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THE GROWTH OF AN UNIVERSITY, 



Gross income, all sources :- 



1882 



1892 



1902 



1904 



1910 



14.015 

 29,000 

 53>i62 

 75»566 



The Public Grants are : — 



;;(Jio,ooo from Treasury as College. 

 2,000 from Treasury as University. 

 2,500 from Treasury, Special Grants. 

 10,000 from City of Liverpool, less ;£i,ooo for scholarships 

 of City students. 

 1,771 from City of Liverpool as Technical Money. 

 1,050 from Lancashire County Council. 

 500 from Birkenhead, less £2^0 for Birkenhead scholars. 

 400 from Bootle, less £iS^ fo** Bootle scholars. 

 400 from Cheshire County Council. 

 100 from St. Helen's. 



THE PLANETESIMAL HYPOTHESIS.— In the Trans- 

 actions of the Academy of Science of St. Louis, Vol. XIX., 

 No. 9, C. R. Keyes discusses the possible bearing upon the planet- 

 esimal hypothesis of the origin of the earth of the abundance of 

 meteorites occurring on the Painted Desert, in north-eastern 

 Arizona. On the borders of the desert is a remarkable truncated 

 cone, known as Coon Butte, in the vicinity of which 

 an exceptional abundance of meteoritic material is to be found, 

 and local tradition has long ascribed the depression in the top of 

 the hill to meteoritic impact. The author of the paper, however, 

 concludes that Coon Butte is probably of volcanic origin, numer- 

 ous similar phenomena in the vicinity showing undoubted connec- 

 tion with the explosive type of vulcanism. The great abundance 

 of meteoritic material in the neighbourhood he ascribes to favour- 

 able climatic conditions, coupled with marked deflative activity 

 on a hard rock stratum, rather than to extensive comminution of 

 a huge meteorite. Desert regions he considers to be exception- 

 ally favourable for the disclosure of abundant meteoritic material, 

 compared with moist lands ; it is not that meteoritic falls are 

 more frequent in desert regions than elsewhere, but that the 

 anomalous climatic conditions tend to give them greater promin- 

 ence. The chief meteoritic augmentation of the earth's volume 

 he considers to be in the form of dust, of which the abundance of 

 metallic grains in desert soils and arctic snows is evidence. The 

 principal ultimate source of ore materials is regarded as possibly 

 meteoritic in character rather than magmatic. 



