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the cantonment at stated intervals and with 

 army sm-geons conduct thorough mental tests 

 and physical examinations. The new psycho- 

 pathic building at the Spring Grove State 

 Hospital, designed for acute cases of mental 

 disease, has been offered to the government, 

 and if it is accepted, patients from Camp 

 Admiral will be treated there. The psycho- 

 pathic building will also be useful in treat- 

 ing soldiers retiu-ned from the front, 18 to 20 

 per cent, of whom, it has been found in Eng- 

 land, are suffering from mental breakdown, 

 temporary or permanent. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL 

 NEWS 



Austin C. Dunham, of Hartford, has offered 

 as a gift to the Connecticut Agricultural Col- 

 lege at Storrs, his Newington farm, which he 

 has made into one of the best equipped farms 

 in the state. Mr. Dunham has spent about 

 $50,000 in improving the property and offers 

 it to the college simply on the condition that 

 it be used for school purposes. The farm con- 

 sists of 130 acres and has at present forty head 

 of cows and heifers and sixty-five pigs. Four 

 silos have been built, housing 150 tons of 

 silage, and eighty tons of hay have been 

 gathered. 



According to a decision handed down by the 

 Supreme Court of •Connecticut, Tale Univer- 

 sity must pay to the state inheritance taxes 

 amounting to about $34,000. The university 

 inherited about $750,000 from the estate of 

 Justus B. Hotchkiss. The Probate Court de- 

 cided that it was not liable to taxation on the 

 ground that Yale, being exempted by law from 

 paying taxes on property in this city, was 

 thereby constituted a public institution re- 

 ceiving state aid. 



Two members of the faculty of Cornell Uni- 

 versity who retired this year have been elected 

 to emeritus professorships. They are George 

 S. Moler, emeritus professor of physics, and 

 E. C. Carpenter, emeritus professor of ex- 

 perimental engineering. 



Dr. Victor C. Alderson, consulting engi- 

 neer of Boston, has been tendered the presi- 



dency of the Colorado School of Mines at 

 Golden, Colo. Dr. Alderson served as presi- 

 dent of the school for four years, retiring 

 three years ago. He has not yet indicated 

 whether he will accept. 



Promotions in the faculty of the ISTew York 

 State College of Agriculture have been made 

 as follows: Assistant professors promoted to 

 the grade of professors: J. R. Schramm, bot- 

 any ; E. H. Wheeler, extension teaching ; H. O. 

 Buekman, soil technology. 



Professor V. Ascoli, of the chair of med- 

 ical pathology of the University of Pavia, has 

 been appointed professor of clinical medicine 

 at Eome to succeed Bacelli. 



DISCUSSION AND CORRESPONDENCE 



climatic index of BONNEVILLE 

 LAKE BEDS 



Because of the fact that they have been 

 thought to furnish undoubtable stratigraphic 

 testimony in support of the conception of the 

 duality of the Glacial Epoch the lacustral 

 deposits of the Great Salt Lake basin of Utah 

 hold at this time an especial interest. Where 

 best exposed these beds occupy a vertical space 

 of about 100 feet; but their total thickness is 

 without question considerably greater than this 

 figure. The main body of the formation com- 

 prises fine laminated calcareous materials, of 

 uniform texture and yellow color. An upper 

 section, of irregular thickness, from 2 to 20 

 feet, is notably limy, white and more or less 

 indurated in certain layers. The white marly 

 upper capping is sharply separated from the 

 yellow lower beds by an irregular line of junc- 

 ture which has every appiearance of being a 

 marked plane of unconformity. 



The common historical interpretation of 

 the general section is briefly this: The lower 

 yellow beds are regarded as representing river 

 silts deposited in the lake over a very long 

 period of time when the early Bonneville 

 water-level was nearly as high as the later 

 Bonneville shore-line. The white marly beds 

 are depositions of a shorter high-water stage 

 of the lake. The irregular line between the 

 white and yellow sections are viewed in the 



