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$53,600 for expenses of administration, publication, etc. An 

 unexpended balance of $147,000 remained, which is included in 

 total amount of the fund as stated above. During the year 115 

 pensions aggregating $177,000 were granted, bringing the num- 

 ber of pensions now being paid up to 318, involving a cost of 

 $466,000; this statement alone shows how widely the benefits of 

 this great contribution to the cause of the higher education are 

 being distributed. There are now 67 institutions in the accepted 

 list, including five state institutions, one of these at Toronto, 

 -Canada. 



An important change has been made the past year in the work- 

 ing of the system, the service pension, which allowed an indi- 

 vidual to retire at any age after twenty-five years of professional 

 service, having been withdrawn except in the case of teachers 

 who from disability are unable to continue active work. On the 

 other hand, the age pension, which as previously allows retirement 

 at an age of sixty-five years, is extended to all who have served 

 twenty-five years, including their work as instructors. The 

 reasons which have led to these changes are clearly stated by the 

 President. A variety of other problems are also discussed by 

 him: these are in part administrative, dealing with college finances 

 and financial reports, advertising, the function of the trustee, and 

 other related points. Other matters treated of are educational 

 and have to do with the standards of entrance examinations, and 

 of college and university instruction in general. The Foundation 

 aspires to be a powerful force in raising and unifying college 

 requirements and standards; in this direction it can accomplish 

 great good, but constructive criticism from without, in the case 

 of an established institution, involves many delicate questions 

 which require careful handling that good results may be assured. 



4. Relief Maps. — The geological department of the University 

 of Wisconsin has prepared a geological relief map, or model, of 

 the state of Illinois, copies of which may be purchased from the 

 Board of Regents at Madison for $100. The map framed is 6 

 feet 7 inches X 3 feet 9 inches, and is on a horizontal scale of 

 five miles to one inch and a vertical scale of 1320 feet to one 

 inch. A model of the Malaspina glacier, Alaska, including the 

 adjacent region near Mt. St. Elias and Yakutat Bay, may also be 

 obtained for $125. It is about 7 feet X 4f feet, and is on a scale 

 (horizontal and vertical) of 1 : 80,000 or one inch to one and one- 

 quarter mile. 



5. Report of the Librarian of Congress and Report of the 

 Superintendent of the Library Building and Grounds for the 

 fiscal year ending June 30, 1909. Pp. 220, with 6 illustrations. 

 Washington, 1909. — The Library of Congress is so universally 

 recognized now as the standard of work of that kind in the coun- 

 try that the report of Mr. Putnam has great interest for those 

 especially concerned. It may be noted that the appropriation for 

 1910 amounts to $855,000 as against an expenditure of $685,560 

 in 1909. The Library on June 30th, 1909, contained 1,703,000 



