In the research council, will be utilized to support during a five-year period several scholarships whose holders, working in the laboratories of cooperating universities, will turn over to American educational institutions the benefits of investigations. The plan, expected to build up a continuously expanding corps of expert investigators, will be put into operation by selection of a group of fellows, scientific students, and of an "twenty-five to thirty years" when imagination and creative powers are at their best. London.—In view of the movement among theater employees for a minimum wage of $15 a week and pay for rehearsals, someone has unearthed the pay roll of the Queen's theater of half a century ago and given it to the public for comparison. In it, Sir Charles Wyndham is shown as receiving $15 a week, while Sir Henry Irving received less by $2. Toole, the leading star, got $55, and Miss Ellen Terry, the leading lady, was put down at $25. Gives $500,000 to help physics research. New York.—An appropriation for the New York State University for the year 1909 was $1,500,000.  Of $500,000 to promote fund- mental research in physics and chemistry was announced here by the Rockefeller foundation. The fund, to be administered by the Rockefeller foundation, is to be administered by the Rockefeller foundation. 