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college. Miss Sarah E. Doyle, of Providence, 

 was elected president, Mrs. Elizabeth L. 

 Clarke, treasurer and Mrs. Ada Wing Mead, 

 secretary. The Table of the Association at 

 the Zoological Station at Naples has been oc- 

 cupied at different times during the past year 

 by Miss Grace Watkinson, A.B., Smith, 1902, 

 A.M., 1904; Miss Elorence Peebles, A.B., 

 Women's College of Baltimore, 1895, Ph.D., 

 Bryn Mawr, 1900, and Miss Anna G. Newell, 

 A.B., Smith, 1900. It has been assigned foi; 

 the spring of 1908 to Miss Mary J. Hogue, 

 A.B., Women's College of Baltimore, 1905. 

 The next annual meeting will be held in 

 Providence on invitation of Dean King and 

 President Faunce in behalf of the Women's 

 College in Brown University. Nine theses 

 were received in competition for the $1,000 

 prize offered in 1907. Three of them were 

 sent from foreign countries. The theses 

 showed wider range of endeavor than those 

 received in the two previous contests as they 

 dealt with botanical, anatomical, morpho- 

 logical, physiological and chemical problems. 

 Several were of decided merit, but since, in the 

 opinion of the examiners, no one was of ade- 

 quate merit to deserve the award, the associa- 

 tion voted to exercise its right to withhold the 

 prize. The fourth prize is announced for 

 1909. 



According to statistics compiled for the 

 United States Geological Survey by Edward 

 W. Parker, coal-mining expert in charge, the 

 total production of coal in the United States 

 in 1906 was 414,039,581 short tons of 2,000 

 pounds, valued at $512,610,744. These fig- 

 ures, compared with those of the preceding 

 year, when the output amounted to 392,919,341 

 short tons, valued at $476,756,963, show an 

 increase of 21,120,240 short tons, or 5.4 per 

 cent., in quantity, and of $35,853,781, or 7.5 

 per cent., in value. Of the total production 

 in 1906, Pennsylvania contributed 200,546,084 

 short tons, or 48.4 per cent., in quantity, and 

 $262,182,935, or 51.1 per cent, in value, the 

 larger percentage in the value being due, of 

 course, to the higher value of anthracite, which 

 is produced almost exclusively in that state. 

 The production of coal. in 1906 by states was 

 as follows: 



state. Product. Valne. 



Alabama 13,107,663 $17,467,886 



Arkansas 1,864,518 2,999,774 



California and Alaska . 30,831 78,684 



Colorado 10,114,074 12,738,509 



Georgia and North Caro- 

 lina 363,463 407,247 



Idaho and Nevada 6,165 24,238 



Illinois 41,497,435 44,742,440 



Indiana 12,084,281 13,105,168 



Indian Territory 2,859,450 5,481,053 



Iowa 7,321,639 11,688,598 



Kansas 6,010,858 8,935,195 



Kentucky 9,673,536 9,794,823 



Maryland 5,434,528 6,473,829 



Michigan 1,336,338 2,402,529 



Missouri 3,755,778 6,163,449 



Montana 1,787,934 3,186,620 



New Mexico 1,963,558 2,635,571 



North Dakota 300,998 437,894 



Ohio 27,729,843 30,386,297 



Oregon 79,731 212,338 



Pennsylvania : 



Anthracite 71,282,411 131,917,694 



Bituminous 129,263,673 130,265,241 



Tennessee 6,262,686 7,082,121 



Texas 1,160,707 2,058,731 



Utah 1,773,847 2,411,992 



Virginia 4,275,815 4,207,521 



Washington 3,276,184 5,908,434 



West Virginia 43,276,485 40,777,382 



Wyoming 6,138,152 8,019,486 



Total ..414,039,581 $512,610,744 



The Meteorological Service of the Dominion 

 of Canada is now sending time signals from 

 the observatory at St. John, of which Mr. D. 

 L. Hutchinson is director, by telegraph to the 

 wireless station at Camperdown, where special 

 apparatus has been installed to automatically 

 transmit the signals to ships at sea within the 

 zone of that station. Time signals will be 

 sent each week day morning as follows : Be- 

 ginning at 9h. 5Sm., a.m., Atlantic time, dots 

 are made each second up to and including 

 9h. 58m. 57s., then a pause of two seconds, 

 followed by a dot at 9h. 59m.; then another 

 pause of two seconds follows; the clock then 

 makes dots each second up to and including 

 9h. 59m. 50s.; a pause is then made, followed 

 by a dot at lOh. a.m., Atlantic or Standard 

 time of the 60th meridian west longitude, 

 equivalent to 2h., p.m., Greenwich mean time. 



