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SCIENCE. 



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Laboratory, at Woods Hole, Mass., a central 

 station. This was found to be impractic- 

 able, and the executive committee stated in 

 its report to the board of trustees for 1903 

 that it had concluded that the best mode 

 of dealing with this important field of re- 

 search was to organize a biological experi- 

 mental department, to which could be re- 

 ferred all questions and problems of evolu- 

 tion, specific differentiation, heredity, etc. 

 This was to include the establishment of an 

 investigating station at Cold Spring Har- 

 bor, where ground and some buildings were 

 offered, and also the establishment of a col- 

 lection and experimental marine biological 

 station at the Dry Tortugas. 



The above conclusions were accompanied 

 by a recommendation that the department 

 be established and allotments made to begin 

 the Avork. The board of trustees approved 

 the recommendations. 



The department of experimental biology 

 was organized by the appointment of Dr. 

 Charles B. Davenport as director of the 

 Station for Experimental Evohition at 

 Cold Spring Harbor, Long Island, and 

 Dr. Alfred G. Mayer as director of the 

 Marine Biological Laboratory at the Dry 

 Tortugas, Florida. 



A grant of $34,250 was made to the sta- 

 tion at Cold Spring Harbor, and of $20,000 

 to the Marine Bi'ological Laboratory at the 

 Dry Tortugas. 



DEPARTMENT OF ECONOMICS AND SOCIOLOGY. 



For the present purposes of the depart- 

 ment the following named eleven divisions 

 have been established, and the gentlemen 

 whose names appear have been placed in 

 charge of them, respectively : 



Division 1. Population and Immigration. — 

 Professor Walter F. Willcox, Cornell University, 

 Ithaca, N. Y. 



Division 2. Agficulture and Forestry, includ- 

 ing Public Domain and Irrigation. — President 

 Kenyon L. Butterfield, Rhode Island College of 

 Agriculture and Mechanic Arts, Kingston, R. I. 



Division 3. Mining. — ilr. E. W. Parker, Geo- 

 logical Survey, ^^'ashington, D. C. 



Division 4. Manufactures. — Hon. S. N. D. 

 North, Census Office, ^Vashington, D. C. 



Division 5. Transportation. — Professor W. Z. 

 Ripley, Newton Centre, Mass. 



Division 6. Domestic and Foreign Commerce. 

 — Professor Emory R. Johnson, University of 

 Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pa. 



Division 7. Money and Banking. — Professor 

 Davis R. Dewey, Institute of Technology, Boston, 

 Mass. 



Division 8. The Labor Movement. — Carroll D. 

 Wright, 1429 New York Avenue, Washington. 

 D. C. 



Division 9. Industrial Organization. — Professor 

 J. W. Jenks, Cornell University, Ithaca, N. Y. 



Division 10. Social Legislation, including Provi- 

 dent Institutions, Insurance, Poor Laws, etc. — Pro- 

 fessor Henry W. Farnam, 43 Hillhouse Avenue, 

 New Haven, Conn. 



Division 11. Federal and State Finance, in- 

 cluding Taxation. — Professor Henry B. Gardner, 

 54 Stimson Avenue, Providence, R. I. 



TERRESTRI.VL MAGNETISM. 



The subject of an international magnetic 

 bureau is fully presented by Dr. L. A. 

 Bauer in 'Year Book' No. 2, accompanying 

 papers, pp. 203-212. The executive com- 

 mittee recommended to the board of trus- 

 tees that a grant of $20,000 be made for 

 magnetic research by the Carnegie Institu- 

 tion, it being proposed not to take up such 

 magnetic work as is already well provided 

 for by national bureaus, but only such as 

 lies outside the proper sphere of activity 

 of these bureaus, the nature of whose ap- 

 propriations usually limit their work with- 

 in the confines of their countries. Further- 

 more, the purpose is to gather together and 

 unite in one harmonious whole all existing 

 knowledge and facts, so that the directions 

 in which fixture work can most profitably 

 be accomplished will be set forth. The 

 investigations promise not only to have sci- 

 entific utility, but to reach results of great 

 practical importance, e. g., the determina- 

 tion of the magnetic data necessary for 

 safe navigation at sea. 



