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accredited to Prussian schools. The next assignment of teachers 

 to Prussia will be made in June 1909, for the semester beginning 

 with October 1. 



In addition to the interesting detailed statements in regard to 

 the special work of administering the Carnegie Foundation, Dr. 

 Pritchett contributes also a series of chapters on various univer- 

 sity and college questions, which are most suggestive, and which 

 should be carefully considered by those engaged in such work. 

 Some of the topics discussed are the following : Progress toward 

 unity in college requirements for admission ; the admission of 

 conditioned and of special students ; class room and laboratory 

 instruction by teachers ; the support and organization of higher 

 education; the standards of professional education in the United 

 States. An account is also given of the various denominational 

 boards engaged in regulating education. 



Great as is the value of the work accomplished by the Carnegie 

 Foundation for our higher educational institutions in granting 

 .retiring allowances to teachers, it is obvious that, under Dr. 

 Pritchett's wise and enlightened administration, its usefulness is 

 extending out into a much broader sphere, and will bring about 

 higher standards and more uniformity in ideals and methods. 



2. Carnegie Institution of Washington. — Recent publications 

 of the Carnegie Institution are given in the following list (con- 

 tinued from vol. xxvi, pp. 519). 



Year Book No. 7, 1908. Pp. vii, 240, with twelve plates. Feb- 

 ruary, 1909. — Noticed on p. 26V. 



No. 85. Index of Economic Material in Documents of the 

 United States, California, 1849-1904. Prepared for the Depart- 

 ment of Economics and Sociology of the Carnegie Institution of 

 Washington; by Adelaide R. Hasse. Pp. 316, 4to. 



No. 90. Guide to the Manuscript Materials for the History of 

 the United States to 1*783, in the British Museum, in minor 

 London Archives and in the Libraries of Oxford and Cambridge ; 

 by Charles M. Andrews and Frances G. Davenport. Pp. 

 xiv, 499. 



No. 93. The Rotation Period of the Sun, as determined from 

 the motions of the Calcium Flocculi ; by George E. Hale and 

 Philip Fox. Pp. 54, with 2 plates, 4 figures. — The investiga- 

 tion of calcium flocculi has led to the conclusion that the rota- 

 tion periods for different latitudes show the existence of an 

 equatorial acceleration similar to that previously observed in the 

 case of sun-spots, faculse and the reversing layer. This accelera- 

 tion, approximately stated, varies uniformly with the latitude. 

 No definite conclusions can be drawn as to the relative velocities 

 of the different phenomena named. 



No. 96. Condensation of Vapor as induced by Nuclei and 

 Ions. Third Report ; by Carl Barus. Pp. vi, 139. With 49 

 text figures. 



No. 97. Supplementary Investigations of Infra-red Spectra : 

 Part V, Infra-red Reflection Spectra ; Part VI, Infra-red Trans- 



