550 
Dinosaurs. Along with these proportions we 
may well expect to find a correspondingly 
shorter neck and perhaps an animal fitted for 
arboreal food habits. Such a short-necked type 
was long since suggested by Marsh in his Apa- 
tosaurus laticollis.* 
In a future publication of the Field Colum- 
bian Museum a complete description of this 
most interesting Dinosaur will be given. 
ELMER 8. Ria@s. 
FIELD CoLuMBIAN MusEuM, 
March 16, 1901. 
A RECENT FAULT-SLIP, OGDEN CANYON, UTAH. 
Ir is generally known that the western face 
of the Wasatch range, Utah, is determined by 
a profound fault, and that numerous minor 
faults are observable at the base of the-range. 
At the mouth of Ogden canyon these secondary 
faults are particularly plain. Recently there 
occurred at the locality named a very slight slip 
along one of the minor fault planes. The move- 
ment opened acrack in a mass of gneiss through 
which a tunnel has been cut asa part of the con- 
duit pertaining to the Ogden Power and Light 
Company’s generating plant. The tunnel walls 
were fractured, a crack averaging one and a half 
inches appearing on the inside. The escaping 
water found outlets on the mountain side at 
depths of from fifty to a hundred and fifty feet 
below the tunnel floor, and in its course it car- 
ried down many tons of boulders and debris. 
A steel bridge over the Ogden river was com- 
pletely destroyed. The disturbance was strictly 
local, and apparently was due to the escape of 
water from the tunnel down the plane of fault- 
ing, thus constituting a column which by hydro- 
static pressure further shifted the block. As to 
expansion through freezing being the probable 
cause, there is none but negative evidence. 
Repairs are in progress. These consist in the 
removal of the upper part of the shifted block, 
and in carrying a wooden pipe line through the 
tunnel. 
It appears that the water was first seen issu- 
ing from the side of the mountain below the 
tunnel within a few days after the occurrence 
of a slight earth-tremor in the vicinity. Inthe 
loose alluvial deposits along the mountain front 
* Amer. Jour Sci., Vol. XVILI., p. 87. 
SCLENCE. 
[N. S. Vou. XIII. No. 327. 
on the north of the canyon mouth, cracks and 
subsequent settlings have appeared. 
J. HE, TALMAGE. 
QUOTATIONS. 
THE U. S. NAVAL OBSERVATORY. 
THE Secretary of the Navy has temporarily 
ended the Naval Observatory troubles, without 
the aid of a court of inquiry or court-martial, 
by detaching Professor Stimson J. Brown from 
the institution. * * * It would seem from this 
that Secretary Long shares with Capt. Davis, 
the superintendent of the Observatory, the 
belief that Professor Brown transgressed the 
naval regulations in his efforts to have Congress 
pass the legislation needed to make the institu- 
tion a great national one, and not a mere ad- 
junct to the navy. As Capt. Davyis’s tour of 
shore duty expires before long, a new superin- 
tendent may be looked for within six months, 
and peace in the Observatory may be expected 
until the new superintendent and new director 
of astronomy come to a parting of the ways. 
Meanwhile, scientists all over the country are 
being urged to come to the rescue of the Ob- 
servatory by bringing pressure to bear upon 
Congress. A bill which met the approval of 
SCIENCE was introduced in the Senate in the last 
session by Senator Morgan. It provided for the 
nationalization of the Observatory and for the 
appointment as director of an eminent astrono- 
mer, ‘to be selected from the astronomers of 
the National Academy of Sciences, unless in 
the judgment of the President one of higher 
scientific and executive qualifications be found.’ 
Friends of the institution should see to it that 
a similar bill is introduced at the opening of 
the next Congress and vigorously pushed to 
passage.—The N. Y. Evening Post. 
POLITICS AND STATE UNIVERSITIES. 
To form a just conception of the working of 
the State university, we should go to the older 
States of the Central West, where State uni- 
versities have long been in existence, and where 
they have had time to shape, in a measure at 
least, public opinion on university education. 
In this part of the country the four most con- 
spicuous and liberally supported State univer- 
sities are those of Michigan, Illinois, Wisconsin 
