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mental stations for the establishing of which 

 the sum of $75,000 was appropriated by the 

 last Congress. The two other stations have 

 been located at Minneapolis, Minn., for the 

 study of iron and manganese problems, and at 

 Columbus, Ohio, for research connected with 

 the ceramic and clayworking industries. The 

 selection of Bartlesville was due to its loca- 

 tion in the heart of the great mid-continent 

 oil and gas field. The selection was influenced 

 also by the offer of a free site and by the 

 raising of $50,000 by the citizens of the town. 

 This sum of money will be applied to the 

 building of offices and laboratories and the 

 purchase of engineering and chemical equip- 

 ment. The technical staff of the new experi- 

 mental station will study various problems 

 having practical commercial application to the 

 petroleum and natural gas industries, includ- 

 ing questions of production, transportation, 

 storage and refining of petroleum and various 

 problems connected with the technology of 

 natural gas. One of the greatest needs of the 

 petroleum industry has been the coordination 

 of scientific research with the practical side of 

 the industry, for compared with other mineral 

 industries it has been singularly backward in 

 this respect. The station is aimed to act an 

 intermediary between the facts evolved by sci- 

 entific investigations and the needs of the oil 

 industries. That is, men will be employed 

 who will be able to gather scientific data and 

 find out how they may be applied to the prac- 

 tical needs of the industry. 



Jacob T. Bowne, librarian of the Young 

 Men's Christian Association College, has given 

 his anthropological collection to the Spring- 

 field Museum of Natural History. The col- 

 lection consists of some thousands of objects 

 with complete catalogue giving the history of 

 each object and the conditions under which it 

 was found, with many bibliographical refer- 

 ences to further sources of information. Mr. 

 Bowne has spent fifty years in the study of 

 primitive man, laying special emphasis upon 

 the E"orth American Indian, and the greater 

 part of the collection is made up of relics of 

 the Indians of the Connecticut Valley within 

 twenty miles of Springfield. The specimens 



of Indian handiwork in stone, bone, shell and 

 pottery were gathered from sites of ancient 

 camps and burial places in this immediate 

 vicinity. In addition to the objects. Mr. 

 Bowne's gift includes several hundred books 

 on anthropology, some of them very rare, to- 

 gether with archeological cabinets, manu- 

 scripts, maps and diagrams. The collection 

 will remain in Mr. Bowne's keeping for the 

 present. In accepting the collection for the 

 museum, the directors passed the following 

 resolution : 



Sesolved, That the directors extend to Mr. Jacob 

 T. Bowne the hearty and appreciative thanks of the 

 City Library Association for the gift of his ex- 

 tensive and finely organized anthropological collec- 

 tion, which is the result of many years of assiduous 

 and discriminating study. The collection, relating 

 especially to the North American Indian type and 

 more particularly to the Indian of the Connecticut 

 valley within 20 miles of Springfield, including tha 

 remains of aboriginal handiwork in stone, bone, 

 shell and pottery, gathered from the sites of an- 

 cient camps and burial places in this immediate 

 vicinity, forms a most desirable accession for the 

 museuiQ of natural history. The citizens of Spring- 

 field are deeply indebted to Mr. Bowne for his 

 generosity in making this public gift. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL 

 NEWS 



The Carnegie Corporation has presented 

 McGill University with $1,000,000 in recogni- 

 tion of the institution's " devoted service and 

 sacrifice towards Canada's part in the war." 



In the State University of Iowa this year, 

 not a single imdergraduate in the College of 

 Liberal Arts qualified for the Sigma 5i. Al- 

 though students are taking their studies more 

 seriously than in former years the records 

 show that the ablest students have been 

 dravm into war service. 



Dr. Eussell A. Hibbs, of the University of 

 Louisville, has been appointed professor of 

 orthopedic surgery in the college of physicians 

 and surgeons of Columbia University. Dr. 

 Eugene W. Caldwell, of Bellevue Hospital 

 Medical College, has been appointed to the 

 newly established chair of roentgenology. Dr. 

 Vera Danschakoff, formerly of Moscow, has 

 been promoted to be assistant professor of 



