JuLy 26, 1918] 
Though oil was known to exist in the Big 
Horn Basin as early as 1888 and sporadic at- 
tempts have from time to time since been made 
to discover it in large quantities, the produc- 
tion of oil in this region may be said to have 
begun in 1906, when wells were drilled in the 
Byron field. Wells were afterwards drilled in 
several other parts of the basin, and though 
small quantities of oil and gas have been dis- 
covered in fourteen fields, the region is well 
known largely because of the production since 
1914 from the Grass Creek, Elk Basin, Grey- 
bull and Torchlight fields. From 1914 to 
1916 the production of oil in Wyoming rose 
from 3,560,375 to 6,234,187 barrels, and a con- 
siderable part of this increase has been de- 
rived from the fields just named. The report 
describes fifty anticlines and domes, twenty- 
seven of which have been tested by drilling. 
Four of these contain very productive oil and 
gas fields, and seven contain fields that are less 
productive and less promising. The anticlines 
lie in a broad belt around the border of the 
Big Horn Basin, and the authors of the re- 
port conclude that those which are nearest the 
central trough of the basin offer the greatest 
prospect for successful drilling. In fact, none 
of the explored anticlines that are separated 
from the central trough by other anticlines 
have yet yielded more than traces of oil and 
gas. As nine anticlines adjacent to the cen- 
tral trough remain untested there is a good 
prospect that other productive fields may yet 
be discovered. The report was prepared by D. 
F. Hewett and C. T. Lupton. 
UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL 
NEWS 
By the will of Elmer P. Howe, of Marble- 
head, Mass., after private bequests amounting 
to between $35,000 and $40,000 are provided 
for, the residue of the estate is to be divided 
equally between Yale University and the Wor- 
cester Polytechnic Institute for general use. 
For the purposes of the probate bond the es- 
tate is estimated at $30,000 real and $400,000 
personal property. 
Dr. Cuartes A. TuTTLe has presented to 
Yale University his home and offices, a large 
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brick building on York ‘Street, adjacent to 
Wrexham Hall. 
Accorpixe to the Journal of the American 
Medical Association the number of students 
enrolled in the medical department of the 
University of Buenos Aires is over 5,000. In 
1917, there were 4,078 enrolled, distributed as 
follows: medicine, 3,051; pharmacy, 317; doc- 
tor in pharmacy, 88; odontology, 428, and ob- 
stetrics, 194. Including the departments of 
law, engineering, philosophy and literature, 
agronomy and veterinary science, there are a 
total of 9,521 matriculated students. There 
are 984 students inscribed in the medical de- 
partment of the other university in the coun- 
try, the University of Cordoba. 
Duriwe the absence of President Harry 
Pratt Judson, of the University of Chicago, as 
head of the American Commission for Relief 
in Persia, the dean of the faculties, Professor 
James R. Angell, head of the department of 
psychology, has been designated by the board 
of trustees as vice-president of the university. 
Frank L. De Beuxewaer, professor of chem- 
istry at Washburn College, Topeka, Kansas, 
has been appointed to an instructorship in the 
department of chemistry at the University of 
Chicago. 
Dr. Cyrus H. Fiske, who has held the posi- 
tion of assistant professor of biological chem- 
istry at Western Reserve University, Cleve- 
land, will join the Harvard medical staff with 
the same title. 
DISCUSSION AND CORRESPONDENCE 
THE SUPPLY OF ORGANIC REAGENTS 
To THE Eprtor or Science: In order to pro- 
vide for the supply of organic reagents for 
research and industrial purposes the Eastman 
Kodak Company has determined to commence 
their preparation in its research laboratory. 
This decision was arrived at partly as a 
result of the letters of Dr. Roger Adams and 
Professor Gortner which drew our attention 
to the need for an adequate supply of these 
materials produced by a firm of standing. 
1 ScreNcE, March 8, 1918, p. 226 and June 14, 
1918, p. 590. 
