At the last meeting of the President and Fellows of Harvard College the following appointments were made: George Frederick Marsh, Jr., Assistant in Prosthetic Dentistry; William Daniel Square-bridge, Instructor in Anaethesia; Albert Benton Jewell, Instructor in Operative Dentistry; Guy Edward Youngburg, Assistant in Biological Chemistry; Burton Merrill Varney, Assistant in Meteorology; Thorndike Saville, Assistant in Geology; Sidney Bradshaw Fay, lecturer on History; Warren Milton Persons, lecturer on Economics; Charles Lyon Chandler, Curator on South American History and Literature in the College Library; and Clarence Macdonald Warner, Curator of Canadian History and Literature in the College Library.

Leaves of absence were granted to Dr. Francis B. Grinnell, Instructor in Preventive Medicine and Hygiene, for the remainder of 1916-1917; Professor H. S. White, for the remainder of 1916-1917 and half of 1917-1918; and Professor J. H. Woods, for the year 1917-1918.

The following scholarships were awarded: Joseph Eveleth Scholarship to George Thomas Paine, M. I. T.; Daniel A. Buckley Scholarships to Gilbert Edward Gayler and Clement Taggart Bates 2GB, of Cambridge; Harvard Club of San Francisco Scholarship to James Douglass Adams uL, of Palo Alto, Cal., and the Associated Harvard Clubs Scholarship to John Stuart Dudley 1L, of Columbia, South Carolina.

A gift of $20,000 from Mrs. George Putnam was announced to establish a fund in memory of her brother, James Jackson Lowell '58, the income of which is to be used for the purchase of books for the College Library.