November 6, 1914] 



SCIENCE 



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From a geological point of view much valuable 

 information would result from a study of tte 

 double bridge of islands between Celebes and 

 New Guinea — the more northerly running 

 through Pulo Peling, the Banggai archipelago, 

 the Sula Islands, Pulo Obi and Misol, to the 

 so-called " duck-bill " of New Guinea ; the 

 more southerly through Burn and Ceram to 

 Fakfak. This is, in fact, one of the most im- 

 portant and interesting tasks remaining to be 

 done in the archipelago. A detailed examina- 

 tion of the geology of Ceram, known to us only 

 through the work of Martin and Verbeek, 

 would be of both scientific and practical value. 

 In the domain of hydrography and oceanog- 

 raphy there is much to be learned in the region 

 round Ceram, and the program would include 

 surveys, soundings, studies of the tides, cur- 

 rents, temperature and composition of the 

 water, and the fauna and flora of the coast, the 

 coastal waters, and the deep sea. Little is also 

 known of the inhabitants of the interior of 

 Ceram, their relationships among themselves 

 and with the coast peoples, their languages, and 

 so on. The zoology and botany of the island 

 offer a wide field for research, and in conjunc- 

 tion with the geology should throw an impor- 

 tant light on the past history of this part of 

 the world. The flora of Central Ceram is con- 

 sidered to be probably the oldest member of 

 the flora of the Moluccas. The proposed inves- 

 tigations promise results of great scientific 

 interest. 



The United States Geological Survey has 

 just printed a large, colored wall map showing 

 the petroleum resources and the natural gas 

 deposits of the United States, and also the 

 thousands of miles of trunk oil pipe lines. 

 The map shows the areas underlain by knovsm 

 oil pools and known gas pools, as well as gen- 

 eral localities which are productive in either 

 oil or gas, and also areas where there are note- 

 worthy occurrences of either oil or gas but 

 where there is no present production. The 

 map is 49 by Y6 inches, printed on the scale of 

 40 miles to 1 inch, in 5 colors. It is printed 

 in two sheets and is sold by the Geological 

 Survey. This map not only shows graphically 

 the oil fields and pipe lines, but is an excellent 

 general map of the United States. 



VmVEBSITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS 

 A GIFT of $10,000 has been made to Brown 

 University from the Philadelphia alumni for 

 the purpose of establishing the "Morgan Ed- 

 wards Fellowship." 



The council of the University of Paris has 

 made all arrangements for beginning courses 

 in the various departments at the usual date. 



The St. Louis College of Pharmacy will 

 celebrate its semi-centennial on November 10 

 and 11, with appropriate exercises, partici- 

 pated in by prominent pharmaceutical educa- 

 tors from different sections of the country. 



The extension of the certificate privilege to 

 accredited high schools and preparatory schools 

 has resulted in an increase in the number of 

 students in the freshman class entering Stev- 

 ens Institute this fall of eighty-three per cent, 

 over the number entering last year. 



Dr. Walter Peaeson Kelley has been ap- 

 pointed professor of agricultural chemistry in 

 the graduate school of tropical agriculture and 

 citrus experiment station of the University of 

 California. ' Woodbridge Metealf has been 

 appointed assistant professor of forestry in 

 the university, and Dr. Wilbur A. Sawyer, di- 

 rector of the California State Hygiene Labor- 

 atory, has been appointed lecturer in hygiene 

 and preventive medicine in the medical school. 



Dr. Cornelius Copley has been appointed 

 professor of laryngology in the College of 

 Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia Univer- 

 sity, to succeed the late Dr. William K. Simi)- 

 son. 



Mr. M. A. Charavay, instructor in experi- 

 mental engineering, in the Stevens Institute 

 of Technology, has been appointed assistant 

 professor. Mr. C. Lester Coggins, of the de- 

 partment of physics has accepted an assistant 

 professorship at Ehode Island State College. 

 Mr. L. 0. F. Horle, a graduate of Stevens, has 

 been appointed assistant in physics in his 

 place. 



Dr. Howard Thomas Karsner, B.S., M.D. 

 (Pennsylvania), now assistant professor of 

 pathology in Harvard Medical School, has 

 been appointed professor of pathology in the 

 school of medicine, Western Eeserve Univer- 



