August 15, 1902.] 



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uable display of those of Elisee, Eeclus, the 

 great geographer of modern times. The charts 

 of the Ka-Tanga scientiiic expedition here iind 

 a place, as well as the various scientifie appa- 

 ratus used by the members of the mission. 

 There is a fine map of the Lower Kongo and 

 some remarkable relief maps of the Suez and 

 Panama canals, the districts of Lake Geneva 

 and the Matterhorn, as well as a large one of 

 the surface of the moon. The ethnograpliical 

 section comprises photographs, weapons, house- 

 hold utensils, religious objects, articles of 

 wearing apparel, etc., from the Kongo Mu- 

 seum at Terveuren, from missions in the Kon- 

 go, China, Java and South America, besides a 

 brilliant display of gods and goddesses from 

 the Dutch East Indies and beautiful tapes- 

 tries from the royal palace at Pekin. In the 

 maritime section are models of the newest 

 types of ocean liners, furnished by the princi- 

 pal steam navigation lines; models of old 

 Dutch craft and men-of-war, and of the pro- 

 posed ports at Ghent, Brussels and Heyst; 

 souvenirs of the explorations of the Duke of 

 Abruzzi, of the Belgian Antarctic expedition, 

 etc. A number of improved instruments for 

 studying the depths of the sea, life-saving ap- 

 paratus, and instrujnents of precision for ex- 

 ploring, prospecting and surveying purposes, 

 besides astronomical instruments, complete an 

 exhibition that is highly interesting from both 

 an educational and scientific point of view. 



Nature states that at the meeting of the 

 London County Council on Tuesday the Tech- 

 nical Education Board reported the result of 

 the inquiry by a special subcommittee of the 

 board as to the need and present provision for 

 special training of an advanced kind in con- 

 nection with the application of science (es- 

 pecially chemistry and electricity) to industry, 

 and as to what, if any, developments are need- 

 ed to secure efficient training in these subjects 

 for senior county scholars and other advanced 

 students who desire to qualify themselves to 

 take leading positions in scientific industries. 

 The report of the special subcommittee deals 

 with matters which the board points out are of 

 great importance to the present and future 

 prosperity of various English industries, no- 



tably some connected with London. The mem- 

 bers of the special committee came, without a 

 dissentient voice, to the conclusions (1) that 

 England (and London in particular) has suf- 

 fered the loss of certain industries and that 

 others are in danger; (2) that this loss has 

 been largely due to defective education, especi- 

 ally in the higher grades; and (3) that London 

 is still seriously behind other cities, notably 

 Berlin, in the provision for the higher grades 

 of scientific training and research. The re- 

 port was accepted, with the addition of the 

 recommendation ' that the Technical Educa- 

 tion Board be instructed to report as to the 

 steps it proposes to take in order to give prac- 

 tical effect to the suggestions contained in the 

 report.' 



The Electrical World states that Arizona 

 has several large and very important water 

 power projects under construction. Lack of 

 rain in the southwest serves as a great hin- 

 drance to development of water storage and 

 developments in water power. In the Salt 

 River Valley the towns of Phoenix, Tempe and 

 Mesa are lighted with electricity, generated 

 by small falls in the valley's canal systems. 

 Sixty miles southeast of Prescott, on Fossil 

 Creek, work has begun on a scheme that is 

 destined to develop 2,000 horse-power, to be 

 used mainly in the mines of central Yavapai 

 County. A great power project is in incuba- 

 tion, based upon the damming of Bill Wil- 

 liams Fork, in extreme western Arizona. The 

 new dam that is to store flood waters for the 

 use of the Salt River Valley is to be built 

 largely with the aid of water power, and a few 

 miles above the reservoir it will supply power 

 for a 3,000-h. p. transmission line to Globe and 

 other central Arizona mining camps. This 

 plant is being built by C. M. Clark. The 

 Grand Canyon of Arizona affords the greatest 

 field for electricity generated by water power. 

 Below the new Santa Fe Hotel, on the canyon 

 brink, are Indian Garden Springs, which, in 

 ordinary seasons, have a flow of nearly 100 

 miners' inches, that can be thrown over a cliff' 

 3,000 feet high. In Cataract Canyon, the 

 stream of flow usually approximating 10,000 

 miners' inches, makes three great leaps of 70, 



