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discussion contained in his advanced lectures 

 of this year on the high voltage alternating 

 transmission and utilization of power. Pro- 

 fessor Jackson's lectures for graduate stu- 

 dents on the organization and administration 

 of public service companies have this year 

 dealt more particularly with questions of 

 value of plant, the theory of so-called intang- 

 ible values, the relation of revenues to value 

 of the plant, depreciation, and the like; and 

 next year the lectures will be directed more to 

 the theory underlying methods of charging 

 for service by public service companies, with 

 particular reference to charges for electric 

 light and power, but with collateral considera- 

 tion of railroad and tramway charges and 

 charges for gas and the service of other public 

 utilities. Professor Wickenden will give a 

 course of lectures on illumination, photom- 

 etry and illuminating engineering which will 

 become a part of the optional curriculum for 

 undergraduate and graduate students. 



Mr. L. L. Hutchison, assistant director of 

 the Oklahoma Geological Survey, has sent to 

 press a special state report on the asphalt, oil 

 and gas deposits of Oklahoma. In part one 

 is a general map which shows that portion of 

 the state in which asphalt occurs and the 

 region where it is likely to be found. It also 

 contains a geological map of the asphalt bear- 

 ing district, and one showing the exact loca- 

 tion of nearly one hundred known deposits. 

 Part two is devoted to oil and gas. After re- 

 viewing the history of the industry and dis- 

 cussing the various theories of origin and 

 accumulation of petroleum and natural gas, 

 Mr. Hutchison discusses the geology of the 

 Oklahoma petroleum and natural gas fields 

 and closes the work with a chapter devoted to 

 the latest Oklahoma statistics and a review 

 of past and present conditions in the field. 

 This section of the report is illustrated by a 

 general map showing the present developed 

 areas, probable territory yet undeveloped, and 

 those parts of the state where it seems pos- 

 sible that oil and gas may be found and by a 

 geological map of the oil fields and detailed 

 maps, on a scale of one inch to the mile, 

 which give the location of every well drilled 

 in the various important fields prior to 1910. 



The Connecticut Agricultural College and 

 the Willimantic State Normal School will 

 hold their summer schools in the buildings of 

 the State Agricultural College at Storrs, 

 Conn., July 5-July 29, 1910. The Agricul- 

 tural College ofi'ers courses in bird and insect 

 study, botany, dairy industry, animal hus- 

 bandry, school gardening, fruit culture, flori- 

 culture, landscape gardening, soils, farm 

 crops, practical cooking, a special four-weeks' 

 course in practical poultry husbandry, and a 

 course in elementary agriculture with a 

 model country school showing how agricul- 

 ture may actually be taught in the schools. 

 The Normal School offers courses for teachers 

 in arithmetic, civics, geography, history, lan- 

 guage, methods in rural schools, penmanship, 

 psychology and reading. 



Professor J. "W. H. Trail, F.E.S., recently 

 offered to the council of the Linnean Society 

 a sum of money for the purpose of encourag- 

 ing the study of protoplasm by means of an 

 award to be made periodically, and, as we 

 learn from Nature, a special medal has been 

 struck in bronze for presentation with the 

 award, bearing on the obverse a portrait of 

 Linnaeus and on the reverse the words " Trail 

 Award" and the name of the recipient in a 

 wreath. It is proposed to make an award 

 about once in every five years for original 

 work bearing directly or indirectly upon the 

 "physical basis of life," and, in accordance 

 with the wishes of the donor, a wide interpre- 

 tation will be given to the scope of the in- 

 vestigations. The first recipient of the award 

 will be Professor E. A. Minehin, professor of 

 protozoology in the University of London, 

 whose researches on sponges and protozoa 

 have done so much to advance our knowledge 

 of protoplasmic structures, and who is also 

 the translator of Professor Biitschli's well- 

 known work on protoplasm. 



VNIVER8ITT AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS 

 More than $2,000,000 has been contributed 

 to Washington University, St. Louis, for 

 the medical department. The donors are 

 Messrs. William K. Bixby, Adolphus Busch, 

 Edward Mallinkrodt and Eobert S. Brookings. 

 Added to this are the resources of Barnes 



