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SCIENCE. 



[X. S. Vol. XXI. No. 543. 



We should like to ask Mr. Vanderlip whether 

 bank presidents and vice-presidents are not also 

 likely to become ' narrow and provincial ' and 

 to lack ' impersonal view and judgment.' It 

 appears that in accordance with Mr. Yander- 

 lip's views university professors should ad- 

 minister the affairs of the National City Banli. 



THE CARyEGIE FOUNDATION. 



The foundation endowed by Mr. Andrew 

 Carnegie with bonds of the market value 

 $11,500,000, to establish a retiring pension 

 fund for college professors, was incorporated 

 at Albany, on May 10, with its principal office 

 in New York City. The papers are signed by 

 Nicholas Murray Butler, Alexander C. Hum- 

 phreys, Henry S. Pritchett, Eobert A. 

 Franlis and Frank A. Yanderlip for the board 

 of directors. 



The objects of the foundation are thus de- 

 scribed : 



The particular objects for which said corpora- 

 tion is formed shall be: 



(a) To receive and maintain a fund and apply 

 the income thereof as follows : 



To provide retiring pensions, without respect 

 to race, sex, creed, or color, for the teachers of 

 universities, colleges and technical schools in the 

 United States, the Dominion of Canada and New- 

 foundland, who, by reason of long and meritorious 

 service in these institutions shall be deemed by 

 the board of directors to be entitled to the assist- 

 ance and aid of this corporation or who by reason 

 of old age or disability may be prevented from 

 continuing in the active work of their profession; 



To provide for the care and maintenance of the 

 widows and families of the said teachers; 



To make benefactions to charitable and educa- 

 tional institutions, and generally to promote the 

 cause of science and education; provided, however, 

 that the said benefactions shall be made to, and 

 the said retiring pensions shall be paid to the 

 teachers, their widows or families, of onlj' such 

 institutions as are not under control of a sect, 

 do not require a majority of their trustees gov- 

 erning bodies, olliccrs, faculties or students to 

 belong to any specified sect, and do not impose 

 any theological test. 



THE INCREASED ENDOWMENT OF 

 HARVARD COLLEGE. 



It is announced that $1,800,000 has been 

 contributed toward the endowment of $2,500,- 



000 which is being collected ' to increase the 

 present totally inadequate amount available for 

 the salaries of the teaching staff of the college.' 

 of Harvard University. The circular which 

 contains this information and appeals for addi- 

 tional subscriptions is signed by Bishop Will- 

 iam Lawrence, Francis L. Higginson, Charles 

 S. Fairchild, Henry S. Howe, Francis E. Ap- 

 pleton, Augustus Hemenway, Robert Bacon, 

 Theodore Roosevelt, James J. Storrow and 

 Benjamin Carpenter. 



The circular says : " The position of Harvard 

 to-day among American universities is due not 

 so much to its age, traditions, or able admin- 

 istration as to its noble line of teachers. That 

 the teachers in the college should be the best 

 in the land; that the older professors should 

 be free from the cares of a straitened income ; 

 that the younger teachers should be able to 

 give themselves without distraction to their 

 work, and that the best men should not be 

 drawn away to other colleges, but should see 

 before them reasonable promotion in work and 

 salary, is essential to the leadership of Har- 

 vard and the culture of her sons." It is pointed 

 out that the total of salaries in Harvard Col- 

 lege is $437,821, and the average per capita 

 allowance for the staff of 279 teachers is only 

 $1,570. " In these days of increasing cost of 

 living and of higher salaries in commercial 

 and industrial pursuits," the circular adds, 

 " the alumni and friends of Harvard will not 

 allow the men who teach their boys and who 

 fill the chairs of the great teachers of the past 

 to receive these meagre wages." 



THE INTERNATIONAL ANATOMICAL CON- 

 GRESS AT GENEVA. 



TiiK first International Congress of An- 

 atomists will be held at Geneva, Switzerland, 

 on the 7th to 10th of August. The following 

 national societies are to participate in this 

 congress: The Anatomical Society of Great 

 Britain, the Anatomische Gesellschaft, the 

 Association des Anatomistes, the Association 

 of American Anatomists and the Unione 

 Zoologica Italiana. The organization of the 

 congress has been entrusted to a committee 

 representing these societies, and consisting of 

 Professors Minot, Nicolas, Romiti, Sjmaing- 



