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SCIENCE 



437 



Board of Surveys and Maps. Mr. Wallace 

 succeeds Alfred D. Fliun, secretary of Engi- 

 neering Foundation, and has been assigned to 

 the Committee on Cooperation. Members of 

 the Advisory Council of the board have been 

 urging the American Engineering Council to 

 aid them in obtaining an adequate program 

 involving a larger appropriation for topo- 

 graphic maps. Congress has asked for an 

 outline of this program and as soon as this 

 is completed the council vcill decide on the 

 support that can be given. 



The prospect of large lumber ojjerations in 

 South America carried on by interests from 

 the United States is opening a field of promis- 

 ing possibilities to the American forester, and 

 this situation has caused the faculty of the 

 HHew York State College of Forestry to con- 

 sider the advisability of adding Spanish to 

 the language requirements of the forestry 

 course. The value of Spanish to the Amer- 

 ican forester is a reflection of the growing 

 scarcity of forests in the United States and 

 Canada. The consequential high prices of 

 wood products make lumbering in distant 

 countries profitable. South America, accord- 

 ing to authorities of the college, presents a 

 new sphere of discovery in wood utilization 

 as there are many species of trees about which 

 little is known regarding their applicability to 

 commercial purposes. The pine forests of 

 Chili and southern Brazil occupy vast areas. 

 The Brazilian Parana pines are said to cover 

 260 million acres and will produce from five 

 to ten thousand board feet per acre. Re- 

 strictive export duties and the lack of ship- 

 ping facilities have prevented earlier exploita- 

 tion of these natural resources of South 

 America, but the prodigality of the United 

 States in the use of its forests has overcome 

 these obstacles. 



tion bill signed by Governor Miller. The Col- 

 lege of Agriculture wiU receive, roughly, 

 $1,250,000, while the Veterinary College, it is 

 estimated, will receive $100,000, which is 

 slightly less than last year's appropriation. 



The ISTorth Carolina Legislature has granted 

 the University of Korth Carolina $925,000 as 

 a two-year maintenance fund and $1,490,000 

 for permanent improvements for two years. 



Professor George C. Embody has returned 

 to Cornell after spending the period since last 

 September establishing at the University of 

 Washington the first college of fisheries in 

 an American university. 



Dr. Ira M. Hawley, of Cornell University, 

 has been appointed professor of zoology and 

 entomology at the Utah Agricultural College 

 and Entomologist for the Utah Agricultural 

 Experiment Station. Sherwin Maeser, Ph.D., 

 University of California, has been appointed 

 associate professor of chemistry at the college. 



Dr. Lewis Knudson, of the department of 

 botany of Cornell University, has gone to 

 Spain to assist in establishing departments of 

 plant physiology in the Universities of Madrid 

 and Barcelona. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL 

 NOTES 



The College of Agriculture and the College 

 of Veterinary Medicine of Cornell University 

 will receive approximately $1,350,000 from 

 the State as a consequence of the appropria- 



DISCUSSION AND CORRESPONDENCE 



PALEOBOTANY AS VIEWED BY TWO 

 GEOLOGISTS 



In the current April American Journal of 

 Science apjsear two papers reciting the larger 

 stratigraphic and faunal evidence bearing on 

 climate in time. Professor A. C. Coleman in 

 the first of these lectures cites especially 

 Dr. Knowlton's views of all-tropic ancient 

 climates thus: 



Part I. of Dr. Knowlton's paper roiises en- 

 thusiasm with its splendid array of forests mostly 

 tropioal from all parts of the world cuhniniajting 

 in the Eocene flora. His account of the vegetation 

 of the past conflrms amd heightens the impression 

 left 'by paleozoology that during the greater part 

 of the wo(Pld'a hS^ory temperatures have been 

 genial even m the far north and fax south wheare 



