NOVEMBEE 13, 1914] 



SCIENCE 



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the state is iron, of which a small quantity 

 (less than 500,000 tons of ore in 1913) is 

 mined. In addition, however, to being the 

 premier state in the production of coal, Penn- 

 sylvania leads also in the manufacture of 

 cement, the burning of lime, and the produc- 

 tion of mineral paints, sand, slate and stone. 

 It is second in the value of clay products and 

 natural gas, and sixth in the production of 

 petroleum. Although not an iron-ore state, 

 Pennsylvania is by far the leading producer 

 of pig iron, which is obtained from the Lake 

 Superior ores. The production in 1913 was 

 12,871,349 long tons, valued at $197,T26,314. 

 If the value of the pig iron made in Pennsyl- 

 vania were added to the value of the other 

 products of the state, the total values for 1913 

 would have exceeded $700,000,000, which is 

 more than one fourth of the value of the total 

 mineral production of the United States. The 

 production of coal in Pennsylvania in 1912 

 amounted to 246,227,086 short tons, valued at 

 $346,993,123 ; in 1913 the value was $388,220,- 

 933, an increase of $41,227,810, or 12 per cent., 

 over 1912. Second in importance among 

 Pennsylvania's mineral industries is the manu- 

 facture of Portland cement, closely followed 

 by the clay-working industry. The production 

 of cement in 1913 was 28,060,495 barrels, 

 valued at $24,268,800, against 27,625,340 bar- 

 rels, valued at $18,945,835, in 1912. The 

 value of the clay products, exclusive of raw 

 clay mined and sold, increased from $21,537,- 

 221 in 1912 to $24,231,482 in 1913. Although 

 ranking second in the total value of its clay 

 products, Pennsylvania is first in the produc- 

 tion of brick and tile. A large part of the 

 fire clay is mined in connection with coal 

 mining and becomes in reality a by-product 

 of that industry. 



UNIVEBSITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS 

 Mr. W. K. Vanderbilt has given $135,750 

 toward the purchase by Columbia University 

 of a half block of land on 117th Street ad- 

 joining other land owned by the university. 



The University of Pennsylvania receives 

 $50,000 by the will of Miss Anna Blanchard of 

 Philadelphia. 



The late Dr. Morris Longstreth, who at one 

 time held the chair of pathological anatomy in 

 Jefferson Medical College and later was in 

 practise at Cambridge, Mass., and Barcelona, 

 Spain, made the College of Physicians of 

 Philadelphia his residuary legatee. 



The annual dinner of the faculty and man- 

 agers of Haverford will be held on November 

 23, when questions relative to the curriculum 

 and the general policy of the college will be 

 discussed. 



Dr. William Waddell Boyd was inaugu- 

 rated president of- the Western College for 

 Women, Oxford, Ohio, on November 4. His 

 inaugural address was entitled " The Intelli- 

 gent Use of the Intellect." 



A CABLEGRAM to the IST. T. Sun states that 

 M. Henri Bergson, presiding at a meeting of 

 the Academy of Moral and Political Sciences 

 on November 7, announced that Arthur 

 RafFalovitch, Russian privy councillor and 

 attache of the Russian Embassy in Paris, a 

 correspondent of the academy, has given his 

 library, which he has been collecting for thirty 

 years, to the University of Louvain. M. Berg- 

 son added that a committee is being formed 

 to reconstitute the library's funds. It is 

 known that the Germans removed the most 

 precious manuscripts before burning the li- 

 brary, so it is hoped that the treasures even- 

 tually will be restored to Louvain. 



The Medico-Chirurgieal College of Phila- 

 delphia has, according to the Journal of the 

 American Medical Association, made the fol- 

 lowing faculty changes : Dr. Herbert H. Gush- 

 ing, professor of practical anatomy; Dr. 

 Ardrey W. Downs, professor of experimental 

 physiology; Vernon K. Suydam, professor of 

 physics; Charles E. Vanderkleed, professor of 

 analytical chemistry ; Dr. John H. Small, asso- 

 iate professor of bacteriology; Dr. Eugene A. 

 Case, associate professor of pathology; Dr. 

 Philipp Fischelis, associate professor of his- 

 tology and embryology; Dr. Guy Hinsdale, 

 Hot Springs, Va., associate professor of 

 climatology; Dr. Arthur G. Morgan, associate 

 professor of medicine, and Dr. John Stewart 

 Rodman and Dr. John J. Gilbride, associate 

 professors of surgery. 



