s > Scientific Intellig< nee. 



III. Miscellaneous Scientific Intelligence. 



1. T/i< Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teach- 

 in;/. Tenth Annual Report of the President, Henry S. Prit- 

 chett and of the Ireasurer, Robert A. Franks. Pp. vi;l4i. 

 New York City, October, 1915. — In the regular work of the Carne- 

 gie Foundation, the total number of retiring allowances and pen- 

 sions for the past year was 445 (in 1914, 432), of which 118 were 

 widows" pensions ; 43 new names were added to the list. The 

 Foundation since the beginning has paid out the large sum of 

 $4,225,000 to 639 individuals. The expenditure in the past year 

 for allowances and pensions was $674,000 ($635,000 in 1914), while 

 $55,000 was devoted to the department of educational inquiry 

 and $37,000 to administration. 



The annual volume, in addition to the routine matter, discusses 

 a number of problems of great importance from the educational 

 standpoint. The subject of legal education in this country, pre- 

 sented in Bulletin No. 8, by Professor Redlich of the University 

 of Vienna (see vol. xxxix, p. 611), has been further investigated 

 with striking results. It seems that there are 147 resident schools, 

 of which all but ten confer degrees, and 17 correspondence schools, 

 a total of 164. It is worthy of note that of the degree-conferring 

 schools, Connecticut has 1, Massachusetts 4, Pennsylvania 5, New 

 York 9 ; while the District of Columbia has 8, California 10, and 

 Illinois 12 with 8 correspondence schools in addition. 



Other subjects now undertaken for study, but not reported 

 upon at length, are those of Engineering Education and the 

 Training of Teachers in Missouri. The legislative results follow- 

 ing the publication of the Foundation's study of education in 

 Vermont (Bulletin No. 7 ; see vol. xxxvii, p. 564) give a gratify- 

 ing evidence of what the Foundation is able to accomplish. A 

 discussion of the charges for tuition in one hundred representa- 

 tive institutions for the past ten years is given in another chapter, 

 with interesting remarks showing the uniform tendency to ad- 

 vance the fees. Finally, to the study which comes closest to the 

 definite work of the Foundation, and for which it has done most, 

 that of systems of pensions, fifty pages are devoted, with a tabu- 

 lar summary of 65 pension systems for teachers and 58 industrial 

 and institutional systems. All of these are regarded as unsound. 

 The special Bulletin, now in press, describing the ten years' 

 experience of the Foundation with its own system, and plans for 

 its future development, will be looked forward to with great 

 interest. 



2. Public Education in Maryland: A Report to the Mary- 

 land Educational Survey Commission; by Ahraham Flexner 

 and Frank P. Bachman. Pp. xviii, 176, with illustrations. 

 New York, 1916 (The General Education Board). — The Commis- 

 sion, charged with the investigation of the education in Mary- 

 land, was appointed by the legislature in 1914, and at its request 



