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tonnage per life lost, while the Indian Terri- 

 tory has the largest percentage of deaths for 

 the tonnage mined. The total number of men 

 employed in the coal mines of the United 

 States in 1901 was 485,544, who made an 

 average of 316 working days, as compared 

 with 448,581 men, with an average of 212 

 working days, in 1900. The distribution of 

 this labor in 1901 was as follows: In the an- 

 thracite mines, 145,309 men, with an average 

 working time of 196 days; in the bituminous 

 mines, 340,235 men, with an average working 

 time of 235 days. 



Forestry and Irrigation gives details in re- 

 gard to the seven new forest reserves which 

 have been established recently by presidential 

 proclamation. These include three new re- 

 serves in Arizona : The Mount Graham For- 

 est Reserve, 118,600 acres in extent, located in 

 Graham county; the Santa Catalina Forest 

 Reserve of 155,520 acres, in Pima county, and 

 the Chiricahua Forest Reserve, in Cochise 

 county, of 169,600 acres in extent. In Mon- 

 tana two new reserves, the Madison Forest 

 Reserve of 736,000 acres and the Little Belt 

 Mountains Forest Reserve of 501,000 acres, 

 have been established. The first-named re- 

 serve is in Madison and Gallatin counties, 

 'bordering on the western side of the Yellow- 

 stone National Park. The Little Belt Re- 

 serve is located in Meagher and Fergus coun- 

 ties. A large new reserve has also been set 

 apart in New Mexico, to be known as the 

 Lincoln Forest Reserve. It is 500,000 acres 

 in extent and is located in Lincoln county. 

 An unusually large reserve has just been set 

 aside in Alaska, to be known as the Alexan- 

 dria Archipelago Forest Reserve; it contains 

 4,506,240 acres. In addition to the foregoing 

 new reserves, a number of changes have been 

 made in the reserves already established. 

 Lands have been added on the eastern side 

 of the Yellowstone Forest Reserve, increasing- 

 its area by 24,960 acres. The Medicine Bow 

 Forest Reserve, in Wyoming, has had recent 

 additions made to the amount of 20,533 acres. 

 The White River Reserve, in Colorado, has 

 been decreased in area by 68,160 acres along 

 the headwaters of the White and Yampa Riv- 



ers. The Crater Lake National Park of 164,- 

 560 acres, which was established by Congress 

 at its last session, reduces the size of the Cas- 

 cade Forest Reserve, in Oregon, by 152,680 

 acres. The total area of all the forest re- 

 serves is now 58,850,925 acres. It is interest- 

 ing to note that the total area of the United 

 States, exclusive of island possessions, is 

 2,362,960,000 acres. Thus it will be seen that 

 the forest reserves now amount to about one 

 fortieth of the entire area of the United 

 States. In square miles the area of the re- 

 serves is 91,954, or almost twice the size of 

 Pennsylvania. 



VXIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS. 

 A Reutee telegram, states that, as the 

 result of the investigations of a party of Brit- 

 ish educationalists who have been making in- 

 quiries in Canada, it has been decided to es- 

 tablish a training farm in connection with 

 Berkliampstead School. A site has been 

 selected between Calgarry and Edmonton, in 

 western Canada. Upon its success depends 

 the opening of several other farms where Brit- 

 ish youths will receive training. 



Professor R. S. Shaw, son of Professor 

 Thomas Shaw, of the Minnesota College of 

 Agriculture, has been elected professor of 

 agriculture of the Michigan Agricultural Col- 

 lege. Professor Shaw has been professor of 

 agriculture in Montana. 



Me. Raymond Burnham, graduated from 

 Cornell University in '97, has been appointed 

 professor of experimental engineering at the 

 Armour Institute, Chicago. He is the son of 

 the well-known astronomer. Professor S. W. 

 Burnham. 



De. F. H. Safpord, formerly instructor in 

 Harvard University and assistant professor in 

 the University of Cincinnati, has been ap- 

 pointed instructor in mathematics in the Uni- 

 versity of Pennsylvania. 



Dr. Willy Wien, of Wiirzburg, has been 

 called to the chair of physics at Leipzig, to 

 succeed Professor Ludwig Boltzmann. 



Dr. O. Schmidt, professor of chemistry at 

 Stuttgart, has retired. 



