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Cochetopa national forests in Colorado, Presi- 

 dent Roosevelt has made them a reservation 

 under the act for the preservation of American 

 antiquities. The district will be known as the 

 Wheeler National Monument. 



At the invitation of Mr. George Otis Smith 

 an informal conference was held at the Cosmos 

 Club, Washington, D. C, on January 2, 1909, 

 for the purpose of discussing the progress of 

 geologic work and with a view to bringing 

 about a better coordination of the various in- 

 vestigations now being carried on. Professor 

 T. C. Chamberlin presided at the meeting and 

 of those invited to attend there were present: 

 F. D. Adams, H. Foster Bain, Joseph Barrell, 

 E. W. Brock, A. H. Brooks, Samuel Calvin, 

 M. R. Campbell, T. C. Chamberlin, W. B. 

 Clark, J. M. Clarke, Whitman Cross, H. P. 

 Cushing, Arthur L. Day, B. K. Emerson, S. 

 P. Emmons, N. M. Penneman, H. E. Gregory, 

 Arnold Hague, C. Willard Hayes, J. P. Id- 

 dings, Arthur Keith, H. B. Kummel, A. C. 

 Lane, Waldemar Lindgren, A. P. Low, W. C. 

 Mendenhall, H. P. Osborn, T. W. Stanton, 



C. R. Van Hise, A. C. Veatch, David White, 

 H. S. Williams, Bailey Willis. 



The Sheffield lectures at Yale University 

 will be given this year, with two exceptions, 

 by members of the scientific school faculty. 

 The lectures will be illustrated and will be 

 delivered on Friday evenings as follows: 



January 15 — " Growth of the North American 

 Continent during Geologic Times," by Professor 

 Charles Schuchert. 



January 22 — " The American Gem Stones," by 

 Professor William E. Ford, '99 S. 



January 29 — " Paper Making from Wood," by 

 Dr. Arthur L. Dean, '02 Ph.D. 



February 5 — " Dinosaurs : their Evolution and 

 Distribution," by Professor Richard S. Lull. 



February 12 — " The Modern Steel Bridge," by 

 Professor John C. Tracy, '90 S. 



February 19 — "The Safety Devices of the Hu- 

 man Body," by Professor Lafayette B. Mendel, '91. 



February 26 — " Influence of Geology on the His- 

 tory of Jamaica," by Dr. Rossiter W. Raymond. 



March 5 — " Recent Discoveries in Electricity 

 and some of their Consequences," by Professor 

 Lynde P. Wheeler, '94 S. 



March 12 — " The Iron Resources of the United 

 States: their Past and Future," by Professor John 



D. Irving. 



March 19 — "Land Reclamation in the United 

 States: the Problems, the Opportunity," by Dr. 

 George T. Surface. 



A STATEMENT regarding the anthracite in- 

 dustry of Pennsylvania has been prepared by 

 Wm. W. Ruley, chief of the Bureau of Anthra- 

 cite Coal Statistics, of Philadelphia. Mr. 

 Ruley estimates that the shipments of anthra- 

 cite for 1908 were 64,237,076 long tons, against 

 67,109,393 long tons in 1907, indicating a de- 

 crease of 2,872,317 long tons, or 4.28 per cent. 

 If the quantity of coal sold to the local trade 

 and used at the mines decreased in the same 

 proportion, the total production in 1908 

 amounted to approximately 73,200,000 long 

 tons, as against 76,432,421 long tons in 1907. 

 Reports received by Edward W. Parker, sta- 

 tistician, of the United States Geological Sur- 

 vey, from state officials and others closely in 

 touch with the coal-mining industry in the 

 several states indicate that the output of the 

 bituminous coal mines of the country in 1908 

 was between 320,000,000 and 330,000,000 short 

 tons. If the final returns are found to agree 

 closely with these preliminary figures they will 

 indicate a decrease in production of 15 to 20 

 per cent, as compared with the production in 

 1907. 



The Third Congress on School Hygiene 

 will be held in Paris from March 29 to April 

 2, 1909. There will be an exhibition in con- 

 nection with the congress. The congress 

 held its first meeting at Nuremberg in 1904, 

 and its second in London in 1907. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS 

 Gifts to the amount of $346,466.05 were an- 

 nounced at the recent meeting of the trustees 

 of Princeton University, of which the largest, 

 $200,000, was that of Messrs. David B. Jones 

 and Thomas D. Jones, of Chicago, for the 

 Palmer Physical Laboratory endowment fund. 

 Other gifts were $25,370 from the committee 

 of fifty and $34,377.07 from the General Edu- 

 cation Board. 



More than $40,000 has been subscribed 

 towards a fund of $100,000 to endow a chair 

 of physiology at the University of Cincinnati, 

 in honor of the late Joseph Eichberg. 



