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SCIENCE. 



[N. S. Vol. XVI. No. 396. 



Word lias been received from Mr. Alfred 

 H. Brooks, geologist in charge of the work of 

 exploration which the United States Geolog- 

 ical Survey is conducting in Alaska, that his 

 party has successfully crossed the Beluga 

 River. This party recently landed in southern 

 Alaska, and expects to penetrate the region in 

 the vicinity of Mount McKinley as far as the 

 Tanana River, whence they will proceed to 

 Circle City and the Forty-mile district, if the 

 season is not too far advanced, or will descend 

 the Tukon River, of which the Tanana is the 

 principal tributary on the south, if it is too 

 late to go farther north. Much of the region 

 through which they will pass is entirely un- 

 knovm, and the Beluga River is supposed to 

 be the greatest obstacle to progress. Mr. 

 Brooks reports that with the aid of a boat he 

 safely swam his entire outfit over this stream. 

 He also reports that their first view of Mount 

 McKinley was had from Mount Sushitna, a 

 - distance of 125 miles. Mount McKinley is 

 the highest mountain on the North American 

 continent — 20,464 feet above sea level — and 

 lies in the midst of an extremely rugged re- 

 gion which has never been explored. 



On July 1 the Bureau of Forestry began its 

 field season of 1902, and its work is now being 

 carried on in 20 States. The Bureau has ap- 

 pointed 90 new student assistants for this sea- 

 son, the entire field force numbering 165 men. 

 The work includes, among other things, the 

 gathering of the necessary data for several 

 working plans, a study of a number of well- 

 known commercial trees, the examination of 

 farm woodlots, and a study of the treeless 

 areas with a view of devising plans for forest 

 extension. The Bureau of Forestry begins the 

 new fiscal year of 1902-1903 with an appro- 

 priation of $291,860. The amount for the 

 year just ended was $185,440. The present 

 season's work is being carried on in Maine, 

 New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, 

 New York, New Jersey, Maryland, Tennessee, 

 Kentucky, West Virginia, North Carolina, 

 Michigan, Minnesota, Nebraska, Oklahoma, 

 South Dakota, Montana, Arizona, and Cali- 

 fornia. Later in the season it will be ex- 

 tended to still other States and Territories. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS. 



On the occasion of the celebration of the 

 centenary of the Technical Institute at Char- 

 lottenburg, the sum of about $450,000 was col- 

 lected by subscription. $12,000 is to be spent 

 for a monument commemorating the centenary 

 and the balance is to be used as a fund for 

 the advancement of technical science. It is 

 administered by a board of twenty-five mem- 

 bers. 



Mr. Oesen V. TousLEY has bequeathed $70,- 

 000 to Williams College, subject to a life in- 

 terest of his wife. He suggests that the money 

 be used as an endowment for the purchase of 

 books. 



Dr. Charles R. Keyes, the geologist, has / 

 been elected president of the New Mexico 

 School of Mines. 



Mh. W. a. Hamilton, graduate of the In- 

 diana University, has been appointed professor 

 of astronomy and mathematics at Beloit Col- 

 lege. 



It is reported that all appointments for the 

 newly organized collegiate department of Clark 

 University have now been made. Professors 

 Story (mathematics), Webster (physics) and 

 Hodge (biology), of the University, will have 

 charge of the same departments in the college. 

 Mr. J. G. Coffin, B.S. (Mass. Inst.), is to be 

 instructor in physics; Mr. C. W. Easley, A.M. 

 (Dickinson College), instructor in chemistry; 

 and F. H. Hodge, A.M. (Boston), instructor 

 in mathematics. These instructors hold ap- 

 pointments as fellows in Clark University for 

 the coming year. Instructors in modern lan- 

 guages, in English and in economics and his- 

 tory have also been appointed ; and, as we have 

 already announced, Mr. R. C. Bentley, fellow 

 in pedagogy, has been appointed professor of 

 Latin and Greek and dean of the faculty. 



Professor E. E. Bogue has been elected to 

 the chair of forestry in the Michigan Agricul- 

 tural College. 



At the University of Vienna Dr. Carl Gus- 

 senbauer, professor of surgery, has been ap- 

 pointed rector and Dr. Ernst Ludwig, professor 

 of chemistry, dean. 



