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mation. In response to specific inquiries ad- 

 dressed to the director of the survey at Wash- 

 ington, concerning the location of mines of 

 any kind tributary to any particular market, 

 extracts can be furnished from this list. The 

 list is not a published one, as it includes about 

 90,000 names and addresses of producers and is 

 constantly being revised, the changes each year 

 amounting to 25 per cent, of the list. It can 

 be largely utilized, however, in reply to in- 

 quiries from consumers of mineral products. 



We learn from the report in Nature that 

 the Museums Association celebrated the com- 

 pletion of a quarter of a century's existence 

 at its recent meeting in Swansea. The at- 

 tendance was large, and the papers dealt in a 

 practical way with the preservation and resto- 

 ration of works of art — a subject which has 

 never previously received so much attention 

 at an annual conference. Representatives 

 were sent by forty provincial museums and 

 art galleries, five national museums (the Brit- 

 ish Museum, the British Museum of Natural 

 History, the Victoria and Albert Museum, 

 the National Museum of Wales, and the Mu- 

 seum of the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew), 

 and the London County Council. The presi- 

 dential chair was occupied by Mr. Charles 

 Madeley, director of the Warrington Muni- 

 cipal Museum, who in his address invited the 

 conference to consider " What is the true 

 theory of a municipal museum ? " 



We learn from the New York Medical 

 Journal that the U. S. Senate has passed the 

 amended Harrison bill, under which every 

 person who produces, imports, manufactures, 

 combines, deals in, disposes of, sells, or gives 

 away opium or coca leaves or any combination 

 thereof, or salt or derivative thereof, is re- 

 quired to register annually with the collector of 

 internal revenue, paying a fee of one dollar 

 for registration. This is the measure which 

 had already been passed by the House of 

 Representatives. It is believed that the House 

 will agree to the amendments introduced by 

 the Senate and in that case the measure will 

 no doubt be promptly passed and soon become 

 a law. This bill is a modification of the meas- 

 ure originally drawn up by Dr. Hamilton 



Wright, commissioner of the United States 

 to the International Opium Congress. The 

 underlying principle is that through the regis- 

 tration of all who are legally entitled to handle 

 these drugs, it will be possible to prevent 

 illegal interstate traffic. This law will supple- 

 ment the various local laws and through its 

 operation the authorities of the several states 

 expect to be able materially to curtail, if they 

 can not wholly do away with illegal traffic. 

 The measure has been objected to on the 

 ground that it requires the registration of 

 physicians with the internal revenue depart- 

 ment. A clause in the law unfortunately per- 

 mits the sale without registration of domestic 

 and proprietary remedies, containing so-called 

 small quantities of opium and its derivatives. 



UNIVEBSITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS 



The twenty-fifth anniversary of the opening 

 of the Johns Hopkins Hospital, the twenty- 

 first anniversary of the opening of the medical 

 school, the second reunion of the alumni of 

 the medical school and the first general re- 

 union of the alunmi of the training school for 

 nurses, will be made the occasion of an elabo- 

 rate celebration at the hospital, which will 

 open October 5 and continue throughout the 

 week. In connection with the celebration the 

 annual Herter lectures will be given by Dr. 

 Thomas Lewis of University College, London. 



The following gifts to Oberlin College are 

 announced : $50,000 from Dr. D. P. Allen and 

 J. L. Severance, of Cleveland, for completing 

 the new art building; $50,000 from Charles 

 M. Hall, of Niagara Falls, for the improve- 

 ment of the campus; an anonymous gift of 

 $7,500 for furnishing the new administration 

 building, erected at a cost of $69,500; $25,000 

 for a new organ in Finney Memorial Chapel, 

 the joint gift of Frederick N. Finney, of South 

 Pasadena, California, and G. M. Hall, of 

 Niagara Falls. The trustees have approved 

 the budget appropriation for 1914—15, amount- 

 ing to $356,900. Of this sum $194,125 will be 

 received from the term biUs of students, $99,300 

 from endowments, and the balance from sun- 

 dry sources. 



