more than 

 950 institutions in the United States and Canada which claim to 

 be either colleges or universities, and that out of 500 of these 

 330 have incomes of less than $50,000, gives point to the sugges- 

 tions made ; as also the additional fact that the cost of educating 

 a student at one of our larger institutions involves an expendi- 

 ture of $420 per student. 



5. Bulletin of the Mount "Weather Observatory. William J. 

 Humphreys, Director ; William R. Blair, Assistant Director. 

 Prepared under the direction of Willis L. Moore, Chief of 

 Weather Bureau. Pp. 63, with 9 plates, 3 figures, and 6 charts. 

 Washington (IT. S. Weather Bureau), 1908. —The Mount 

 Weather Observatory is situated in Virginia, 20 miles from 

 Harper's Ferry, and at an altitude of 1725 feet on the top of the 

 Blue Ridge Mountains. The bulletin now inaugurated is planned 

 to appear quarterly and will contain accounts of the meteoro- 

 logical researches conducted at the observatory named by the 

 Weather Bureau. The first number is largely devoted to 

 methods and apparatus used in obtaining by kite flights the 

 observations of the upper air, which have proved to be of such 

 value in weather forecasting. It argues well for the further 

 development of the weather service, which has accomplished 

 such good work since it started in 18*70, that systematic and well 

 directed work in the various lines of scientific research connected 

 with weather forecasting should be carried on. 



6. Publications of the Allegheny Observatory of the Western 

 University of Pennsylvania. Volume I, No. 1. On the Distor- 

 tion of Photographic Films ; by Frank Schlesinger. Pp. 6. 

 Published from the Magee Fund. — This discussion of a subject 

 of much importance in astronomical work has recently appeared. 



7. Les Prix Nobel en 1905. Stockholm 1907 (Imprimerie 

 Royale. P. A. Nostedt & Soner). — This is another volume of the 

 s&ries (see vol. xxiv, 508) relating to the Nobel Prizes. It gives 

 biographical notices and portraits of the recipients for 1905, 

 namely, in science, Philipp Lenarcl, Adolf von Baeyer, and Robert 

 Koch, also representations of the medals and diplomas. The lec- 

 tures delivered by these gentlemen at Stockholm close the volume. 



