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stones and whetstones, at $8,075,149, bluestone 

 at $1,931,625, marble at $7,129,071, and lime- 

 stone at $26,025,210. As the corresponding 

 value for 1904 was $58,765,715, it appears that 

 the production showed a gain of $5,033,033 

 during 1905. The increased output for 1905 

 was caused by more activity in the building 

 trades, and chiefly by a large increase in the 

 output of limestone for use as furnace flux, 

 which the reopening of many iron furnaces 

 demanded. Granite, marble and limestone in- 

 creased in value of output, while sandstone 

 decreased slightly. Limestone showed the 

 largest increase, from $22^78,964 in 1904 to 

 $26,025,210 in 1905, or $3,846,246. Granite, 

 including trap rock, gneiss, basalt, etc., in- 

 creased in value from $20,015,025 in 1904 to 

 $20,637,693 in 1905, a gain of $622,668. The 

 trap rock increased in value from $2,823,546 

 in 1904 to $3,074,554 in 1905, or $251,008. 

 Other granite increased in value from $17,- 

 191,479 in 1904 to $17,563,139 in 1905, a gain 

 of $371,660. Marble increased in value from 

 $6,297,835 in 1904 to $7,129,071 in 1905, a 

 gain of $831,236. Sandstone, including blue- 

 stone, decreased in value from $10,273,891 in 

 1904 to $10,006,774 in 1905, a loss of $267,117. 

 Bluestone increased in value from $1,791,729 

 in 1904 to $1,931,625 in 1905, a gain of $139,- 

 896. The sandstone figures showed a decrease 

 in value of $407,013— from $8,482,162 in 1904 

 to $8,075,149 in 1905. The production of these 

 different kinds of stone by individual states is 

 set forth in detail in this report, vphich was 

 prepared by Miss A. T. Coons, under the di- 

 rection of Mr. Edwin C. Eckel. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS. 



The General Education Board held a meet- 

 ing last week when Acting-president Henry 

 Pratt Judson, of the University of Chicago; 

 President E. A. Alderman, of the University 

 of Virginia, and President H. B. Erisell, of 

 the Hampton Institute, were elected trustees. 

 The following grants were made: 



Drury College, Springfield, Mo $ 50,000 



Iowa College, Grinnell, Iowa 100,000 



Richmond College, Richmond, Va 150,000 



Lawrence University, Appleton, Wis 50,000 



Washington and Lee University, Lexing- 

 ton, Va 5,000 



Mercer University, Macon, lia 75,000 



Randolph-Macon College, Ashland, Va 100,000 



The gifts made within the last six months, in 

 addition to those already mentioned, are: 



Tulane University, New Orleans $75,000 



Washburn College, Topeka, Kan 25,000 



Coe College, Cedar Rapids, Iowa 50,000 



Woff ord College, Spartansburg, S. C 35,000 



Furman University, Greenville, S. C 25,000 



Wake Forest College, Wake Forest, S. C. . 37,500 



Howard College, Birmingham, Ala 25,000 



Mississippi College, Clinton, Mass 25,000 



Southwestern University, Jackson, Tenn. . . 25,000 



We understand that the institutions are re- 

 quired to raise three times the amount of the 

 appropriation from the board. 



The daily papers state that Mr. Andrew 

 Carnegie has founded a scholarship in physics 

 at the University of Paris with the sum of 

 $2,500, in honor of the late Professor Curie 

 and Mme. Curie. 



Sir J. T. Beunner has endowed a chair of 

 Egyptology in the University of Liverpool. 



A NEW laboratory for experimental physics 

 is in course of erection at the University of 

 Toronto. The building is planned on the 

 unit system and will cost when completed, 

 with equipment, approximately $350,000. The 

 laboratory is designed to accommodate the 

 students in physics of the faculties of arts, 

 medicine and applied science, which at the 

 present time number about eight hundred. 



The John C. Green School of Science at 

 Princeton University has this year a larger 

 enrollment than the academic department. 

 The numbers in each class are: senior, 78; 

 junior, 67; sophomore, 144; freshman, 183. 

 The registration in the academic department 

 is: senior, 207; junior, 181; sophomore, 167; 

 freshman, 139. 



Dr. H. E. Annett has been elected to a 

 newly established chair of comparative pathol- 

 ogy in the University of Liverpool. 



Dr. Emil Philippi, docent in Berlin, has 

 been elected to the Haeckel chair of geology 

 and paleontology in the University of Jena. 



Dr. Otto Jaeckel, curator in the Berlin 

 Museura, has been called to a chair of geology 

 at Greifswald. 



