The Gypsum Industries Association has provided two industrial fellowships in the Department of Botany with a stipend of $750 each, besides an appropriation for purchase of special material and apparatus. The fellowships are offered for the academic year, 1919-20. The fellows are to investigate the value of gypsum and other sulphur compounds as fertilizers for various crops on various soils in the United States. This work will involve both plot cultures and pot cultures in the greenhouse. It will also involve the analyses of many soils for many crops.

In the acceptance of these and similar industrial fellowships the understanding is that the University shall appoint the fellows and that the results of their investigations shall be made public.

GIFTS

Mr. Roy D. Keehn, of Chicago, has given $200 for the support of a graduate fellowship in the Law School during the current academic year.

The Board of Trustees accepted, at its meeting held October 14, 1919, some 130 pieces of property-rugs, furniture, paintings, pottery, books, bric-a-brac, etc.-bequeathed to the University under the will of La Verne Noyes for use in Ida Noyes Hall. There were also presented by the executors of the will a portrait of Mr. Noyes by Louis Betts, and two bronzes. The portrait now hangs in Hutchinson Hall.

The Metropolitan Life Insurance Company has placed at the disposal of Professor E. O. Jordan, Chairman of the Department of Hygiene and Bacteriology, the sum of $3,200 to be expended in study of influenza and its complications. The Board of Trustees has added $2,000 to this amount to be used for a similar purpose in co-operation with investigations being conducted in Boston, New York, and Washington.

The University has received a pledge of $25,000 from a donor whose name is not announced, the fund to be used in purchasing materials for Haskell Oriental Museum. The University also has provided $5,000 from its funds, and there are other resources amounting to $5,600, including a recent gift of $500 from Mr. T. W. Robinson, of Chicago. Professor J. H. Breasted, Director of the Museum, is in Egypt engaged in examination and study of the exceptionally large amount of suitable objects which the war has permitted to accumulate. Already he has made a selection in Paris and in Cairo, some of which material has been received in Chicago.

ALUMNI WAR MEMORIAL

The committee to confer with a committee of the alumni on the question of a suitable memorial to be placed within the quadrangles of the University for alumni who gave their lives in the war with Germany and Austria-Hungary consists of Mr. Charles L. Hutchinson, President Judson, and Mr. Harold H. Swift. The alumni committee is composed of Messrs. Frank McNair, Leo Wormser, and Emery B. Jackson.

NEW HALLS FOR WOMEN

The Committee on Buildings and Grounds, under instruction from the Board of Trustees, has authorized Mr. C. A. Coolidge, architect of Ida Noyes Hall, Harper Library, and other University buildings, to prepare sketches for a group of women's halls eventually to be erected on the north portion of the block on which Ida Noyes Hall stands. Funds have not yet been provided for these much-needed buildings.

THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PRESS

By action of the Board of Trustees a plan for reorganization of the Press has been adopted. The operations of the Press are now conducted upon the following scheme of organization:

The functions of the Press consists of:

The publication and manufacture of books and journals, the printing of official documents and other matter for the University, and of the retail sale of books and supplies for the benefit of the University community.

The general administration of the Press is in the hands of a committee of the Board of Trustees known as the Committee on Press and Extension.

The administration of the Press so far as details are concerned is in the hands of an Administrative Committee consisting of the President of the University, the Business Manager of the University, the Secretary of the Board of Trustees, the Auditor, the manager of each of the three departments of the Press, the General Editor, the Chairman of the Committee on Press and Extension, and the Chairman of the Subcommittee on the Bookstore.

The Administrative Committee has a subcommittee on publications and printing consisting of the Managers of the Publishing and Manufacturing Departments and the General Editor.

The Faculty Board heretofore known as the Board of the University Press will be known hereafter as the Board of University Publications. This Board is authorized to recommend the publication of books and journals, and to make suggestions as to typographical style and usage.

THE LATE LA VERNE NOYES

The Board of Trustees at the meeting held October 14, 1919, adopted the following resolutions as an expression of appreciation of the notable

gifts to the University made by Mr. La Verne Noyes, who died during the previous summer:

Resolved, That on occasion of the death of La Verne Noyes, of this city, the Board of Trustees of the University of Chicago desires to record its deep sense of the loss to the University of so wise and generous a friend, and to the state of so good a citizen. His large gifts to the University were planned by him with great care, with a clear vision of results to be expected, and with profound patriotic feeling. Mr. Noyes was the architect of his own fortunes and had in consequence a vivid sympathy with the ambitions and efforts of young men and women. His loyalty to his country and his conviction of the righteousness of its cause in the Great War made him eager to do some lasting thing for the perpetuation of national gratitude to those who ventured the supreme sacrifice of life at the call of the Republic. The beautiful and effective structure for our women students, Ida Noyes Hall, is at the same time a memorial to the cherished companion of Mr. Noyes for many years, and an incomparable element of help to the life of our young women for generations to come. The liberal provision for scholarships in the La Verne Noyes Foundation to be enjoyed by those who served in the American Army or Navy in the late war, or their descendants, is a lasting expression of the devotion to his country of a good citizen. The name of La Verne Noyes will be kept in memory in the University of Chicago.

Resolved, That the foregoing expression of the sentiment of the Board of Trustees be inscribed in the minutes of its proceedings.

FORMS FOR GIFTS TO THE UNIVERSITY

Following are the approved forms for use in bequests made to the University:

a) I give, devise, and bequeath to the University of Chicago..

b) I give, devise, and bequeath to the University of Chicago.

as an endowment fund, the income only to be used for.

said endowment fund to be known as the......

Dollars,

c) I give, devise, and bequeath to the University of Chicago the sum of Four Thousand Dollars for the establishment of a scholarship at the University of Chicago to be known as the..

...Scholarship.

CHARLES HITCHCOCK

BY THOMAS W. GOODSPEED

The study of American genealogies is a fascinating pursuit. The student is constantly discovering interesting and surprising things. In the University Record of October, 1914, a sketch of Sidney A. Kent related how his ancestors settled about 1670 the wilderness of Suffield, Connecticut. Charles Hitchcock was a prominent lawyer, as Mr. Kent was a prominent business man of Chicago. While Mr. Kent's forefathers were subduing the Suffield wilderness, the ancestors of Mr. Hitchcock were hewing out homes for themselves in the same wilderness not more than five miles to the north, in the town of Springfield, Massachusetts, being allotted lands on the border of Suffield. The tract, indeed, was so near being a part of Suffield that it was expressly stipulated that care must be taken not to encroach on that town's domain. The ancestors were neighbors and no doubt acquaintances. Two hundred years later the two men descended from them were neighbors and acquaintances in a great city nearly a thousand miles away.

The writer can recall the names of only a dozen men of his native village on the Hudson River. One of these men was Dwight Hitchcock, a direct descendant of the Hitchcocks of Springfield, who in 1853 sold to my father the steam foundry of the village. He had wandered only a little more than a hundred miles from the home of his fathers.

The earliest ancestor of Charles Hitchcock in America was Luke, who became temporarily a citizen of New Haven about 1644, six years after what was then the colony of New Haven was founded. After the lapse of a hundred and fifty years, a descendant put on record the following account of Luke Hitchcock:

He had received a large tract of land lying in the eastern part of New England and came out with a view of taking possession of the same. When he arrived he found it inhabited by numerous hordes of natives determined to resist all encroachments of the English. In this situation he determined to abandon the enterprise, and settled in Wethersfield (Connecticut). He was peculiarly fortunate in cultivating the friendship of the Indians, who, in testimony of their attachment, gave him a deed to the town of Farmington. This deed was a clear and valid title to the land, but was so little thought of that it was destroyed by his wife, who used it to cover a pie in the oven.

It is quite consistent with this account that when Luke Hitchcock first appeared in New England he seems to have been uncertain where

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