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carbonates are next in rank, aggregating about 

 86,000 tons a year. 



The report of the commissioner of patents 

 for tbe fiscal year ending June 30, 1907, has 

 been issued. According to the abstract in the 

 Electrical World, there was filed a total of 

 66,795 applications, including 56,514 for me- 

 chanical patents; 816 for designs; 192 for re- 

 issues; 7,869 for registration of trade-marks; 

 982 for registration of labels and 422 for regis- 

 tration of prints. In addition to these appli- 

 cations, there were filed 1,900 caveats. There 

 were issued 33,644 mechanical patents; 529 

 design patents; 165 reissues; and there were 

 registered 8,798 trade-marks, 660 labels and 

 325 prints. The number of patents which 

 expired was 25,322, while 4,707 letters patent 

 were withheld for non-payment of the final 

 fees; 14,565 applications were allowed, and 

 awaiting the payment of the final fees. The 

 total receipts of the office from all sources 

 amounted to $1,859,592.89 for the fiscal year, 

 of which there were expended $1,584,489.70, 

 including $932,665.59 for salaries, leaving a 

 surplus of $275,103.19, turned into the United 

 States Treasury. The total net surplus of 

 receipts over expenditures in the Treasury to 

 the credit of the Patent Ofiice on January 1, 

 1908, was $6,706,181.64, an amount derived 

 entirely from the fees paid since 1837. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS 

 The graduate school of the University of 

 niinois was formally opened on February 4, 

 when President G. Stanley Hall, of Clark 

 University, made the opening address. This 

 was followed by an address by Dean West, 

 of Princeton University. The legislature of 

 Illinois'. has appropriated the sum of $50,000 a 

 year for the next two years for developing the 

 graduate school. This is said to be the fijst 

 appropriation specifically for graduate work 

 in a state university. 



Harvard University has established twenty- 

 five additional university scholarships of $150 

 each, to be assigned annually, to seniors of 

 high standing in Harvard and other colleges. 

 These scholarships are to be awarded for study 

 in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences 

 during the next academic year. 



Large public bequests are made by the will 

 of the late Miss Alice Byington, of Stock- 

 bridge, Mass., including $50,000 to the Tuske- 

 gee Institute and $160,000 to the Hampden 

 Normal and Agricultural School. 



A research fellowship in chemistry has 

 been founded by the trustees of Bryn Mawr 

 College and filled for this semester by the 

 appointment of Miss Mary Cloyd Burnley, a 

 former fellow, now of Vassar College. 



Manchester Unwersity is to receive £12,- 

 000 by way of special grant from the treasury 

 for the current year, instead of the reduced 

 sum of £10,000. 



The trustees of Columbia University have 

 revised the statutes so that after six years of 

 service a professor or adjunct professor may 

 have leave of absence for one half year with 

 full salary. Hitherto the statutes have per- 

 mitted a sabbatical year's leave of absence on 

 half salary. 



At Syracuse University Dr. John L. Hef- 

 fron has been appointed dean of the College 

 of Medicine to succeed the late Gaylord P. 

 Clark. 



Dr. Benjamin Migne Duggar, formerly of 

 Cornell, since 1902 professor of botany at the 

 University of Missouri, has returned to Ithaca 

 as professor of plant physiology in the State 

 College of Agriculture. 



Mr. W. S. Lozier, formerly instructor at 

 the Pennsylvania State College, has been ap- 

 pointed instructor in engineering in the 

 School of Applied Science of New York Uni- 

 versity. 



Mr. W. W. Wallace has been appointed 

 head of the department of applied mechanics 

 in Liverpool University. 



Mr. David K. Picken, M.A., chief assistant 

 to the professor of mathematics, Glasgow Uni- 

 versity, has been appointed professor of math- 

 ematics in Victoria College, Wellington, N. Z. 



Dr. E. Funter, doeent at Marburg, has 

 been appointed professor of mathematics at 

 Basel. 



Dr. L. Jost, acting professor in the Agri- 

 cultural Academy at Poppelsdorf, has been 

 appointed professor of botany at Strasburg. 



