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and apophyses, in contrast with four extru- 

 sives, Second Mountain being double. 



The intrusive is considered of later age 

 than the first extrusive, and may be contem- 

 poraneous with one of the later extrusives or 

 subsequent to all of them. This conclusion is 

 in harmony with the results of recent studies 

 of the copper deposits, which are intimately 

 connected with the intrusion of the great 

 Palisades sill. 



There are many points of resemblance to 

 the Connecticut Valley traps: the same num- 

 ber of extrusives appear in both, grouped in 

 the uppermost strata ; in both the second is a 

 double flow; an intrusive sill lies near the 

 base, and dikes cut the intervening strata. 



This paper was illustrated with maps and 

 lantern slides. 

 Recent Investigations of the Potable Water 



Supplies of New Jersey: Dr. Henry B. 



KiJMMEL, State Geologist of New Jersey. 



The paper was illustrated with maps. 



Borne Volcanoes of the Western Mediter- 

 ranean: Dr. Henry S. Washington. 

 The speaker described briefly the volcanoes 

 of Catalonia, Sardinia, Pantelleria and Linosa, 

 which he visited for the Carnegie Institution 

 in the summer of 1905. The Catalonian erup- 

 tions are referred to two phases, a first of ex- 

 tensive lava flows, followed by the formation 

 of numerous small cinder cones, the material 

 being basaltic in every case, nephelite ap- 

 pearing in some types. The Sardinian oc- 

 currences consist of extensive sheets of basalt 

 and trachyte of Tertiary age, with the two 

 later large volcanoes of Monte Ferru and 

 Monte Arci, both of which show an interior 

 core of salic rocks (trachytes and phonolites 

 at the former and rhyolite at the latter), cov- 

 ered by extensive mantles of basalt. The last 

 phase of vulcanicity in Sardinia is seen in a 

 long line of small cinder cones of recent date, 

 much resembling those of Catalonia, in both 

 form and material. The island of Pantel- 

 leria is quite complex, but here also the earlier 

 eruptions were of trachytes and phonolites, 

 the activity closing with the formation of 

 small, basaltic, cinder cones. The small islet 



of Linosa, which is almost unknown, shows 

 nine volcanic cones, two phases of eruption 

 being evident: the first producing basalt tuff 

 cones, and the second basaltic cinder cones, 

 similar to those from the other localities. 

 The paper was illustrated by numerous photo- 

 graphs taken by the speaker. 



A Contribution to the Geology of Maine: Dr. 

 Ida H. Ogilvie. The paper was read by 

 title. 



A Peridotite Dike in Coal-measures of Bouth- 

 ivestern Pennsylvania: Professor J. P. Kemp 

 and Mr. J. G. Eoss. This paper will be 

 published in the Annals of the Academy. 

 Alexis A. Julien, 

 Secretary of Section 



DIscussIo:^^ and correspondence 



THE administration OF THE OHIO UNIVERSITY 



To THE Editor of Science: A remarkable 

 and, it is to be hoped, unique condition of 

 affairs exists at present in the Ohio Univer- 

 sity. There is at least one spot in this " land 

 of the free and home of the brave" where 

 Eussian administrative methods are in vognie. 

 At a recent meeting of the board of trustees 

 a member of the faculty was summarily dis- 

 missed. The president seems even to have 

 willfully misled the man, for he discussed 

 with him his work for next year only a few 

 days before commencement. His dismissal 

 was certainly not for incompetence. The 

 charge against him was that he had unfavor- 

 ably criticized the administration to one of 

 his colleagues. Evidently the delator, who is 

 the natural product of similar conditions 

 everywhere, got in his nefarious work. One 

 member of the board was guilty of the same 

 conduct toward another member of the faculty, 

 although he had always professed to be his 

 special friend. Whether the discharged pro- 

 fessor spoke the truth was not considered; he 

 was condemned on ex parte evidence without 

 being given a chance to be heard. Six years 

 ago Alston Ellis, who had formerly been at 

 the head of the Colorado Agricultural College, 

 was chosen president. His career in that 

 state was comparatively brief and would have 



