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SCIENCE 



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tributed Lis twenty-fourth paper to their 

 transactions. Their members could be found 

 all over the world, and included men of all 

 nationalities. Mr. E. St. George Moore pro- 

 posed the toast of ' Kindred Institutions,' for 

 which Dr. Glazebrook responded, and the toast 

 of ' Our Guests ' was submitted by Mr. J. W. 

 Wilson and acknowledged by Mr. Maurice 

 Fitzmaurice. 



In 1905 the total value of our mineral pro- 

 duction was $1,623,877,127, as compared with 

 $1,360,883,554 in 1904. As heretofore, iron 

 and coal are the most important of our 

 mineral products. The value of the iron in 

 1905 was $382,450,000; the value of the coal, 

 $476,756,963. The fuels increased from $584,- 

 043,236 in 1904 to $602,477,217 in 1905, a gain 

 of $18,433,981, or 3.16 per cent. Anthracite 

 coal showed an increase in value of $2,904,- 

 980 from $138,974,020 in 1904 to $141,879,000 

 in 1905. The increase in value of the bitumi- 

 nous coal output over 1904 was $29,480,962, a 

 combined increase in value of coal of $32,- 

 385,942 in 1905, or 7.3 per cent. The gain of 

 $262,993,573 in the total value of mineral pro- 

 duction is due to gains in both metallic and 

 non-metallic products, the metallic products 

 showing an increase from $501,099,950 in 1904 

 to $702,453,108 in 1905, a gain of $201,353,158, 

 and the non-metallic products showing an in- 

 crease from $859,383,604 in 1904 to $921,- 

 024,019 in 1905, a gain of $61,640,415. To 

 these products should be added estimated un- 

 specified products, including molybdenum, bis- 

 muth, tungsten, and other mineral products, 

 valued at $400,000, making the total mineral 

 production for 1905 of $1,623,877,127. Be- 

 sides the usual table and summary of quanti- 

 ties and values of the country's mineral out- 

 put by products, the volume contains this 

 year, for the first time, a summary, in tabu- 

 lated form, of the value of the mineral 

 products by States. These tables were com- 

 piled by Mr. Wm. Taylor Thom. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS 

 New York Univeesity has received a gift 

 of about fifteen acres of land adjoining the 



south line of its groimds and extending 

 towards 180th Street. The value of the 

 property is said to be between $200,000 and 

 $300,000. 



Mr. Andrew Carnegie has given to the Col- 

 lege of Physicians of Philadelphia $100,000 

 towards the erection of its new building, on 

 condition that a like sum be subscribed, of 

 which $80,000 has already been received. 



The department of archeology of the Uni- 

 versity of Pennsylvania has received a gift 

 of $40,000 from Mr. Eckley Brinton Coxe, Jr. 

 The donor has specified that of the gift $8,600 

 a year shall be paid for five years to the new 

 curator of the department of Egyptology, 

 Dr. D. Eandall Mclver, who is now in Egypt, 

 where he has been instructed to begin excava- 

 tions. 



We learn from Nature that Gonville and 

 Caius College, Cambridge University, having 

 decided to close their chemical laboratory at 

 the end of the present academic year, a syndi- 

 cate was appointed on November 8 to consider 

 the assignment of a site for the extension of 

 the chemical laboratory. The conclusion ar- 

 rived at is that, of the sites available, the one 

 site which is not liable to considerable objec- 

 tion lies between the chemical laboratory and 

 the new medical schools, with a frontage next 

 Pembroke Street. 



The University of Turin celebrated on Oc- 

 tober 27 the five hundredth anniversary of- its 

 foundation, this celebration having been post- 

 poned for two years, owing to the disastrous 

 fire. In honor of the occasion a history of 

 the university has been published. 



Dr. Willum a. Notes, head of the de- 

 partment of chemistry in the Bureau of 

 Standards, and secretary and editor of the 

 American Chemical Society, has been elected 

 professor of chemistry in the University of 

 Illinois. 



The council of King's College, London, has 

 appointed Mr. H. de Sadow Pittard, M.A., 

 Ph.D., as assistant lecturer in mathematics, 

 and Mr. A. W. Sikes, D.Sc, M.D., F.E.C.S., 

 as demonstrator in physiology. 



