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of the Geological Survey Director King proph- 

 esied for the United States a future annual 

 output of mineral products having a value of 

 a billion dollars, and that the present produc- 

 tion is two and one half times that amount, 

 it must be conceded that the desirability of 

 the federal scientific investigations of these 

 national resources is even greater than in 1880. 

 " It is a most conservative statement," Direc- 

 tor Smith says, " that at no date has the gen- 

 eral public been in closer touch with the 

 United States Geological Survey or made 

 larger use of the published or unpublished 

 results of its surveys and investigations than 

 at the present time." 



UNIFEBSITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS 

 A BEQUEST of $3,000,000 to Oberlin College 

 by Charles M. Hall, the distinguished electro- 

 chemist and manufacturer of aluminum, is an- 

 nounced. The bequest is in the form of 

 $2,000,000 endowment to be used for any pur- 

 pose, $500,000 to be used to build an audi- 

 torium, $100,000 for the auditorium's main- 

 tenance, $200,000 to be spent for campus im- 

 provements; all property in Oberlin owned by 

 Dr. HaU, and a valuable art collection. 



The will of Miss Grace Hoadley Dodge, for 

 many years known for her educational and 

 philanthropic activities in New York City, 

 contains bequests of $1,400,000 for educational 

 and charitable purposes, as well as a number 

 of deferred bequests of the same character. 

 The sum of $500,000 is bequeathed to Teachers 

 College, Columbia University, in the found- 

 ing and conduct of which she took an active 

 part. The college will receive two deferred 

 bequests, one of which may be large. To the 

 National Board of the Y. W. C. A. the sum of 

 $500,000 is left, and to the Y. W. C. A. of 

 New York City, $200,000. 



At the meeting of the corporation of Har- 

 vard University on December 28, it was voted 

 to establish a separate faculty for the Bussey 

 Institution. The vote was consented to by the 

 board of overseers, and the new body at present 

 includes the following members: W. M. 

 Wheeler, Ph.D.; W. E. Castle, Ph.D.; E. T. 



Fisher, A.B., M.F. ; E. M. East, Ph.D. ; C. T. 

 Brues, S.M.; I. W. Bailey, A.B., M.F., and 

 C. C. Little, S.D., of the Bussey Institution; 

 G. H. Parker, S.D. and W. J. V. Osterhout, 

 Ph.D., of the faculty of arts and sciences ; and 

 E. E. Tyzzer, A.M., M.D., of the medical 

 school. 



Dr. C. E. Burke, lately of the University of 

 California, has been appointed instructor in 

 the department of chemistry at the University 

 of Vermont. 



Dr. Howard D. Haskins, formerly associate 

 professor of bio-chemistry in the school of 

 medicine of Western Eeserve University, has 

 been appointed professor of bio-chemistry in 

 the medical department of the University of 

 Oregon. 



Dr. Frederick D. Heald, of Philadelphia, 

 has been appointed professor of plant pathol- 

 ogy and pathologist, Washington State College 

 and Experiment Station, Pullman, Washing- 

 ton. 



DISCUSSION AND COBBESPONDENCE 

 bateson's address, mendelism and mutation 



In Bateson's thoughtful and stimulating 

 address,^ a recognized authority on evolution 

 attempts to summarize for us recent progress 

 in the study of that subject by analytical 

 methods. It would be well for all engaged in 

 some particular branch of this subject to at- 

 tempt thus to lift the eyes from the scene of 

 their individual labors and survey from time 

 to time the entire field. An indispensable 

 sense of proportion and perspective is thus 

 gained. This is my excuse for commenting 

 briefly on some of Bateson's fruitful ideas. 



That evolution occurs all biologists agree. 

 That the organisms now existing on this earth 

 are different from those which formerly existed 

 here no one questions. But we are still ignor- 

 ant of how they came to be different. The 

 geological record indicates that the change was 

 gradual. The supposed ancestors of the horse, 



1 Bateson, W., Address of the President of the 

 British Association for the Advancement of Sci- 

 ence, Science, N. S., 40, pp. 287-302, August 28, 

 1914. 



