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cent), Ohio, 3,236,Y58 barrels (11.49 per 

 cent.), Kansas 2,198,837 barrels (7.8 per cent.), 

 and Louisiana 1,179,528 barrels (4.19 per 

 cent.). These five states contributed 90.62 

 per cent, of the total quantity of salt produced 

 in the country during the year. 



.UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS 



It is announced that the Morley Chemical 

 Laboratory of Western Reserve University, 

 named in honor of Dr. Edward W. Morley, 

 emeritus professor of chemistry, will be built 

 during the present year. 



The College of the City of New York be- 

 gins its fifty-first year in its magnificent new 

 ;buildings on St. Nicholas Heights. 



Work on the new medical and science 

 buildings of McGill University, to replace 

 those destroyed by fire, is progressing rapidly. 

 The new medical building will cost at least 

 $500,000. 



It is proposed to erect a new building for the 

 medical department of Tulane University, New 

 Orleans. The building will be on the univer- 

 sity campus, at a cost of $150,000. 



Dr. Joseph Marshall, of the University of 

 California, succeeds Dr. William H. Carmalt, 

 ,as professor of surgery in Tale University. 



Dr. a. M. Eeese, of Syracuse University, 

 ;has been appointed professor of zoology at 

 •the University of West Virginia, Morgan- 

 town, W. Va. 



Julian C. Smallwood, M.E. (Columbia 

 'University '03), has been appointed professor 

 in charge of the department of mechanical 

 -engineering at George Washington University. 



Mr. Murray Arnold Hines, Ph.D. (Har- 

 vard), of the Mallinckrodt Chemical Works 

 of St. Louis, has been appointed assistant pro- 

 fessor of chemistry in Northwestern Uni- 

 versity. 



Professor J. C. Shedd, for the past seven 

 years professor of physics at Colorado College, 

 Colorado Springs, has been elected dean of 

 the College of Letters and Science of West- 

 minster University, Denver, Colorado. Dr. 

 Shedd will also hold the chair of physics. 

 I>r. John Inglis, of Pueblo, Colo., has been 



elected to the chair of physiological psychol- 

 ogy and physiology and hygiene. Dr. Inglis 

 was for three years director of the Presby- 

 terian Hospital at Pekin, China, and has 

 studied abroad in the Hospitals of London and 

 Berlin. 



The following additional appointments have 

 been made in the department of chemistry. 

 College of the City of New York: Tutors — 

 Eobert W. Curtis, Ph.D., Tale, 1904; L. J. 

 Cohen, Ph.D., Columbia, 1907; H. B. Griffin, 

 A.B., Bowdoin, 1904. Assistant Tutor— B. P. 

 Peinberg, B. S., College of the City of New 

 York, 1907. Tutor Prager has been granted 

 a year's leave of absence to complete his work 

 for the degree of doctor of philosophy at the 

 Clark University. 



The following promotions and appoint- 

 ments, some of which have already been an- 

 nounced, have been made at Lehigh Univer- 

 sity for the coming year: Professor J. F. 

 Klein, dean of the faculty and superintendent 

 of heat and light; P. B. deSchweinitz, pro- 

 fessor of machine design in the department 

 of mechanical engineering; Eobert C. H. 

 Heck, professor of experimental engineering 

 in the department of mechanical engineering; 

 Prank P. MeKibben, professor of civil engi- 

 neering, in charge of the department; Winter 

 L. Wilson, professor of railroad engineering 

 in the department of civil engineering; W. B. 

 Schober, professor of chemistry; Dr. Myron 

 J. Luch, assistant professor of English; Dr. 

 Benjamin L. Miller, professor of geology; 

 Walter S. Landis, assistant professor of min- 

 eralogy and metallurgy ; Dr. Walter W. Davis, 

 professor of physical education; Dr. Percy L. 

 Hughes, assistant professor of philosophy and 

 psychology; N. M. Emery, assistant to the 

 president; Joseph B. Eeynolds, instructor in 

 mathematics; Dr. George E. Stebbins, J. A. 

 Veasey and Eollin L. Charles, instructors in 

 physics; Edward S. Poster, instructor in elec- 

 trical engineering; Dr. Wm. L. Berkeley, in- 

 structor in industrial chemistry and qualita- 

 tive analysis; Dunlap J. McAdam, Jr., assist- 

 ant in chemistry; T. A. W. Mawhinney, as- 

 sistant in German; E. J. Gilmore, assistant 

 in German. 



