Apbil 8, 1910] 



SCIENCE 



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geology of North Dakota as a -whole, on nat- 

 ural gas and on good roads. Previous re- 

 ports of the Survey have described the exten- 

 sive and valuable clays and lignites of the 

 state, the fourth report being devoted entirely 

 to the clays, particularly the high grade fire 

 and pottery clays. Last summer the geology 

 and natural resources of the area comprised in 

 the Bismarck quadrangle was investigated by 

 the State Geological Survey in cooperation 

 with the United States Geological Survey. 

 These two surveys are also cooperating in the 

 collection of data regarding the deep wells of 

 the state, and this work will be pushed as 

 rapidly as possible. During the coming sum- 

 mer the study and mapping of the geological 

 formations of south-central North Dakota 

 will be continued, and work will also be under- 

 taken on the physiography and geology of the 

 interesting Devils Lake region. 



It is stated in Nature that the director of 

 the British Meteorological Office has given 

 notice that from April 1 forecasts of the 

 weather prospects more than twenty-four 

 hours ahead will be issued as opportunity is 

 afforded. Applications have been received at 

 the Meteorological Office from time to time 

 for forecasts of weather several days in ad- 

 vance, in addition to, or instead of, the usual 

 forecasts which refer to the twenty-four hours 

 reckoned from the noon or midnight following 

 the issue of the forecasts. According to the 

 experience of the Meteorological office, the 

 weather conditions do not usually justify a 

 forecast detailing the changes of weather for 

 consecutive days. There are a number of oc- 

 casions in the course of the year when the 

 distribution of pressure is typical of settled 

 weather, and also occasions when the condi- 

 tions are characteristic of continued unsettled 

 weather. On these occasions, and on a few 

 others when the sequence of the weather is of 

 a recognized type, a sentence giving in gen- 

 eral terms the outlook beyond the twenty-four 

 hours of the definite forecast might be useful 

 to the general public, and, as it could be 

 justified by the statement of definite reasons 

 for the inference, it would come within the 

 general rules laid down by the office with ref- 



erence to the issue of forecasts. An indica- 

 tion of the general prospect extending beyond 

 the twenty-four hours' limit is frequently 

 given in the " General Inference " which pre- 

 cedes the forecasts for the several districts on 

 the sheet issued to newspapers. It is expressed 

 in more or less technical language, and the 

 application to the several districts might only 

 be followed by persons acquainted with the 

 terminology used in weather study. It is pro- 

 posed, therefore, when the meteorological con- 

 ditions permit, to supplement the forecasts 

 for districts by a remark on the further out- 

 look. 



VNIVEESITT AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS 



Among recent endowments to the New 

 York Polyclinic Medical School and Hospital, 

 the first post-graduate medical school in the 

 United States, are one of $250,000 by Mr. 

 William P. Clyde, and another of $125,000 by 

 Mrs. Helen Hartley Jenkins. 



Me. Andrew Carnegie has given $40,000 to 

 Wells College for the building of a library to 

 be called the Frances Cleveland Library in 

 honor of Mrs. Grover Cleveland, who is a 

 graduate of the college. 



The main building of the Texas Christian 

 University has been destroyed by fire, entail- 

 ing a loss of $125,000. 



President Noble has issued a formal an- 

 nouncement of the fact that, by order of the 

 board of trustees and by act of the General 

 Assembly of Maryland, the corporate name of 

 the Woman's College of Baltimore has been 

 changed to Goucher College. 



In the Medical School of the University of 

 Pennsylvania Dr. Alonzo E. Taylor, now of 

 the University of California, will become pro- 

 fessor of physiological chemistry; Dr. Henry 

 T. Eicketts, of Chicago University, will oc- 

 cupy the chair of pathology, and Dr. Richard 

 M. Pearce, of Albany, will be professor of ex- 

 perimental medicine. Dr. Allen J. Smith, 

 while retaining his position as dean of the 

 school, will be transferred to a chair of com- 

 parative pathology and be at the head of the 

 courses in tropical medicine. 



