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believed to come mainly from depths of 1,800 

 to 2,300 feet. Thus far most of the gas has 

 been put to local use. It furnishes the light, 

 fuel and power of practically all the cities and 

 raost of the farm communities and is exten- 

 sively used for fuel in drilling and pumping. 

 It also supplies the city of Parsons and its 

 numerous industrial plants east of the quad- 

 rangle. All this, however, forms but a small 

 percentage of the quantity consumed and to be 

 consumed by the manufacturing industries 

 which have grown out of this natural com- 

 modity. Of these industries the most im- 

 portant are those producing brick, tile, pot- 

 tery, glass, cement, zinc and lead. 



UmVERSITY AND BDVOATIONAL NEWS 

 A BILL is now before the legislature in which 

 provision is made for the erection at the Uni- 

 versity of Wisconsin of men's dormitories, 

 commons and union, and additional dormitory 

 accommodation for women. 



Mrs. William Thaw has given $50,000 to 

 the Westminster University of Denver. 



The Cavendish Laboratory Extension Syn- 

 dicate, Cambridge University, has proposed 

 plans for the new laboratory running along 

 Free School-lane, which will cost between 

 £Y,000 and £8,300. Towards defraying the 

 cost of this building there is available Lord 

 Eayleigh's gift of £5,000 out of the Nobel 

 prize, and Professor Thomson is able to find 

 £2,000 from the laboratory funds. 



Dr. a. Eoss Hill, of the University of 

 Missouri, has been elected professor of the 

 philosophy of education at Cornell University, 

 and will become dean of the faculty of arts 

 and sciences in succession to Professor Walter 

 r. WiUcox. 



Promotions in the scientific departments of 

 the University of Chicago have been made as 

 follows: Heinrich Maschke, to a professorship 

 in mathematics; Frank R. Lillie, to a pro- 

 fessorship in zoology; Robert R. Bensley, to 

 a professorship in anatomy; Edwin O. Jordan, 

 to a professorship in pathology and bacteriol- 

 ogy; Leonard E. Dickson, to an associate pro- 

 fessorship in mathematics; Charles R. Mann, 



to an associate professorship in physics; 

 Robert A. MiUikan, to an associate professor- 

 ship in physics; Henry G. Gale, to an assistant 

 professorship in physics; Lauder W. Jones, to 

 an assistant professorship in chemistry; Wil- 

 liam L. Tower, to an assistant professorship 

 in zoology; Charles J. Chamberlain, to an 

 assistant professorship in botany; Henry C. 

 Cowles, to an assistant professorship in bot- 

 any; Howard T. Ricketts, to an assistant pro- 

 fessorship in pathology and bacteriology; 

 Norman M. Harris, to an assistant professor- 

 ship in pathology and bacteriology. 



At Cornell University Hermann Diedrichs 

 has been advanced to a professorship of ex- 

 perimental engineering and Dr. Ernest Albee 

 to a professorship of philosophy. 



Dr. Thomas L. Watson, professor of geol- 

 ogy in the Virginia Polytechnic Institute, has 

 accepted the professorship of economic geol- 

 ogy in the University of Virginia. 



Dr. Albert Ernest Jenks has been pro- 

 moted to the position of professor of anthro- 

 pology in the University of Minnesota. 



Mr. Gregory D. Walcott, PLD. (Colum- 

 bia), of Blackburn College, has been elected 

 professor of philosophy in Hamline Univer- 

 sity. 



At the University of Wisconsin promotions 

 from assistants to instructors have been made 

 as follows: Lawrence Martin, geology; G. M. 

 Reed, botany; Margaret Schaffner, political 

 science; James Milward, horticulture; Conrad 

 Hoffman, agricultural bacteriology; O. L. Ko- 

 walke, chemical engineering; E. W. Lawrence, 

 hydraulic engineering. New assistants were 

 appointed as follows: Hally D. M. Jolivette, 

 botany; H. B. Sanford, electrical engineering; 

 K. O. Burrer, electrical engineering; L. B. 

 Aldrich, J. H. Baker, D. S. Dye, W. E. 

 Forsythe, O. H. Gaarden, H. J. Plagge, W. 

 F. Steve, all physics ; Matthew Michels, butter 

 and cheese scoring; A. B. Sutherland, phi- 

 losophy. 



Dr. N. Aoh, decent for psychology at Mar- 

 burg, has been called to the chair of philos- 

 ophy at Marburg. 



