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and reproduced and published by the geograph- 

 ical section of the general staff; eighteen 

 sheets have been compiled and are in process 

 of reproduction, while seventeen others are in 

 a more or less advanced state of preparation. 

 The scope of the map has been extended north- 

 ward to the North Cape and the new Russian 

 port of Alexandrovsk, eastward to Baghdad 

 and the Caspian, and southward to Cairo and 

 the head of the Persian Gulf. 



The fifth Brazilian Geographical Congress 

 will, as we learn from Nature, be held at 

 Bahia on September 7-16. There will be 

 twelve sections, devoted respectively to the fol- 

 lowing subjects : Mathematical Geography 

 (astronomical geography, topography, geod- 

 esy) ; Physical Geography (aerology, oceanog- 

 raphy, geomorphology) ; Physical Geography 

 (hydrography, potamology, limnology) ; Vul- 

 canology and Seismology; Climatology and 

 Medical Geography; Biogeography (phyto- 

 geography and zoogeography) ; Human Geog- 

 raphy; Political and Social Geography; Eco- 

 nomic and Commercial Geography, including 

 Agricultural Geography; Military and Histor- 

 ical Geography ; Teaching of Geography, Eules 

 and Nomenclature ; Regional Monographs. 



Among the forthcoming publications an- 

 nounced by the University of Chicago Press 

 are the following : 



The Control of Hunger in Health and Disease, by- 

 Anton J. Carlson. 

 Finite Collineation Groups (The University of 



Chicago Science Series), by Hans F. Blichfeldt. 

 Parallaxes of 27 Stars, by Frederick Slocum and 



Alfred Mitchell. 

 Second-year Mathematics for Secondary Schools, 



by Ernst R. Breslich. 

 Agricultural Economics, by Edwin G. Nourse. 

 The Psychology of Eeligion, by George A. Coe. 

 Truancy and Non-attendance in Chicago, by 



Sophinisba P. Breckinridge and Edith Abbott. 

 The Electron (The University of Chicago Science 



Series), by Robert Andrews Millikan. 

 Quarter-centennial Bibliography of Faculties, by a 



Committee of the Faculty of the University of 



Chicago. 



That 1915 was the most successful year of 



production in the history of the petroleum in- 



■ dustry is shown by statistics just compiled 



under the supervision of J. D. Northrop, of 

 the U. S. Geological Survey, Department of 

 the Interior. The total quantity of crude 

 petroleum entering the world's markets in 

 1915, which amounted to 426,892,673 barrels, 

 exceeds the former record, established in 1914, 

 by 28,194,307 barrels, or 7 per cent. The bulk 

 of the increase in 1915 came from the United 

 States and Mexico, though Russia, Argentina 

 and Japan recorded significant gains. The 

 distribution of this production is shown in 

 the following table : 



Barrels of 42 Per Cent, of 



Country Gallons Total 



United States 281,104,104 65.85 



Russia 68,548,062 16.06 



Mexico 32,910,508 7.71 



Dutch East Indies . . 12,386,808 2.90 



Roumania 12,029,913 2.82 



India 7,400,000 1.73 



Galieia 4,158,899 .98 



Japan and Formosa. . 3,118,464 .73 



Peru 2,487,251 .58 



Germany 995,764 .23 



Trinidad 750,000 .18 



Argentina 516,120 .12 



Egypt 221,768 .05 



Canada 215,464 .05 



Italy 39,548] 



Other 10,000 J" ^ 



426^8927673 100.00 



The twenty-seventh annual conference of 

 the Museums Association was held in Ips- 

 wich on July 10-12, when, as we learn from 

 Nature, the following institutions were repre- 

 sented by delegates: (1) Pive national mu- 

 seums — the British Museum, the British Mu- 

 seum (Natural History), the Victoria and 

 Albert Museum, the National Museum of 

 Wales, and the Museums of the Royal Botanic 

 Gardens at Kew; (2) two London museums — 

 the Horniman Museum and the Wellcome 

 Historical Medical Museum; (3) the following 

 twenty-five provincial museums and art gal- 

 leries — Brighton, Bristol, Carlisle, Chelms- 

 ford, Derby, Dundee, Exeter, Halifax, Hast- 

 ings, Hull, Ipswich, Leicester, Lincoln, Liver- 

 pool, Merthyr Tydfil, Newbury, Norwich, 

 Perth, Peterborough, Plymouth, Reading, Sal- 

 ford, Warrington, Worcester and Worthing; 

 and (4) the Museum of the University of Man- 

 chester. After a welcome by the mayor 

 of Ipswich, the president, Mr. E. Rimbault 



