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Geological Survey, sent Geologist George H. 
Ashley into Fulton County to make an inves- 
tigation. He reports that undoubtedly these 
hills contain several million tons of low-grade 
red iron ore and may contain a small amount 
of high-grade brown ore and more low-grade 
brown ore. Mr. Ashley found that three drill 
holes have been sunk into a shallow, canoe- 
shaped basin of red shale forming the 
“Meadow Ground.” The basin is readily 
measured in length, breadth and depth. If all 
ore, it would hardly contain 30 million tons. 
The rocks are well exposed and show prac- 
tically no iron except the iron coloring the 
rocks. Lowrie’s Knob, if a solid hill of ore, 
would contain only about 100 million tons. 
The rocks here are likewise well exposed. A 
pocket of brown ore has been worked out on 
the east side by the old Hanover furnace, 
yielding about 75,000 tons of ore (46 per cent. 
iron). The “cove” fault runs through 
Lowrie’s Knob and Dickey’s Mountain, so 
that the rocks forming them stand on edge 
and locally are crumpled. Dickey’s Mountain 
contains some low-grade sandy iron ore on the 
west side, possibly five million tons, as the 
bed cuts off against the fault. A little brown 
ore, 14 inches by 2 feet thick (88 per cent. 
iron), was dug for the Hanover furnace, but 
abandoned as impossible. The black shales of 
the Devonian are present in the region, but 
no suggestion of carbonate ore was seen. 
A U.S. WeatHer Bureau station has been 
installed at the University of Notre Dame, 
Notre Dame, Ind., by Mr. J. H. Armington, 
of the Chicago Station. Among the instru- 
ments located in the Science Hall, there is a 
triple register for wind velocity, wind direc- 
tion, rainfall or sunshine as received on the 
roof by the anemometer, wind vane, tipping 
bucket rain gauge or sunshine recorder re- 
spectively. There are also two mercurial 
barometers and their barograph as well as 
complete equipment in the way of tables, 
record-books, report-books, ete., a few dupli- 
cate instruments and a snow gauge. There 
are on the roof, in a sheltered tower, wet and 
dry bulb, and maximum and minimum tem- 
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perature thermometers with their thermo- 
graph. Professor Thomas A. Irvin, Ph.D., of 
the department of physics, has charge of this 
station which, in conjunction with the uni- 
versity observatory, posts on the Science Hall 
Bulletin complete daily reports of meteorolog- 
ical and astronomical observations. 
Sir Witi1am Hartey has presented to the 
University of Liverpool a wireless installation 
designed mainly with a view to experimental 
and research work of an advanced nature. 
For transmitting purposes a short aerial about 
100 feet above ground has been erected on the 
roof of the electrical laboratory, and in con- 
nection with this a standard Marconi receiver 
has been arranged such as is used on board 
ship, and this combination forms a small 
standard power station. This has been li- 
censed by the post office, and time and meteor- 
ological messages are received twice daily 
from the Eiffel Tower in Paris. The trans- 
mission range is only about 40 or 50 miles, 
save under very favorable conditions, as the 
post office regulations limit the amount of 
power that can be sent out of a station to 
one third horse-power. Professor Marchant, 
of the electrical engineering laboratories, is at 
present engaged in testing detectors, but later 
in the year he proposes to hold wireless classes 
for ships’ captains and others interested. 
UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS 
Mr. Water Morrison, of Baliol College, 
has given $10,000 to Oxford University as the 
nucleus of a pension fund for professors. 
J. CarLeton Brtyt, Ph.D. (Harvard), man- 
aging editor of the Journal of Educational 
Psychology, and director of the psychological 
laboratory in the Brooklyn Training School 
for Teachers, has been appointed professor of 
the art of teaching in the University of 
Texas. Dr. Bell will devote his attention 
chiefly to the experimental investigation of 
problems of teaching. 
Ty the College of Medicine of the Univer- 
sity of Virginia, as we learn from the Journal 
of the American Medical Association, Dr. 
Jacob Michaux, one of the original members 
