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of Public Works to act officially until the aerial navigation law becomes an actual fact. Charles Elliott, president of the On tario Bar Association, deplored the lack of adequate remuneration to lawyers, in an address delivered at the annual meet ing, Dec. 27-28 in Osgoode Hall. He pointed out that the average net earnings of lawyers in the Province were about $1,000 per year. The meeting adopted a recommendation, after long debate, favoring the establishment of a divorce court in Ontario. These officers were elected: Hon. President, E. F. B. John ston, K.C., president; W. C. Mikel, K.C.,; vice-presidents M. H. Ludwig, K.C., F. M. Field, K.C., W. J. McWhinney, K.C.; recording secretary, George C. Campbell; corresponding secretary, R. J. Maclennan; treasurer, A. McLean Macdonell, K.C.; historian, Col. W. N. Ponton. The thirteenth national convention of the legal fraternity of Phi Delta Phi was held at the Sinton Hotel at Cincin nati on December 27 and 28. Delegates were in attendance from forty-three active chapters, established in as many law schools in the United States and Canada. Petitions were considered from six law schools in which there are no chapters at present and charters were granted to petitioners from the state universities of North and South Dakota and Oklahoma and Tulane University, where chapters will be installed in the near future. The following general officers were re-elected: President, Earl G. Rice; secretary-treasurer, Emmett A. Donnelly, Milwaukee; Cataloguer, George A. Katzenberger, Greenville, O. Phi Delta Phi is the oldest graduate fraternity among law students, having been established at the University of

Michigan by Thomas M. Cooley in 1869. A quarterly magazine known as The Brief is maintained by the fraternity and edited by Albert B. Chandler of St. Louis. The Law Division of the Library of Congress is making a systematic effort to bring its collection of foreign law to a state of high efficiency. In May, 1910, Mr. Edwin M. Borchard, the Law Librarian, was appointed as ex pert in international law to the Ameri can Agency in the North Atlantic Coast Fisheries Arbitration at the Hague. Tak ing advantage of his presence in Europe, Mr. Borchard visited the principal countries of western Europe, in order to secure information from lawyers, judges, professors and law librarians as to the important legal literature of their re spective countries. This information thus secured is made the basis for the purchase of the most important foreign legal works. The Law Librarian is to undertake the preparation of guides to foreign law and critical surveys of the important lietature. The first publica tion, a guide to the law and legal litera ture of Germany, is to appear in Jan uary. The surveys for Austria-Hun gary, France, Italy, Spain and the other countries of Europe are to follow, it being proposed to publish two or three monographs a year. The enterprise has met with the heartiest endorsement of the Comparative Law Bureau of the American Bar Association. The first annual meeting of the trus tees of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace was held at Wash ington, D. C., on Dec. 14. A budget was adopted which authorizes an expen diture in the fiscal year beginning July 1, 1912, of $487,270. The division of International Law, under the direction