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sion 5 of the section were referred to Dr. W. 

 H. Dall, -who reports that " One resembles 

 Unio onariotes Mayer from the Kenai forma- 

 tion, another Anadonta athlios Mayer of the 

 same beds, but they are probably not identical. 

 The beds are probably Oligocene or upper 

 Eocene, like those of Kenai." Considerable 

 interest attaches to these fossils in connection 

 with their bearing on the distribution in 

 Tertiary times of the Naiades, a group repre- 

 sented in the present streams and lakes of 

 lower latitudes in North America by several 

 hundred species. 



Maddern" and McConnell' have reported two 

 basins similar to the Coleen, but larger, higher 

 up thej Porcupine a short distance east of the 

 international boundary. One of these has an 

 approximate length of 100 miles and a width 

 of 60 miles. No fossils were obtained by Mc- 

 Connell from these upper basins, but the de- 

 scription which he gives of the beds exposed, 

 corresponds so closely to the sections observed 

 by the writer, that it is highly probable that 

 the age of the beds in the basins on the two 

 sides of the boundary is the same. MeOon- 

 nell' expressed a similar opinion concerning 

 the equivalence of the beds in question, but 

 presented no paleontologic evidence of the age 

 of the beds in either of the basins which he 

 described. 



E. M. Kindle 

 U. S. Geological Sukvet, 

 Washington, D. C. 

 February 26, 1907 



QUOTATIONS 



THE university OF MAINE 



The movement to remand the State Uni- 

 versity of Maine to its original purpose of an 

 agricultural college and school of mechanic 

 arts has failed. The University has expanded 

 with a college of liberal arts and has been 

 giving . the bachelor's degree, and this the 

 senior colleges of liberal arts in the State, 

 Bowdoin, Bates and Colby, consider to be 

 crowding an already overstocked market for 



'Smithsonian Misc. Coll., Vol. 49, 1905, p. 14. 



'Ann. Eept. Geol. Nat. Hist. Surv. Canada, n. 

 ser.. Vol. 4, 1890, p. 128. 



'Ihid., pp. 128, 132. 



higher education. Consequently, when the 

 University came to the Legislature this year 

 for an appropriation equal to two fifths of a 

 mill to the valuation of the State, or about 

 $150,000 a year, with a backing of the ma- 

 jority report of a committee appointed by the 

 last Legislature, and then accepted as a sub- 

 stitute for this an appropriation of $65,000 a 

 year for two years and $90,000 for new build- 

 ings, the three colleges appealing to the com- 

 mittee of the Legislature on the subject, 

 united under the leadership of President 

 Hyde, had attached to the appropriation as a 

 condition the discontinuance of the Uni- 

 versity's courses leading to the B. A. degree. 

 In the House this amendment to the appro- 

 priation was defeated by the cyclonic vote of 

 123 to 12. In the Senate, however (which had 

 made a special investigation with a recess 

 committee of the whole subject), the vote was 

 much closer, being, in fact, only 17 to 13 in 

 favor of the University's retention of the 

 right to confer the B. A. degree * * * . 



In the heat of the debate the dignity of the 

 university and the quality of its scholarship 

 have been sometimes rather roughly used. 

 The statement made by President Hyde and 

 repeated by ex-Senator Potter of Brunswick, 

 an overseer of Bowdoin, that the liberal arts 

 courses at the University of Maine are in- 

 ferior to those of the other three colleges is 

 pretty well disposed of by the statistical facts 

 that there are eleven professors at the uni- 

 versity holding doctor's degrees conferred by 

 the highest institutions of learning at home 

 and abroad, including Harvard, Johns Hop- 

 kins and Cornell in this country and Berlin 

 and Heidelberg universities, a total greater 

 than is found in the faculties of the other 

 three colleges together. Mr. Carnegie, it is 

 believed for the first time, gave the university 

 last year the money for a library building 

 absolutely without conditions, and by energy, 

 thrift and the use of local materials, almost 

 given to the university, a building has been 

 erected for his $55,000 equal in appearance, it 

 is said, to one costing twice as much. Evi- 

 dently this sturdy young growth from the 

 Federal land grant known as the Morrill edu- 

 cation fund is past all danger of being up- 



