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pointed under this system will give their entire 

 time to study, research and such assisting in 

 clinics as they may be prepared for. A course 

 of study will be laid out for each fellow, 

 adapted to prepare him for the specialty chosen 

 by him. This course will include work in the 

 laboratory branches, dispensary service, hos- 

 pital service and investigation. It is probable 

 that the course (of two or three years?) will 

 lead to a degree properly recognizing the spe- 

 cialty in which the candidate has worked. 

 Arrangements may be made whereby these fel- 

 lows can spend one year at the Mayo Clinic 

 and count the same toward the advanced de- 

 gree. In order to inaugnirate the system the 

 board of regents of the university has author- 

 ized the following teaching fellowships for the 

 next school year: one each in medicine, in 

 surgery, in obstetrics and gynecology and in 

 eye, ear, nose and throat, each of $500. There 

 is also provision for one $500 fellowship and 

 one $1,000 fellowship in mental and nervous 

 diseases, or in lieu of these a $1,500 instruc- 

 torship. 



The Geological Survey has completed its 

 preparations for the annual campaign of in- 

 vestigating the mineral resources of Alaska, 

 the field plans for the year having been ap- 

 proved by Secretary Lane. Eleven parties 

 will be put in the field this year, and as in the 

 past special heed wiU be given to the investi- 

 gation of the resources of tliose districts which 

 are tributary to the several routes that have 

 been advocated for the proposed government 

 railways. A party under the leadership of 

 J. W. Bag-ley and Theodore Chapin will under- 

 take the exploration of the region tributary to 

 Talkeetna Kiver and will connect with the 

 surveys of the liroad Pass region made last 

 year. Aia exploration of the region lying be- 

 tween Lake Clark on the east and the Iditarod 

 district on the west will be undertaken by 

 E. H. Sargent and Philip S. Smith. A. G. 

 Maddren will investigate the goldplacer dis- 

 tricts tributary to the lower Kuskokwim. He 

 will ascend Iditarod Eiver by canoe, portage 

 across the divide to reach the Kuskokwim, and 

 visit the Anniak, Tuluksak and Goodnews 

 Bay placer districts. Stephen K. Capps and 



C. E. Giffin will carry geologic and topographic 

 surveys across Skolai Pass into the White 

 Eiver basin and thence to the international 

 boundary. A detailed base map will be made 

 of part of the Juneau district, now the most 

 important gold lode camp in Alaska and prom- 

 ising to become one of the most important on 

 the continent. D. C. Witherspoon will under- 

 take the making of the map, which will be on 

 a scale of three inches to tlie mile. A survey 

 of the Kotsina copper-bearing area was under- 

 taken in 1912. It is planned that F. H. Moffit 

 and J. B. Mertie now complete this work. 

 B. L. Johnson, with one assistant, will under- 

 take the detailed geologic survey of the Port 

 Valdez gold and copper district. To coordi- 

 nate and correlate the various geologic surveys 

 in Alaska it is necessary to continue the 

 studies of the general geology and mineral re- 

 sources. Three geologists will be engaged in 

 this work during 1914. George C. Martin, 

 assisted by E. M. Overbeck, will continue his 

 studies of the Mesozoic stratigraphy. He will 

 visit localities in southeastern Alaska, in the 

 Chitina Valley, and along the Yukon. H. M. 

 Eakin will undertake supplementary investi- 

 gations of the tin deposits of Alaska. Alfred 

 H. Brooks, the geologist in charge of the 

 Alaska surveys and investigations, expects to 

 leave for Alaska as soon as ofiice work permits. 

 He will study especially the problems of 

 Quaternary geology, including the genesis and 

 occurrence of placer deposits. He will visit 

 the Iditarod and Fairbanks districts and, time 

 permitting, the Nome district. Mr. Brooks 

 will also join the MofEt party in the Kotsina 

 district and the Johnson party in the Valdez 

 district for brief periods of time. 



Dr. W. p. Heeeingham, vice-chancellor of 

 the University of London, and Sir Alfred 

 Pearce Gould, chairman of the Brown Institu- 

 tion Committee, write to the London Times 

 with reference to the movement for further 

 university research into the causation of swine 

 fever and other animal diseases ; that the work 

 of the Brown Animal Sanatory Institution be- 

 longing to the University of London has not 



