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on 7,000 applications for oil and gas prospect- 

 ing permits, on 249 applications for coal pros- 

 pecting permits, on 78 applications for coal 

 leases and 7,500 applications under the min- 

 eral-leasing laws. It also conducted an engi- 

 neering investigation and prepared an ex- 

 haustive report on a proposed "superpower 

 system" — a comprehensive system for the gen- 

 eration and distribution of electricity for the 

 operation of railroads and manufacturing 

 industries in the region between Boston and 

 Washington. Special publications of the year 

 were "Guides to desert watering places in 

 Arizona and California," and a large relief 

 map of the United States. Other published 

 reports numbered 132, containing more than 

 10,000 pages, and 60 new topographic maps 

 were engraved and printed. The Survey dis- 

 tributed 631,000 books and 740,000 maps, of 

 which latter 550,000 were sold. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL 

 NOTES 



A MOVEMENT has been started to raise a 

 fund of $2,000,000 to establish a medical school 

 as a memorial to Major General William C. 

 Gorgas. The present plan is that the fund 

 be contributed by the nation and that the 

 school be situated in Tuscaloosa, Ala., where 

 General Gorgas lived as a boy. Dr. Seale Har- 

 ris, of Birmingham, Ala., is chairman of the 

 national committee. 



Fire of unknown origin has almost com- 

 pletely destroyed the chemical building of the 

 Colorado State Agricultural College at Fort 

 Collins, Colo. The loss on buildings and equip- 

 ment is estimated at $70,000. 



The board of curators of the University of 

 Missouri has elected Dr. John Carleton Jones, 

 president of the university to succeed Dr. A. 

 Ross Hill who resigned several months ago to 

 become connected with the American Red 

 Cross. Dr. Jones has been vice president of 

 the university since 1918 and dean of the col- 

 lege of arts and sciences. 



John H. Mofpett has been appointed asso- 

 ciate professor of metallui'gy in the Univer- 

 sity of Minnesota. 



R. S. Lowe, of the nitrate division. Ordnance 

 Department, U. S. A., has been appointed 

 dean of the department of chemical engineer- 

 ing. University of Cincinnati. 



Reverend Db. Charles Wesley Flint, 

 president of Cornell College at Mount Ver- 

 non, Iowa, has been elected chancellor of Syra- 

 cuse University in succession to Dr. James 

 Roscoe Day. 



Dr. Walter F. Tittman, formerly of the 

 Bureau of Mines and later engaged in con- 

 sulting practice at Pittsburgh, Pa., has been 

 appointed head of the department of com- 

 mercial engineering, Carnegie Institution of 

 Technology. 



Dr. Harold Diehl has been appointed head 

 of the health service of the University of 

 Minnesota, Minneapolis, to succeed Dr. John 

 Sundwall. 



DISCUSSION AND CORRESPOND- 

 ENCE 

 COMMITTEE FOR THE PROTECTION OF 

 ANIMAL EXPERIMENTATION 



Some weeks ago it suddenly became apparent 

 that the activities of the various antivivisec- 

 tion societies had finally reached a strength 

 where they were able to menace effectively the 

 health of the community. On a referendum 

 vote in California they threatened all animal 

 experimentation last year, and it was only with 

 some difficulty that the measure was defeated. 

 The Interstate Convention of Antivivisection 

 Societies was held in Boston last month and 

 at that time a committee was organized to 

 undertake a campaign of sane, humane educa- 

 tion to combat the propaganda of those who 

 seek to prevent the making of vaccines and 

 antitoxins, the testing of all such drugs as 

 ergot and a general interference with medical 

 methods of proved efficacy for the diagnosis, 

 the prevention and cure of disease. 



A committee of the Boston Society of 

 Natural History was first appointed of which 

 T. Barbour was chairman, to arrange for Mi'. 

 Ernest Harold Baynes to deliver two lectures, 

 one upon a "Nature Study" subject, the other 



