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tion of the volatile matter in coke at various 

 temperatures. (6) Utilization of Coal; (a) 

 study of the economic utilization of the ix)of 

 coal of the Pittsburgh seam, including struc- 

 ture, composition, coking properties, and by- 

 product yields. (7) Coal Mining: (a) deter- 

 mining the compressive strength of coal from 

 various beds. 



All the time of the research fellow is to be 

 devoted to work in the Experimental Station 

 of the U. S. Bureau of Mines which is located 

 adjacent to Carnegie Institute of Technology. 

 The position of teaching fellow includes ten 

 hours each week devoted to teaching work in 

 mining, and the balance to work in the Experi- 

 mental Station. 



EXCHANGE PROFESSOR TO FRANCE IN 

 ENGINEERING AND APPUED SCIENCE 

 Dean John Ehazee, of the Towne Scientific 

 School of the University of Pennsylvania and 

 professor of chemistry, has been chosen as ex- 

 change professor to France for the coming 

 academic year, by the committee on exchange 

 with France of professors of engineering and 

 applied science, representing Harvard, Yale, 

 Columbia, Cornell, Massachusetts Institute of 

 Technology, the Johns Hopkins and the Uni- 

 versity of Pennsylvania. 



The movement for the annual exchange with 

 France of a professor of applied science had 

 its origin as the result of a letter written 

 shortly before his death by the late President 

 Richard Maclaurin, of the Massachusetts Insti- 

 tute of Technology. The French administra- 

 tion responded very cordially to the offer for 

 the annual exchange of a professor and select- 

 ed for their first representative Professor 

 Jacques Cavalier, rector of the University of 

 Toulouse, and a well-known authority on metal- 

 lurgical chemistry, who divided his time during 

 the current academic year among the seven 

 cooperating institutions, namely, Columbia, 

 Cornell, Harvard, Johns Hopkins, Massachu- 

 setts Institute of Technology, Pennsylvania 

 and Yale. 



The American universities selected as their 

 first outgoing representative for tlie first year 

 Dr. Arthur E. Kennelly, professor of elec- 

 trical engineering at Harvard Universitv and 



the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He 

 has met with great success in his undertaking in 

 France, and in addition to lecturing before 

 numerous French technical schools was assigned 

 by the French educational authorities, through 

 M. Petit Dutaillis, minister of public instruc- 

 tion in France, to spend several weeks at the 

 Universities of Paris, Grenoble, Lj'ohs, Mar- 

 seilles, Toulouse, Bordeaux, Nancy and Lille, 

 giving in each a course of lectures, some tech- 

 nical and others of a more general character. 



Dean Frazer in the course of his work of 

 lecturing in French before the various univer- 

 sities and scientific societies of France, will 

 have favorable opportunities of studying at 

 close range French educational methods, espe- 

 cially as applied to science. 



Dr. Frazer represents the fourth generation 

 to be graduated from the University of Penn- 

 sylvania, and the third generation to be con- 

 nected with its faculties. His grandfather, 

 John Fries Frazer, from 1844 till his death in 

 1872, was professor of natui'al philosophy 

 and chemistry in the University of Pennsyl- 

 vania and vice-provost from 1855 to 1862. He 

 was one of the incorporators of the National 

 Academy of Sciences in 1863. His father. Dr. 

 Persifor Frazer, became professor of chemistry 

 in 1872, which chair he held until his appoint- 

 ment to the Second Geological Survey of Penn- 

 sylvania. He died in 1909. Dr. John Frazer 

 was born in Paris, France, on February 5, 1882. 

 In 1904 he was appointed instructor in chemis- 

 try, being later promoted to assistant professor- 

 ship and subsequently to a professorship. In 

 1912, upon the reorganization of the old col- 

 lege, he became dean of the Towne Scientific 

 School, which position he has held since, except 

 while on leave of absence when in the service 

 in 1918. 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 



Sir Auckland Geddes was given the hon- 

 orary degree of doctor of laws by the Univer- 

 sity of California at the recent Charter Day 

 exercises celebrating the fifty-fourth anniver- 

 sary of the university. The British ambassador 

 was the main speaker on Charter Day, the 

 subject of his address being 'Some of the effects 



