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the price of zinc, but since the outbreak of 

 the European war it has reached more than 

 20 cents a pound, a price higher than that of 

 aluminum. During the six years from 1908 

 to 1913, inclusive, the price of Cookson's anti- 

 mony ranged from 7.45 to 10.31 cents a pound, 

 and the yearly averages ranged from 8.24 to 

 8.58 cents a pound. Much of the time during 

 the present year the price has been still lower, 

 and toward the end of July it was quoted as 

 7 to 7.10 cents. Other brands have ranged 

 from 0.25 to 1.25 cents lower. As has been 

 pointed out in the United States Geological 

 Survey's reports, at these prices antimony ores 

 can not be worked profitably under the high 

 labor costs prevailing in the mining regions of 

 the United States unless the deposits are very 

 large and advantageously situated. No de- 

 posits of antimony ores have been found in 

 the United States which entirely fulfill these 

 conditions, and as a result practically all the 

 antimony metal used here is imported from 

 European smelters, mostly from England. 

 The ores for these smelters come largely from 

 China, Mexico, France and Austria. So long 

 as the war exists and especially so long as sea 

 traffic is disturbed, the production will be cur- 

 tailed and prices raised, for the use of anti- 

 mony in type metals and especially in bearing 

 metals is fixed and will continue. Other 

 uses, such as the making of cofEn trimmings, 

 which consume a surprisingly large quantity 

 of antimony and from which there is no secon- 

 dary recovery, might conceivably turn to 

 aluminum or other metals as substitutes. In 

 the United States deposits of stibnite (anti- 

 mony sulphide) near Gilham, Ark.; Battle 

 Mountain, Lovelocks and Austin, Nev. ; Burke 

 and Kingston, Idaho; Tonasket, Okanogan 

 County, Wash. ; Graniteville and San Emigdio 

 Canyon, Cal.; Antimony, Utah; Eed Bridge, 

 Ore., and other places are potentially produc- 

 tive in times of prices as high as those now 

 prevailing. A greater benefit than the tempo- 

 rary operation of the mines would probably 

 accrue to this country from the establishment 

 of smelters which would import and smelt 

 Chinese, South American, Canadian and Mex- 

 ican antimony ores. At present the only reg- 



ular antimony smelting in this country is done 

 by a smelter which is said to be a branch of 

 an English smelter. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS 



Professoe Alexander Konig, of Bonn, has 

 presented to the University at Bonn the zo- 

 ological museum and laboratory which he has 

 erected, to be called the Alexander Konig Mu- 

 seum. The collections are valued at a million 

 Marks. 



It may be noted that it was planned to open 

 the new university at Frankfort-on-the-Main 

 October 18 in the presence of the German em- 

 peror. 



The Eoyal School of Mines in Freiburg, 

 Saxony, said to be the oldest school of tech- 

 nology, will celebrate the hundred and fiftieth 

 anniversary of its foundation in July, 1915. 



At Syracuse University, college of medi- 

 cine, a course in pathology was offered during 

 the summer. The course opened on June 15, 

 and continued for six weeks. It was open to 

 both graduates and undergraduates in medi- 

 cine. There were daily sessions covering the 

 entire day. 



Professor T. G. Eogers, of the New Mex- 

 ico Normal School, of Silver City, has been 

 elected professor of mathematics and assistant 

 dean of the Normal University of New Mexico, 

 at East Las "Vegas. 



Dr. O. C. Geuner, assistant professor of 

 pathology at McGill University, has resigned 

 and returned to England. 



Dr. Ludwig BiJRCHNEE, of Munich, has been 

 called to the chair of geography at the Univer- 

 sity of Athens. 



DISCUSSION AND COBBESPONDENCE 



A NOTE ON DISTINCTION OF THE SEXES IN 

 PHRYNOSOMA 



A SDRPEisiNGLY Small amount of knowledge 

 concerning the embryology and development 

 of the Iguanidse has been collected. One rea- 

 son for this is the fact that, for most forms, 

 there is no reliable method of distinguishing 

 the sexes by external characters. This is par- 



