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SCIENCE 



[N. S. Vol. XXVI. No. 670 



Meteorological Observatory at Upsala. Dr. 

 Hamberg, director of the Swedish Meteorolog- 

 ical Office, was elected to succeed Professor 

 Hildebrandsson as a member of the commit- 

 tee. The other vacant places were filled by 

 the appointment of Dr. Maurer, director of 

 the Swiss office, and Mr. Stupart, director of 

 the Canadian office. 



The lime produced in the United States in 

 1906 amounted to 3,197,754 short tons, valued 

 at $12,480,653, an increase over the production 

 for 1905 of 213,654 tons in quantity and of 

 $1,130,425 in value. The average price per 

 ton in 1906 was $3.90, against $3.67 in 1905, 

 an increase of $0.23. These figures are re- 

 ported by Mr. E. C. Eckel, in an advance 

 chapter from " Mineral Resources of the 

 United States, 1906," published by the U. S. 

 Geological Survey and now ready for distribu- 

 tion. The distribution of the production by 

 states shows that Pennsylvania, with 624,060 

 tons valued at $1,857,754, has first place, its 

 nearest competitor being Ohio, with 331,972 

 tons valued at $1,100,133. Maine, Wisconsin 

 and Minnesota each produced more than 

 200,000 tons, with values approximating $1,- 

 000,000; and Maryland, Illinois, Massa- 

 chusetts, New York and Vermont follow in 

 the order named, with productions of more 

 than 100,000 tons. West Virginia, Alabama 

 and Connecticut each exceeded 90,000 tons. 

 The value per ton increased in almost every 

 state, the producers giving as the cause the in- 

 creased cost of fuel, supplies and labor. Of 

 the total production, 2,647,724 tons were sold 

 for structural uses as building lime, hydrated 

 lime, for sand-lime brick manufacture, for 

 slag cement, and for quick -lime brick ; 550,030 

 tons were used in various chemical industries. 



UmVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS 

 The will of Robert N. Carson provides for 

 the establishment of an industrial school for 

 girls at the death of Mrs. Carson. The school, 

 which is to be on the model of Girard College, 

 will, it is said, have an endowment of five 

 million dollars. 



A FELLOWSHIP in physics of the value of 

 $500 annually has been established at the Uni- 

 versity of Cincinnati in memory of the late 



Henry Hanna, of Cincinnati, who was the 

 giver of one of the university halls. The 

 foundation was made by his widow and 

 daughter. 



A College of Medicine, in which for the 

 present only the first two years of the medical 

 course will be given, has been formally organ- 

 ized at the University of Wisconsin. The 

 entrance requirements include at least two 

 years of college work. There are specific re- 

 quirements in Latin, French and German and 

 in physics, chemistry and biology. Dr. 0. E. 

 Bardeen is dean. 



Dr. Ezra Brainerd has resigned the presi- 

 dency of Middlebury College, which he had 

 held for the past twenty-three years, having 

 been in all instructor, professor and president 

 of the institution for forty-three years. Dr. 

 Brainerd is known for his work on the geol- 

 ogy of the Champlain Valley and the botany 

 of Vermont. Dr. John M. Thomas, pastor of 

 the Presbyterian church at East Orange, N. J., 

 has been elected president of the institution. 



Dr. Emery Taylor, associate in anatomy at 

 the Wistar Institute of Anatomy, has been 

 elected assistant professor of anatomy at Cor- 

 nell University. 



Dr. F. W. Thyrig has been appointed 

 Bullard Fellow in embryology at the Harvard 

 Medical School, and will devote himself to re- 

 searches on the anatomy of human embryos 

 and on the comparative embryology of the 

 pancreas. 



Mr. L. E. Emerson, Ph.D. (Harvard), has 

 been appointed instructor in philosophy in 

 the University of Michigan. 



Professor J. J. Charles has retired from 

 the chair of anatomy and physiology at 

 Queen's College, Cork, which he has held since 

 the establishment of the college. The chair 

 has been divided — Dr. B. C. A. Windle, presi- 

 dent of the college, having been made professor 

 of anatomy and Dr. David Barry, professor of 

 physiology. 



Dr. Ludwig Brunner, has been promoted to 

 an associate professorship of chemistry in the 

 University of Krakau, and Dr. Erich Marx, 

 to an associate professorship of physics in the 

 University of Leipzig. 



