466 Scientific Intelligence. 



its chemistry is of the up-to-date variety. Something of this 

 sort — a -diminutive Czapek — has long been needed for the use of 

 those workers in biochemistry who are interested primarily in 

 plant rather than animal tissues. l. b. m. 



I\^. Miscellaneous Scientific Intelligence, 



1. The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teach- 

 ing. Summary of Fifteenth Annual Report of the President, 

 Henry S. Pritchett, and Treasurer, Robert A. Pranks. Pp. 

 vi, 171. New York, 1920 (522 Fifth Avenue).— The total 

 resources of the Carnegie Foundation now amount to $24,628,000, 

 of which $15,192,000 belong to the permanent general endowment, 

 $7,571,000 to a reserve fund to be spent in the retirement (during 

 the next sixty years) of teachers now in associated institutions, 

 $1,250,000 to the endowment of the Division of Educational 

 Enquiry, and $390,000 to a reserve fund to be expended in aiding 

 universities and colleges to adopt the new plan of contractual 

 annuities. 



During the fifteen years of its existence the Foundation has 

 distributed nearly $8,000,000 in retiring allowances and pen- 

 sions to 909 persons. Of this Harvard has received $625,000, 

 Yale, $548,000, and Columbia, $464,000. Sixteen other universi- 

 ties have each received between one and two hundred thousand 

 dollars each. The remainder has gone to. eighty dilferent insti- 

 tutions. There are now operative 356 retiring allowances and 

 199 widows' pensions, entailing an ainiual expenditure of $870,- 

 670. The average retiring allowance paid is $1,568. 



During the past year three institutions, Bryn Mawr College, 

 Queen's University, and Whitman College, were added to the 

 list of associated institutions, and twelve institutions, in addition 

 to the twenty-nine that had already done so, formally adopted 

 the new plan of contractual annuities — The Teachers Insurance 

 and Annuity Association of America, established by the Founda- 

 tion to provide insurance and annuity protection for college 

 teachers without overhead cliarges, has written 653 insurance 

 policies covering $3,356,747 of insurance and 554 annuity con- 

 tracts providing $624,398 annual income at retirement. The 

 special features of the new retiring allowance system of Harvard 

 University are discussed at some length. By this plan each 

 teacher appointed for more than one year is required to contrib- 

 ute 10 per cent of his annual salary to a fund which is to be 

 invested by the Corporation and to be used, together with its 

 accumulations, to purchase at his retirement an annuity in some 

 company approved by the Corporation. The general subject of 

 pension legislation is also treated in detail as in earlier reports, 

 and many points open to criticism are pointed out. Attention is 

 called to the fourteenth bulletin on the training of teachers for 

 puhlic schools (see vol. 50, p. 171) ; also to a third bulletin on 

 legal education soon to appear. 



2. National Academy of Sciences. — The annual meeting of 



