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noon session will be devoted to " The Eelation 

 of Education to Industrial Efficiency" and 

 " The Effect of Inheritance and Income Taxes 

 on the Distribution of Wealth." The con- 

 cluding session on December 31 will be a joint 

 meeting with the American Sociological So- 

 ciety on " The Public Eegulation of Wages." 

 At a meeting of Tale University men in- 

 terested in engineering at the Yale Club, on 

 December 4, a constitution was adopted form- 

 ing a Tale Engineering Association. Discus- 

 sion of this project has been under way for 

 a year, and a committee, consisting of E. G. 

 Williams, '87S.; Calvert Townley, '86S.; 

 Bradley Stoughton, '93S.; W. C. Tucker, 

 '88S., and Professor L. P. Breckenridge, 

 'SIS., of the Scientific School, has been at 

 work drawing up the organization papers. 

 The main purpose of the association will be 

 "to advance the interests of engineering edu- 

 cation at Tale and to promote the better ac- 

 quaintance and fellowship of Tale engineers.'' 

 The Bulletin of the American Geographical 

 Society states that for two years past the De- 

 partment of Historical Eesearch at the Car- 

 negie Institution has given a considerable 

 amount of time to planning an atlas of the 

 historical geography of the United States and 

 collecting materials for its construction. Sev- 

 eral specialists, including Professor Frank H. 

 Hodder, of the University of Kansas ; Professor 

 O. G. Libby, of the University of North Da- 

 kota; Professor Max Farrand, of Tale Uni- 

 versity, and Professor Jesse S. Eeeves, of the 

 University of Michigan, each proficient in one 

 or more subjects to be covered by the atlas, 

 have been called to Washington to conduct 

 investigations for the proposed work. The de- 

 partment of historical research wishes to make 

 the atlas of the greatest possible use to the 

 teachers and writers of American history and 

 is seeking all the helpful cooperation that can 

 be secured. According to present plans the 

 completed atlas, exclusive of text, will con- 

 tain 200 pages measuring about 22 by 14 

 inches. The largest maps will be approxi- 

 mately full-page maps, many others will be 

 about one fourth that size and many still 

 smaller. The area covered wiU be generally 



the whole or a part of continental United 

 States. It may occasionally be found desira- 

 ble, however, to represent our detached pos- 

 sessions, adjacent parts of Canada and Mexico, 

 the West Indies and parts of the north Atlan- 

 tic and north Pacific oceans. Excepting maps 

 illustrating the geology of the country and its 

 early aborigines, all the maps will fall within 

 the period from the discovery of America in 

 1492 to the present time. The general head- 

 ings are expected to include physical geography, 

 aborigines, early maps of America, routes of 

 explorers and colonizers, boundaries and divi- 

 sions, industrial and social maps, and political, 

 city and military maps. A considerable por- 

 tion of the atlas will be devoted to political 

 statistics, which will be treated somewhat after 

 the method of Professor Turner and his stu- 

 dents. It is to be hoped that the specialists in 

 charge will have all the collaboration that can 

 add to the value of the proposed atlas. 



A CONFERENCE of Pacific coast horticultur- 

 ists was called by Governor West, of Oregon, 

 to meet at the Agricultural College early in 

 December to secure better and uniform fruit 

 inspection throughout the western fruit-grow- 

 ing states. After hearing reports and recom- 

 mendations from the horticultural commis- 

 sioners of Oregon, California and Washington, 

 a joint committee of producers and distributors 

 was appointed to prepare a bill embodying the 

 features endorsed by the conference, to be pre- 

 sented to the state legislatures with the rec- 

 ommendation that it be enacted into law. 

 The joint committee called in as advisory 

 members Professor H. F. Wilson and Pro- 

 fessor H. S. Jackson, entomologist and plant 

 pathologist, respectively, of the Oregon Sta- 

 tion. The measure as framed by the committee 

 provides effective inspection both within the 

 states and from other states, with as little 

 restriction as is consistent with efficiency. 

 The ultimate aim of the conference is to 

 secure uniform horticultural laws throughout 

 the entire country. 



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