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 Institute, $25,000; Morehouse College, Atlanta, $5,000; Fisk University, Nashville, $5,000; Mayesville Industrial School, Mayesville, S. C., $1,000; equipment of normal schools for negroes in North Carolina, $4,050; equipment of county training schools for negroes, $10,000; support of professors of secondary education, $34,130; state agents for white rural schools, $40,800; state agents for negro schools, $34,500; educational research in New Hampshire, $5,500; farm demonstration work in Maine and New Hampshire, $8,500.

the occasion of his seventieth birthday on March 16, 1916, Professor G. Mittag-Leffler and his wife made a joint last will and testament of peculiar significance in the domain of science. Extracts from this will have recently been published by Professor Mittag-Leffler in a pamphlet, so that the features of the document are now public property. By the terms of the will there is founded a mathematical institute to bear the name of the donors, which institute is to be housed in their villa at Djursholm, Stockholm. The institute is to be fully established at the death of the donors, and is to consist of the villa in question, the mathematical library of Professor Mittag-Leffler, and a fund for the encouragement of pure mathematics, particularly in the four Scandinavian countries, Sweden, Denmark, Finland and Norway, but more especially in Sweden. The library is to be open to all mathematicians. Certain financial assistance is to be given to those who show genuine aptitude for research and discovery in the domain of pure mathematics. There is also provided for the bestowal of medals and of prizes in the form of sets of the Acta Mathematica.

relief expedition is to be sent out from the American Museum of Natural History and the American Geographical Society in the hope of rescuing Donald B. MacMillan and the members of the Crocker Land Expedition sent out in 1913 by the American Museum of Natural History, the American Geographical Society and the University of Illinois. The party is believed to be several hundred miles northwest of northern Greenland. The first relief expedition is frozen in at Parker Snow Bay, 150 miles south of Etah. The second expedition will try to join forces with the first and then proceed to Etah. The steamship Danmark has been chartered for the trip, and the sum of $11,000 has already been pledged—$6,000 by the American Mu- seum and its friends and $5,000 by the American Geographical Society.