514 Scientific Intelligence. 



2. The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teach- 

 ing. Sixth Annual Report of the President, Henry S. Pritch- 

 ett, and of the Treasurer, Robert A. Franks. Pp. vi, 154. 

 New York City, October, 1911. — The total fund now in the hands 

 of the Trustees of the Carnegie Foundation amounts to something 

 more than $12,000,000, giving an income for the past year of 

 $590,500. Of this latter sum, all but about $10,000 was expended, 

 most of it for retiring allowances and pensions to teachers and 

 their widows ; less than $54,000 was needed for administrative 

 expenses. The fact that income and expenditure are now so 

 closely balanced gives emphasis to the discussion by the President 

 in this report as to the general subject of college pensions. In 

 his judgment they should carry with them, as is true of many 

 similar funds, a contributory feature. He urges, also, that inas- 

 much as the Foundation can in the future care for only a small 

 fraction of the college teachers in America, it is the duty of each 

 college to mature plans for assuming its own obligations in this 

 direction. It is to be noted that of the additional gift of $5,000,- 

 000 promised by Mr. Carnegie in March, 1908, the first installment 

 Of $1,000,000 was paid in March a year ago. The total number 

 of institutions now on the accepted list is seventy-two, the Uni- 

 versity of Virginia having been added during the current year. 



The present volume contains, in its second part (pp. 45-123), a 

 considerable number of chapters by the President, dealing with 

 the vital general problems in which the universities and the pro- 

 fessional schools of the country are concerned. He notes a remark- 

 able development in the educational movement in the United States 

 as shown in the increase of students, the adjustment of the college 

 to the four-year high school, and the increase of the number of 

 secondary schools of the four-year type. He sees also a gratifying 

 progress in the various lines of professional work and in the move- 

 ment of State institutions towards educational and political free- 

 dom. 



3. Report of Superintendent of the Coast and Geodetic Sur- 

 vey, O. H. Tittmann, showing the Progress of the Work from 

 July 1, 1910, to June SO, 1911. Pp. 584 '; 9 pocket maps. Wash- 

 ington, 1912. — The annual volume from the Coast and Geodetic 

 Survey gives the usual interesting summary, by the superinten- 

 dent, of the work done in the country and the outlying terri- 

 tories. To be noticed is a reconnaissance for primary triangula- 

 tion to extend from the 39th parallel triangulation near Colorado 

 Springs to the Canadian boundary. This was begun in May and, 

 at the end of the year, four hundred miles of progress had been 

 made. It is also stated that the Texas-California arc of primary 

 triangulation from Texas to the Pacific coast, connecting the 98th 

 meridian triangulation with that in the vicinity of San Diego, 

 was completed during the year. Progress has also been made in 

 the surveying and marking of the boundary lines between the 

 United States and Canada. Of the six Appendixes accompanying 

 the volume are to be mentioned : one on the magnetic observa- 

 tions of the Survey, by R. L. Faris ; on triangulation along the 



