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professor's family need to spend. Indi- 

 viduals and families vary in their necessi- 

 ties and standards of living as much in 

 ■university circles as in other circumstances 

 of life. Probably, however, it will be a 

 fair approximation to the facts if we esti- 

 mate the cost of living in the localities of 

 the United States in which universities 

 most comparable to those of Germany are 

 situated, taking all of these variables into 

 account, as one and a half times greater 

 than in Germany. 



Compared with other classes in the com- 

 munity, the German university professor is 

 still better off than his American colleague. 

 He ranks financially with very important 

 legal and administrative officers; and no 

 principal of a normal school or head of a 

 city system of schools approaches in in- 

 come from educational work the income 

 received by a considerable percentage of 

 university professors. The German gov- 

 ernments pay teachers in the elementary 

 schools well, and the teachers in the sec- 

 ondary schools especially well, but the full 

 professor in a university receives over four 

 times as much as the former and over twice 

 as much as the latter class. The financial 

 status of the university professor in Ger- 

 many is thus seen to be at the top in the 

 educational world and on a level with all 

 except the nobility and the more successful 

 of business men. It is unnecessary to 

 revert to the dissimilar position of the uni- 

 versity professor in America. And human 

 nature being what it is, the higher relative 

 prosperity of the German professor prob- 

 ably seems as important to him as his 

 higher absolute prosperity. 



ing apparatus are provided by the state the 

 survey shall be located at the state university. 



The commission, consisting of the governor, 

 the superintendent of public instruction and 

 the president of the state university, met for 

 organization, July 25, 1908. A director was 

 appointed and instructed to begin at once the 

 preparation of reports on building stone, road 

 material and oil and gas. 



A number of parties were at once organ- 

 ized and active field work pursued for sis 

 weeks. L. L. Hutchison, assistant director of 

 the survey, had charge of a party in the oil 

 fields in the vicinity of Tulsa and Muskogee. 

 Members of this party were: W. J. Cross, B. 

 C. Belt, A. C. Reeds and T. E. Corr. Dr. D. 

 W. Ohern had charge of a party in the north- 

 ern part of the state engaged in studying 

 building stone, oil and gas and Portland 

 cement rock. H. A. Everest, E. Z. Carpenter 

 and H. G. Powell were in this party. Pierce 

 Larkin made a reconaissance of the Cretaceous 

 deposit along Eed Eiver from Ardmore east 

 to the Arkansas line. Dr. J. W. Beede, of 

 Indiana University, studied the Pennsylvania- 

 Permian contact in the northern part of the 

 state. Chester A Eeeds and Key Wolf 

 studied the economic products of the Ar- 

 buckle mountains. Gaylord Nelson collected 

 data on the lead, zinc and tripoli deposits in 

 the northeastern part of the state. 6. W. 

 Kneisly visited the granite quarries in the 

 Wichita and Arbuckle mountains. Frank A. 

 Herald and Chester C. Clark made a recon- 

 naissance of the gypsum region in western 

 Oklahoma looking for deposits of gypsite. 



A geologic map of Oklahoma is being pre- 

 pared, and it is the intention to publish pre- 

 liminary reports on the oil and gas regions, 

 the available road material, and the building 

 stone of the state and a report on the econo- 

 mic resources of the Arbuckle moimtains. 

 Chas. N. Gould 



THE OKLAHOMA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY 

 The Oklahoma Geological Survey was 

 established by the act of the first legislature 

 of the state of Oklahoma. The sum of $15,- 

 000 was appropriated. The law provides that 

 until suitable laboratories, libraries and test- 



THE INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS ON 



TUBERCULOSIS 

 The program of the congress in session this 

 week in the new National Museum, Washing- 

 ton, is as follows : 



