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roofing-slate production of the United States. 

 Virginia was the only state whose output 

 showed an increase. Milling slate, including 

 slate used for blackboards, school slates, elec- 

 trical work, table tops, and sanitary and other 

 structural work, decreased from $1,714,414 in 

 1913 to $$1,545,955 in 1914. There was an in- 

 crease in the material sold for blackboards and 

 a decrease in school slates and other miU. stock. 



The United States Geological Survey has 

 just issued, as Water-supply paper 358, a re- 

 port on the water resources of the Eio Grande 

 basin from 1888 to 1913, by Eobert Follans- 

 bee and H. J. Dean. Systematic study of 

 run-off in the Rio Grande basin was begun by 

 the federal government near Embudo, New 

 Mexico, soon after the passage of the act of 

 October 2, 1888, which authorized the organi- 

 zation of the irrigation survey under the di- 

 rection of the United States Geological Sur- 

 vey. A camp of instruction for hydrographers 

 was established near Embudo, and at this camp 

 and the gaging station neaT by the methods of 

 stream measurements now in general use 

 were systematized. In the spring of 1889 addi- 

 tional stations were established on the Rio 

 Grande near Del Norte, Colo., and El Paso, 

 Texas. From this beginning the work of 

 measuring the waters of the Rio Grande basin 

 has been expanded not only by the Geological 

 Survey acting alone, but by the survey in co- 

 operation with the American section of the 

 International Water Commission and the 

 state engineers of Colorado and New Mexico. 

 At the end of September, 1913, records had 

 been obtained at 93 gaging stations. The re- 

 port contains not only all data concerning 

 stream flow in the Rio Grande basin collected 

 by the survey and cooperating parties but also 

 records furnished by individuals connected 

 with private interests. Since 1909 the state 

 engineer of Colorado has cooperated in the 

 maintenance of the stations in Colorado. 

 Prom' 1907 to 1912 the work in New Mexico 

 was carried on under the immediate super- 

 vision of the territorial engineer. During the 

 • latter part of 1912 a cooperative agreement 

 was made with the state engineer. 



UNIVEBSITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS 



Mr. James J. Hill has given $125,000 to 

 Harvard University to endow a professorship 

 of transportation in the Graduate School of 

 Business Administration. 



A TRUST fund of $100,000, the proceeds of 

 which are to be divided between the William 

 Pepper Clinical Laboratory of Medicine and 

 the Latin and Greek department, is bequeathed 

 to the University of Pennsylvania under the 

 will of Samuel Dickson, of Philadelphia. 



The Hahnemann Medical College of San 

 Francisco has offered to convey all its property 

 to the University of California, and has pro- 

 posed to cease separate instruction. Instead 

 two professorships are to be maintained in the 

 University of California Medical School in 

 homeopathic materia medica and in homeo- 

 pathic therapeutics, the financial provision 

 therefore to be made, for the next two years, 

 by the homeopaths. The instruction in 

 homeopathic materia medica and homeopathic 

 therapeutics will be offered as elective courses. 

 In all other respects students wishing eventu- 

 ally to become homeopathic practitioners will 

 receive exactly the same instruction in the 

 University of California Medical School as all 

 of its other students. 



Dr. Frank Thilly, professor of philosophy, 

 has been elected dean of the College of Arts 

 and Sciences, Cornell University, for a term 

 of two years. He was nominated by the faculty 

 and was elected by the trustees at thte board's 

 meeting on June 15. He succeeds Professor 

 E. L. Nichols, whose term has expired and who 

 will spend next year in the far east. 



Dr. Bailey Willis, of the U. S. Geological 

 Survey, Washington, D. C, has been appointed 

 head professor of geology in the Leland Stan- 

 ford Junior University, filling the vacancy left 

 in this department when Dr. John C. Branner 

 became president of the university. Professor 

 WiUis wiU. take up his new duties with the 

 opening of the school year in September. 



Dr. W. F. R. Phillips, of the University of 

 Alabama, has accepted the chair of anatomy in 

 the Medical College of South Carolina. 



