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tion, Whitehall, London, S.W.L., and the 

 words " Prisoners of War " written in the 

 left-hand top corner. 



The Eugenics Research Association will 

 hold its next annual meeting on June 22 and 

 23, in conjunction with the annual conference 

 of field workers of the Eugenics Record Office. 

 The sessions of Friday will be held at Cold 

 Spring Harbor and that of Saturday morning 

 at the rooms of the Brooklyn Institute of Arts 

 and Sciences. 



A NEW volume, the seventh, of the exhaus- 

 tive report on the extensive and valuable phos- 

 phate deposits of the Russian Empire, was 

 issued last year. This gives the results of in- 

 vestigations carried on during 1914; since the 

 outbreak of the war the activity in this field 

 has, of course, been almost exclusively pro- 

 ductive. A general resume of the results is 

 given in Russian by the editor. Professor J. 

 Samojloff, in a short prefatory section of 25 

 pages. This is succeeded by the special re- 

 ports (in Russian) concerning the following 

 localities : the Sisola and Lusa rivers in the 

 Ustsysolsk district, government of Vologda, 

 by V. G. Chimenkoff (pp. 1-32) ; the Aktju- 

 binsk district by D. N. Sokoloff (pp. 33-60) ; 

 the Dmitrovsk district, government of Orloff, 

 by G. S. Burenin (pp. 61-124) ; the basin of 

 the upper Kama in the Slobodsk district, gov- 

 ernment of Vjatka, by V. G. Chimenkoff (pp. 

 125-208) ; the Roslavl district, government of 

 Smolensk, by A. P. IvanofP (pp. 209-244); 

 the region of the middle course of the river 

 Zna, government of Tamboif, by A. S. Dobroff 

 (pp. 245-312) ; the Pavlograd district, govern- 

 ment of Ekaterinoslav, and the Isum district, 

 government of Charkoil, by G. F. Mirtchink 

 (pp. 313-327) ; the environs of Lake Indersk, 

 Lbitchensk district, government of Uralsk, by 

 A. IST. Zamatin (pp. 327-332) ; the north part of 

 the Temir district, government of Uralsk, by 

 A. N. Zamatin and P. M. Vasiljeuskij (pp. 

 333-372) ; the northwest part of the govern- 

 ment of Kursk, by A. N. and B. 'N. Semichatoff 

 (pp. 373^56) ; the region of the lower course 

 of the river Amudarja, by A. D. Archangelskij 

 and B. N". Semichatoff (pp. 457-518); the 



Mosalsk, Metchovsk and Jisdra districts, gov- 

 ernment of Kaluga, by A. P. Ivanoff (pp. 

 519-546). The book concludes with "Con- 

 tributions to the Mineralogy of Phosphates," 

 by J. V. Samojloff. 



The heirs of the late R. J. Lechmere Guppy, 

 of the island of Trinidad, who died August 5, 

 1916, are offering for sale his large collection 

 of shells and his extensive library, gathered 

 during a period of more than fifty years' resi- 

 dence in Trinidad. A detailed manuscript 

 catalogue has been submitted to the Smith- 

 sonian Institution with the request that it be 

 open to inspection. 



EDUCATIONAL NOTES AND NEWS 



On June 2, Governor Ferguson vetoed the 

 entire biannual appropriation for the mainte- 

 nance of the main University of Texas at Aus- 

 tin and the medical department at Galveston. 

 The amount involved is about two millions. 

 The governor took this action after he had 

 failed to force the board of regents to dismiss 

 without proper cause the president of the uni- 

 versity and several other members of the fac- 

 ulty. Unless some other means of support can 

 be found, this action will force the University 

 of Texas to close its doors for the next two 

 years. 



A CHAIR of legislation in the law school of 

 Coliunbia University has been endowed with 

 the sum of $150,000 by Mr. Joseph P. Cham- 

 berlain. Dr. Thomas I. Perkinson has been 

 appointed the first incumbent of the chair. 



The sum of a hundred thousand dollars has 

 been bequeathed to the University College of 

 South Wales by the will of the late Dr. William 

 Price. 



Colonel Samuel E. Gilman, a member of 

 the faculty of the West Point Military Acad- 

 emy, has been appointed superintendent to suc- 

 ceed Colonel Biddle, who has been assigned to 

 the command of the Sixth Regiment of Engi- 

 neers for service in France. 



Professor Willl^m Chandler Bagley, 

 Ph.D., director of the school of education of 

 the University of Illinois, has been appointed 

 professor of education in Teachers College, Co- 

 lumbia University. 



