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harm, and of the broadening and elevation of the functions of univer- 

 sities in the true sense of these adjectives, for an institution is broad in 

 proportion to its contact with the full range of serious thought and 

 with all classes of its natural constituency, and it is elevated in pro- 

 portion as it is really useful, the notions of the leisure classes to the 

 contrary notwithstanding. 



The general summary shows an annual production of nearly 39 

 million dollars of which, however, a part appears to be the smelting 

 and refinement of ores mined outside the state. The record shows 

 that all the mineral industries felt the impulse of the country's general 

 prosperity. The coal production reached a value of over five million 

 dollars. The plaster, hydraulic cement, clay, salt, and stone industries 

 all exhibit marked advances. Altogether it is a good showing for a 

 state whose great industry is agriculture. T C C 



Results of the Bramier-Agassiz Expedition to Brazil. 



I. The Decopod and Stomatopod Crustacea. By Mary J. Rathbur. 

 23 pp., 1 plate. 

 II. The Isopod Crustacea. By Harriet Richardson, 3 pp., 4 

 figures. 



III. The Fishes. By Charles H. Gilbert, 23 pp. 1 plate. 



IV. Two Characteristic Geologic Sections on the Northeast Coast of 

 Brazil. By. J. C. Branner, 17 pp., 5 sketch maps and sec- 

 tions, Proc. Wash. Acad. Sci., August 1900. 



Nos. I, II, and III relate to existing forms of life, and belong to 

 that realm of current geology which we conveniently, and doubtless 

 wisely, leave to the zoologists. 



No. IV gives in as much detail as field circumstances would permit 

 two sections opened by railways running from the coast toward the 

 interior, and traversing the border formations somewhat nearly normal 

 to their strike. The section along the Bahia and Minas Railway lies 

 at about 1 8° S. Lat., and that along the Alagoas Railway between 9 20 ' 

 and 9 40' S. Lat., the two sections being about a thousand kilom- 

 eters apart. They show essentially the same structure : a series of rela- 

 tively young sediments lapping back over old crystalline rocks. The 

 age of the sediments is open to question, and the problem is regarded 

 as too large for specific discussion in the paper. The evidence is 

 thought to point to the following conclusions : 



