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year of travel and study in. the Hawaiian 

 Islands, Japan, Korea and China. He spoke at 

 the government colleges for teachers in Peking, 

 and at other schools in China. The report of 

 his work, which is the most detailed study made 

 to date, of the valley of the Min river in the 

 borderland of Thibet, some 300 miles beyond 

 Cheng Tu, will be published by the government 

 geological survey of China. Mr. Hubbard is 

 also preparing papers on the copper mines near 

 Cheng Tu worked by the Chinese, on the anti- 

 mony mines at Kwang Tung, near Canton, on 

 the physiographic history of the Yang Tse 

 river, and on the geography of some of the 

 Chinese rivers. The copper mines at Asieo, 

 Japan, will be the subject of a paper. Mr. Hub- 

 bard is planning two books based on the year's 

 study; a book on the development of the min- 

 eral resources of China, and a book on the 

 geography of China for use in Chinese schools. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL 

 NEWS 



Dean Henry P. Talbot, of the department 

 of chemistry of the Massachusetts Institute 

 of Technology, and Dr. William H. Nichols, 

 of New York, made addresses at the dedica- 

 tion of the new Steele Chemistry Building 

 at Dartmouth College, on October 29. 



Professor Arthur M. Greene, Jr., head 

 of the mechanical engineering department at 

 Eensselear Polytechnic Institute, at Troy, 

 N. Y., has been appointed dean of the School 

 of Engineering of Princeton University. 



Professor A. V. Miller, associate profes- 

 sor of drawing and descriptive geometry, has 

 been appointed assistant dean of the college 

 of engineering of the University of Wiscon- 

 sin to take the place of Professor J. D. Phil- 

 lips who is now acting business manager of 

 the university. 



At the Detroit College of Medicine and 

 Surgery Dr. Donald Beaver, formerly of the 

 pathologic department of the University of 

 Minnesota has been appointed assistant pro- 

 fessor of pathology. Dr. Paul Wooley, former 

 professor of pathology in the University of 

 Cincinnati, associate professor of pathology 



and pathologist to the Herman Keiffer Hos- 

 pital, Detroit. 



Dr. Sergius Morgulis has been appointed 

 professor of bio-chemistry and Dr. George 

 A. Talbert assistant professor of physiology 

 in the College of Medicine, University of 

 Nebraska, Omaha. 



Dr. M. J. Dorsey, for ten years in charge 

 of the section of fruit breeding of the depart- 

 ment of horticulture of the University of 

 Minnesota, has been elected head of the 

 department of horticulture of the West Vir- 

 ginia University and the West Virginia Agri- 

 cultural Experiment Station, to succeed Pro- 

 fessor J. H. Gourley. 



Henry Schjiitz and C. Edward Behre, of 

 the school of forestry. University of Idaho, 

 have been advanced, respectively, to the rank 

 of associate professors of forest products and 

 of lumbering. 



DISCUSSION AND CORRESPONDENCE 



AERIAL OBSERVATION OF PHYSIOGRAPHIC 

 FEATURES 



The article on " Aerial observation of 

 earthquake rifts " published by Professor 

 Bailey Willis in Science for September 23, 

 1921, prompts me to add a word to his inter- 

 esting discussion. During the war I had oc- 

 casion to make a short aeroplane flight over 

 the harbor of Valona for the purpose of 

 studying the natural topographic defenses of 

 that strategic key to the southern Adriatic 

 Sea. The ascent was made in the late after- 

 noon, when strong shadows brought out most 

 distinctly the relief of the terrain. It was to 

 me a matter of some surprise to find that 

 physiographic features which were so poorly 

 represented on the inadequate maps of the 

 region as scarcely to betray their presence, 

 or at least their true character, appeared with 

 surprising distinctness when seen from the 

 plane. In particular, certain abandoned 

 shorelines, now left some distance inland by 

 the prograding of the shore, and which I had 

 failed to observe in brief excursions by auto- 

 mobile about the harbor, suddenly stood out 

 with all the clearness of a diagram. The es- 



