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they are surrounded. The report on these 

 deposits was made by L. C. Graton. In Bear 

 Lake County, Idaho, copper deposits occur 

 near Montpelier. Here however, they are 

 mostly carbonate and not sulphide ores. Their 

 value has not yet been definitely proved, nor 

 is their extent known. The chief project for 

 their development is the Bonanza shaft, which 

 has gone down 350 feet but has not yet shipped 

 ore. Shales, stained green, maroon and choco- 

 late by iron, abound in the region, the colors 

 mimicking those of copper stains and mislead- 

 ing the prospector, who supposes that their 

 vivid tints are indications of copper. The 

 ores run only about 2 per cent, but may be 

 made to pay by proper treatment. The de- 

 posits are described by H. S. Gale. Near 

 South Mountain, Pennsylvania, copper in the 

 shape of blebs, grains and wires is associated 

 with ancient lavas, particularly with the green- 

 stone that is so widespread in that region. 

 Traces of copper are found for eight miles, 

 from the Gettysburg pike to a point beyond 

 the Maryland state line. Most of the prospects 

 are at stream crossings, where the overlying 

 rocks have been worn away. The copper was 

 brought up from the interior of the earth with 

 the lava but was then very finely disseminated 

 through the mass and was worthless. Later it 

 was concentrated in veins by hot circulating 

 waters, which dissolved it and later redepos- 

 ited it on the walls of cavities and in other 

 places. These deposits, which are described 

 by G. W. Stose, have been known for seventy 

 years but have not yet proved to be commer- 

 cially important. Systematic search, however, 

 might reveal valuable deposits. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS 

 rEEDERICK W. DOOLITTLE, B.S. (C.E.) 1907, 



instructor in civil engineering in the Univer- 

 sity of Colorado, has been appointed assistant 

 professor of mechanical engineering at the 

 University of Wisconsin. 



Dr. E. T. Bell, formerly of the University 

 of Missouri, has begun his duties as assistant 

 professor of anatomy in the University of 

 Minnesota. 



Dh. Alexander Petrunkevitch, honorary 

 curator in the American Museum of Natural 



History, has been appointed instructor in 

 zoology in the SheiSeld Scientific School of 

 Yale University. 



E. G. Peterson, Ph.D. (Cornell), has been 

 appointed professor of bacteriology in the 

 Oregon Agricultural College. At the same 

 institution Mr. William E. Lawrence has been 

 appointed instructor in botany. 



Mr. John E. Gutberlet, assistant in biol- 

 ogy at the University of Colorado, has ac- 

 cepted a position in the biological department 

 of the University of Illinois. 



DISCUSSION AND CORRESPONDENCE 



\ PRACTICAL nomenclature 



Dr. Needham's proposal' to use numbers in 

 place of specific names in zoology fills me with 

 astonishment. Granting that the problems of 

 nomenclature are at bottom problems of psy- 

 chology, what can be said in defense of a 

 number-system as against one of names? 

 Every man, woman and child in the world, 

 with rare exceptions, I suppose, has a name. 

 Every town or village has a name. Imagine 

 that instead, we were all numbered, and that 

 in order for this communication to reach the 

 editor I had to write upon the envelope 21,560, 

 A 493, X 2. Is that easier to remember than 

 the customary address ? Does it call up 

 pleasanter thoughts? Garrison-on-Hudson, if 

 it does consist of three words and sixteen 

 letters, is pleasing and suggestive; were it 

 twice as long I would not exchange it for 

 a group of numbers. Even Tin Cup and 

 Hell Gate, places in Colorado, have names 

 which are suggestive and interesting, far bet- 

 ter than, say 206 and 508. It is true that 

 some names are unfortunate, but even the 

 worst have a certain individuality, and with 

 the authors indicated recall to us something 

 of zoological history, often of romance. 



Take the very list given by Dr. Needham. 

 What must be the condition of a man's mind, 

 if he thinks that numbers are a good exchange 

 for harhara, sponsa, nympha, forcipata, dryas 

 and the rest? What a fine century of ento- 

 mological effort is called to our mind as we 

 run over the names of Fabricius, Charpentier, 



' Science, September 2, p. 295 et seq. 



