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It resembles the latter in having a high pro- 

 portion of the more volatile compounds and a 

 paraffin base and in containing almost no 

 sulphur. The Bering Eiver coal, which comes 

 from a field 12 to 25 miles inland from Con- 

 troller Bay, is the best that has yet been found 

 on the Pacific coast of North America. The 

 coal area, as far as known, is restricted to the 

 region north of Bering Lake and Bering 

 Eiver. It includes about 120 square miles. 

 The physical properties of the coal are very 

 much alike in all the seams and in all parts of 

 the field visited by Mr. Martin. The coal 

 resembles the harder bituminous coals of the 

 east more than it does anthracite. It is 

 doubtful, too, whether much of ^he coal could 

 be sized so as to compete with anthracite coal 

 for domestic use; and again, under ordinary 

 handling it will probably crush to almost the 

 same extent as the harder grades of semi- 

 bituminous coal. That will not, of course, 

 impair its value for steam purposes, but will 

 necessitate careful handling if it is to com- 

 pete with Pennsylvania or Welsh anthracite 

 as a domestic fuel. The illustrations that 

 accompany the report include geologic recon- 

 naissance maps of the Controller Bay region 

 and Cook Inlet oil field and sketch maps of 

 the Cold Bay and Cape Taktag petroleum 

 fields, as well as an outline map showing the 

 general location of the oil fields and the areas 

 represented on the large-scale maps. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS. 

 Mr. John D. Eockefeller has given $1,000,- 

 000 to Yale University; other large gifts have 

 been made towards the endowment fund of the 

 university, the details of which have not been 

 announced. 



Mr. Stephen Moody Crosby, Dartmouth, 

 '49, of Boston, has given $50,000 to the col- 

 lege toward the building fund. It was planned 

 to raise $250,000 for this purpose, and Mr. 

 Crosby's contribution completes that amount. 



At a meeting of the board of trustees of the 

 Iowa State College on June 7 at Ames, it 

 was voted to confer the degree of bachelor of 

 agricultural engineering on students who com- 

 plete a prescribed course in this subject. Grad- 



uates of either engineering or agricultural 

 courses are eligible after the completion of 

 one year's advanced work. The Iowa State 

 College is the first institution in America to 

 organize comprehensive instruction in this line 

 and prepare tp confer the degree. Porty-nine 

 agricultural students were graduated at Ames 

 from the four year course in animal hus- 

 bandry, agronomy, dairying and horticulture 

 in the last class, including five who took ad- 

 vanced degrees. 



Professor E. H. Moore, of the University 

 of Chicago, and Professor J. Mark Baldwin, 

 of the Johns Hopkins University, are giving 

 courses of lectures on mathematics and psy- 

 chology, respectively, in the summer school 

 of the Uriiversity of California. 



The following appointments in the Sheffield 

 Scientific School, Yale University, have been 

 announced: assistant professor. Dr. Henry 

 Andrew Bumstead, physics; instructors. Dr. 

 Frank Bell Underbill, physiological chemis- 

 try; Mr. Beverly W. Kunkel, biology; Dr. 

 Oliver C. Lester, physics; assistants in in- 

 struction, Mr. Clarence C. Perry, steam en- 

 gine; Mr. Haroutune M. Dadourian, physics; 

 Mr. William A. Lilley, Jr., descriptive geom- 

 etry and drawing. 



Dr. K. E. Guthe, associate physicist at the 

 National Bureau of Standards,, has been ap- 

 pointed professor of physics and head of the 

 department of physics at the State University 

 of Iowa. 



Frederick C. Newcombe has been appointed 

 professor of botany and Charles A. Davis, 

 curator of the herbarium, at the University of 

 Michigan. 



Mr. Alexander Jay Wurts has received the 

 first appointment to the faculty of the Car- 

 negie Technical Schools, Pittsburg, that of 

 professor and head of department of applied 

 electricity. 



M. W. Blaokman, Ph.D. (Harvard, 1905), 

 has been made instructor in comparative anat- 

 omy and embryology in the medical depart- 

 ment of Western Eeserve University. 



Forrest Shreve, Ph.D., has been appointed 

 Adams Bruce fellow at the Johns Hopkins 

 University. 



