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epidote, clearly of secondary origin, were 

 found. The albite ( ?) could not be positively 

 identified, but was clearly secondary. 



The minerals and their associations just 

 described indicate that the rock has suffered 

 hydrothermal alteration, presumably near the 

 contact of some plutonic intrusive. It there- 

 fore remains for the meteorite specialists to 

 decide whether or not a newly fallen meteorite 

 may be similar in mineral characters to hy- 

 drothermaUy altered terrestrial rocks. Pro- 

 fessor Very's argument is that absence of 

 pronounced kaolinization and ferruginous 

 staining are good evidence that the stone is 

 not a glacial boulder; but opposed to this ar- 

 gument is the fact of the corroded surface. 

 The stone was discovered near the top of a 

 gentle slope and certainly could not have be- 

 come so corroded at that point. There is a 

 swampy tract at the base of the slope. Could 

 the stone have been corroded there and later 

 been removed to the point of " discovery" ? 



Professor Very's argument that the stone 

 is a meteorite is based, in short, partly on 

 absence of kaolinization and ferruginous 

 staining, but chiefly upon the verbal testimony 

 cited in his article; the writer's argument to 

 the contrary rests on the altered character 

 evidenced by mineral relations, and the 

 swamp-corroded surface, which coupled with 

 the point of discovery, are at least suggestive 

 of fraud. 



g. f. loughlin 



Massachusetts Institute 

 OF Technology, 

 February 8, 1910 



QUOTATIONS 



ANOTHER ROSS CASE ' 



Ten years ago Professor E. A. Eoss was 

 dismissed from Leland Stanford University 

 because Mrs. Stanford was offended by the ac- 

 tive part he took in the campaign for free 

 silver and by his extreme language in opposi- 

 tion to Japanese immigration. Last week he 

 was publicly rebuked by the regents of the 

 University of Wisconsin for exposing his stu- 

 dents to the influence of dangerous agitators. 

 The text of the resolution is as follows : 



" Whereas, It has come to the knowledge of 

 the Board of Regents that Professor E. A. 

 Eoss, of the department of sociology in our 

 university, has invited to lecture in the uni- 

 versity and under its auspices, persons whose 

 record and expressed views are subversive of 

 good morals, therefore be it 



" Eesolved, By the Board of Eegents that 

 we strongly disapprove of such action, and 

 that the president of the university is re- 

 quested to inform Professor Eoss of the cen- 

 sure of the board and their unanimous disap- 

 proval of his indiscretions." 



The disturbance originated in the visit of 

 Emma Goldman to Madison, where she gave 

 a lecture in a downtown hall in no wise con- 

 nected with the university. She visited the 

 university and was shown through it, but her 

 request to be allowed to address classes was 

 refused. Later, however, she was invited by 

 a socialist club of students to speak at their 

 meeting in the T. M. C. A. building. Pro- 

 fessor Eoss, referring in his classes to the fact 

 that a woman was tearing down the cards 

 announcing the lecture, took occasion to ex- 

 press himself in favor of free speech and men- 

 tioned the Goldman lecture downtown that 

 evening, at the same time stating his disap- 

 proval of such anarchistic teachings. 



This, however, was made the basis of a sen- 

 sational attack by certain newspapers of Wis- 

 consin upon the university for using the 

 facilities provided at the expense of the tax- 

 payers for the promulgating of anarchistic 

 and immoral doctrines. The Board of Visi- 

 tors appointed a committee to examine in- 

 structors, students, lecture notes and text- 

 books in the department of political economy 

 and came to the following conclusion : 



" This investigation disclosed nothing that 

 would warrant the charge that anarchistic, 

 socialistic, or other dangerous doctrines are 

 being taught in the university. On the con- 

 trary, investigation disclosed striking in- 

 stances of foreigners who have come to the 

 university as students believing in anarchism 

 and violence, who have been led to discard 

 such beliefs through the instruction given at 

 the university. 



