A new scholarship has been provided in the department of geology and geography to be known as the Josiah Dwight Whitney scholarship. The interest of $5000 will be used either as one scholarship of $200, or as two scholarships of $100 each, to pay the travelling expenses of students in geology and geography to the Rocky Mountains.

Two Emerson scholarships of $225 each will be available next year for students who have taken the degree of S. B. in the division of geology either in a four year course in geology or mining and metallurgy or in general science in geology, and who may wish to study, as graduates, a course in geology leading to the degree of S. M., or who may take the fifth year leading to the degrees of mining engineer and metallurgical engineer.

The following sub-committees have been appointed in the departments of geology and geography: on the Gardner collection of photographs--Professor R. deC. Ward, chairman, Mr. P. S. Smith and Professor J. B. Woodworth; on the Geological Museum--Professor R. T. Jackson, chairman, Professor T. A. Jaggar, Professor J. E. Wolff and Professor J. B. Woodworth; on the Whitney Scholarship--Professor W. M. Davis, chairman, Professor T. A. Jaggar and Professor J. B. Woodworth.