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10. A new Meteoric Iron. — A beautifully fluted 425 lb. 

 (193.17 kilogr.) meteoric iron found in Owens Valley, California 

 in 1913 and not yet described has recently been added to the 

 National Collections through the generosity of Mr. Lincoln Ells- 

 worth of New York City. The iron, an octahedrite, has been 

 analyzed in great detail by Professor S. R. Brinkley of Yale Uni- 

 versity and a description of the same by the writer will appear in 

 a forthcoming number of the Memoirs of the National Academy 

 of Sciences. G. p. merrill. 



III. Miscellaneous Scientific Intelligence, 



1. Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. 

 Sixteenth Annual Report of the President, Henry S. Pritchett, 

 and Treasurer, Robert A. Franks, for the Year ending June 30, 

 1921. — The total resources of the Carnegie Foundation now 

 amount to $25,513,000, of which $15,192,000 belong to the per- 

 manent general endowment, $8,206,000 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 $570,000 to a reserve 

 fund to be expended in aiding universities and colleges to adopt 

 the new plan of contractual annuities. In the sixteen years of 

 the existence of the Foundation, a total sum of nearly nine mil- 

 lion dollars lias been distributed in retiring allowances and 

 pensions to 999 individuals. Of this sum former teachers of Har- 

 vard have received $705,000, of Yale, $609,000, of Columbia, 

 $525,000, of Cornell, $407,000 ; the remainder has gone to eighty- 

 five different institutions. There are now operative 379 retiring 

 alloAvances and 230 widows' pensions, 90 of which were granted 

 during the last year, entailing an annual expenditure of $959,690. 

 The average allowance paid is $1,575. 



It is particularly interesting to note that the Teachers Insur- 

 ance and Annuity Association of America, which was established 

 by the Foundation through a gift of $1,000,000 to provide insur- 

 ance and annuity protection for college teachers without overhead 

 charges, has written for teachers in 300 different institutions 982 

 insurance policies covering $4„973,000 of insurance and 776 

 annuity contracts providing $917,000 annual income at retire- 

 ment. A plan has been provided for the participation of 

 policy-holders in the management of the Association. Sixty-two 

 institutions have formally adopted the new plan of contributing 

 toward contractual retiring allowances for their teachers. 



The work of the Foundation, however, extends far beyond the 

 distribution of pensions to retiring teachers. Some of the prom- 

 inent subjects studied and discussed involve the critical examina- 

 tion of the medical schools of the country; of the training for 



