November 15, 1912] 



SCIENCE 



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$291,598, compared with 365,Y02 fine ounces, 

 valued at $197,479, in 1910. Of the 1911 pro- 

 duction 497,281 ounces came from the copper 

 lodes of Michigan. The output of copper from 

 the central states in 1911 came from the states 

 of Michigan and Missouri and amounted to 

 220,480,513 pounds. Of this production 219,- 

 840,201 pounds came, from Michigan. The 

 mine production of lead in the central states 

 in 1911 was 188,669 short tons, which, rated 

 at the average New York price for the metal 

 for the year ($90 a ton), was valued at $16,- 

 980,210, compared with 171,226 short tons, 

 valued at $15,067,888, in 1910. Missouri pro- 

 duced 95 per cent, of the yield of the central 

 states and about 44 per cent, of the primary 

 lead recovered in the United States from do- 

 mestic ore. The production of zinc in the 

 central states in 1911, based on mine returns 

 with a deduction for separating and smelting 

 losses, was 172,698 short tons, valued at $19,- 

 687,572 ; the production for 1910 was 178,784 

 short tons, valued at $19,308,672. Missouri 

 was the largest producer of zinc in the United 

 States, although its production, 122,515 tons, 

 was slightly less than in 1910. 



UNIVMBSITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS 



Work has been begun at Harvard Univer- 

 sity on the three freshman dormitories which 

 are to stand near the bank of the Charles 

 Eiver, south of the main body' of university 

 buildings. It is understood that Mrs. Kussell 

 Sage is one of the large contributors to the 

 fund of $1,800,000 which is now nearly com- 

 pleted for these dormitories. 



Ground has been broken for the north wing 

 of the new electrical laboratory of the Shef- 

 field Scientific School. It will cost about 

 $115,000, of which $75,000 is a gift made by 

 A. C. Dunham, Tale, '54, of Hartford, Conn. 



The trustees of Wesleyan University have 

 voted to build an astronomical observatory at 

 a cost of $60,000. 



The Queen Wilhelmina chair in Dutch his- 

 tory, literature and language will be estab- 

 lished at Columbia University, supported 



jointly by the university and by funds raised 

 for the purpose in Holland. 



The first event in the opening of the Peter 

 Bent Brigham Hospital at the Harvard Med- 

 ical School was the opening of a class for 

 nurses in the ward building on October 31. 

 On the same date the hospital took over the 

 Harvard Clinic, which will be the first con- 

 tinuous clinic in Boston. Patients will be ad- 

 mitted to the hospital about the middle of 

 January. 



On October 23 the corner stone of the li- 

 brary and administration building for the 

 University of Utah was laid with appropri- 

 ate ceremonies. This building is to occupy 

 the central position at the head of the street 

 upon which the campus faces. The super- 

 structure will be of Sanpete oolite, and the 

 foundation of Temple granite from Little 

 Cottonwood Canyon. When completed it will 

 house the library, the administrative offices, 

 the art gallery, the archeological museum and 

 a spacious auditorium, as well as rest rooms 

 for men and women. The cost will be more 

 than $300,000. 



A RECENT analysis of the professional dis- 

 tribution of the graduates of Oberlin College 

 reveals the fact that teaching has been the 

 most prominent field of endeavor. The total 

 number of graduates of the academic depart- 

 ment, including men and women, is 3,385 

 (when the same person has taken more than 

 one degree he has been considered but once). 

 Of these, 1,244, or 36.8 per cent, have gone 

 into the profession of teaching. If the group 

 of unclassified is left out of consideration, 

 thus omitting many women with no profes- 

 sion, the proportion of graduates entering 

 teaching is even more striking, since one out 

 of every two has become a teacher. From a 

 total of 1,682 men graduating from the acad- 

 emic department, 392, or nearly 25 per cent., 

 were teachers. Of the women, 853 out of a 

 total of 954 classed in any profession have 

 taught. 



PftOFESSOR T. J. Headlee, head of the de- 

 partment of entomology and zoology in the 



