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SCIENCE 



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against this disease; and Pennsylvania is the 

 first state to undertake these methods on a 

 large scale. 



The Association of American Geographers 

 ■will publish, beginning with this year, an 

 annual volume to be known as the Annals of 

 the Association. This will be devoted to the 

 most important scientific papers presented at 

 the anual meeting. The publication will be 

 managed by a committee composed of Mr. 

 Alfred H. Brooks, of the U. S. Geological 

 Survey; Professor Henry C. Cowles, Univer- 

 sity of Chicago; Professor Ealph S. Tarr, 

 Cornell University, and Professor Richard E. 

 Dodge, Teachers' College, Columbia Univer- 

 sity. 



The British Medical Journal reports that 

 the principal centers in India in which plague 

 occurred during 1910, and the deaths conse- 

 quent thereupon, were as follows : Bombay 

 Presidency, 36,831; Bengal, 30,546; United 

 Provinces, 144,266; Punjab, 143,416; Central 

 Provinces, 42,104; Eajputana, 37,657; Burma, 

 7,605. The following are the most recent gen- 

 eral statistics: October 22 to 31, 1910, 5,641; 

 November, 26,189; December, 39,604. Total 

 deaths, 71,434, making, with deaths, July to 

 October 22, 20,828, total for half year, July to 

 December, 92,262. During the first six months 

 of 1910 the deaths numbered 360,632. Total 

 deaths during 1910, 452,894. It would appear 

 that the recrudescence of plague in 1911 has 

 begun in a more virulent form than in 1910. 

 In January, 1911, the deaths from plagiie in 

 India numbered 75,468. This is a higher fig- 

 ure than in 1910, when in January the deaths 

 amounted to 51,437. 



VNIVEBSITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS 



By the will of Henry F. Dimmock, of New 

 York, Tale University will receive about 

 $100,000 and under certain contingencies will 

 receive twice this amount. 



In addition to the regular course in general 

 surveying, the School of Mines of the Univer- 

 sity of Arizona will start this year a summer 

 school of mine surveying lasting through the 

 month of June. This course, which will cover 

 the details of underground surveying, the con- 



struction of stope plans and other allied sub- 

 jects, will be conducted by Mr. Eugene E. 

 Eice, engineer of the Hite Gold Mines, city 

 engineer of Wickenburgh, etc. The work will 

 be done in one of the numerous mines near 

 Prescott, Arizona. 



Dk. Arthue H. Wilde, who has been con- 

 nected with Northwestern University, Evans- 

 ton, Ul., since 1892 and has been secretary 

 of the university council since 1909, has ac- 

 cepted the presidency of the University of 

 Arizona, at Tucson, and will take up his 

 duties there on May 1. 



Dean Juliet Greek, professor of domestic 

 science and art of the Oregon Agricultural 

 College, announces her resignation from the 

 position which she has held for three years, 

 the resignation to take effect the coming July. 



ElCHARD SWANN LULL, B.S., M.S. (Eut- 



gers), Ph.D. (Columbia), assistant professor of 

 vertebrate paleontology in Tale College and 

 associate curator in the Peabody Museum, 

 was made professor of vertebrate paleontology 

 in Tale University at the corporation meeting 

 of April 17. At the same meeting Dr. George 

 Grant MacCurdy was appointed assistant pro- 

 fessor of archeology. He is secretary of the 

 American Anthropological Association and of 

 Section H of the American Association for 

 the Advancement of Science. 



New appointments and promotions at Stan- 

 ford University for the academic year begin- 

 ning August 1, 1911, are as follows : 

 New Appointments: 



Noah F. Drake, associate professor of economic 

 geology. Dr. Drake is a graduate, A.B., A.M. 

 and Ph.D., of Stanford University; professor of 

 geology and mining in Imperial Pei Yang Univer- 

 sity, Tientsin, China, since 1898. 



Mr. Henry V. Poor, instructor in graphic art. 

 Mr. Poor received his A.B. degree at Stanford,. 

 1910, and is -now studying abroad. 



Mr. Jesse B. Sears, instructor in education- 

 Mr. Sears received the A.B. degree at Stanford,, 

 1909; now instructor in the University of Wis- 

 consin. 



Mr. Harry J. Sears, Stanford, A.B., 1910, in- 

 structor in chemistry. 



Miss Alice E. Berger, Stanford, A.B., 1908, act- 

 ing instructor in chemistry. 



