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each subscriber. The meetings of the confer- 

 ence will depend upon the number of the com- 

 munications, but it seems probable that five 

 sittings will be sufficient. The remaining 

 time will be devoted to visits to the Museum 

 of Natural History, the Pasteur Institute at 

 Garches, to Verrieres, the laboratories of the 

 Sorbonne, etc. Probably there will be a re- 

 ception by the French National Society of 

 Horticulture on September 18, and one at the 

 Hotel de Ville on September 23. 



When congress, in order to encourage the 

 building of the great transcontinental rail- 

 roads, subsidized them by land grants of 

 enormous areas along the lines to be built, 

 certain restrictions were made as to the char- 

 acter of lands which were thus granted. Thus 

 the land grant of the Northern Pacific ex- 

 cepted all mineral lands other than those con- 

 taining coal and iron, these minerals being 

 excepted because they would be of use in the 

 building and maintenance of the road. After 

 the grant was made it became necessary to 

 determine what parts of these lands were 

 mineral and should therefore be retained by 

 the government. A classification of the lands 

 included within the Northern Pacific grant in 

 the Bozeman, Helena and Missoula land dis- 

 tricts, in Montana and in the Ooeur d'Alene 

 district, in Idaho, was accordingly required by 

 the Act of CongTess of February 26, 1895, 

 which provided that the classifications should 

 be made by three commissioners in each land 

 district. In the sundry civil Act of June 25, 

 1910, an appropriation of $30,000 was made 

 to enable the commissioner of the General 

 Land Office to complete the examination and 

 classification of lands within the Northern 

 Pacific grant in this territory. The addi- 

 tional classification was made by geologists 

 of the Geological Survey. As a result of the 

 work done 288,545 acres were examined and 

 classified during the year. Of this area 112,- 

 514 acres were classified as non-mineral and 

 may therefore properly be patented to the 

 Northern Pacific Eailroad. On the other 

 hand, 176,031 acres were classified as mineral 

 land, either because the lands examined were 



found to contain valuable deposits of gold, 

 silver, lead, phosphate or other important 

 minerals, or because the geological and other 

 indications warranted the prospecting of the 

 lands for valuable minerals. Lands that are 

 finally held to be mineral will remain in the 

 public domain for entry and development by 

 private enterprise. The potential value of the 

 minerals included in these lands has not been 

 fully estimated, but it is certainly very great. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS 

 The dean of the Wisconsin College of 

 Physicians and Surgeons, Milwaukee, an- 

 nounces that an anonymous benefactor has 

 given $5,000 to the maintenance fund of the 

 college. 



The trustees of Indiana University have 

 appointed Dr. Charles P. Emerson as dean of 

 the Indiana University School of Medicine, 

 and head of the department of medicine. He 

 will take up his residence in Indianapolis, the 

 first of September, and will enter on his teach- 

 ing and executive duties at the beginning of 

 the fall term. It is definitely agreed that his 

 first duties shall be to the university, and that 

 consultations, to which his practise will be 

 limited, shall be strictly secondary to these. 



Dr. M. a. Eosanofp, since 1907 acting head 

 of the department of chemistry in Clark Uni- 

 versity, has been made full university pro- 

 fessor and head of the department. 



Me. Paul Hayhurst, assistant entomologist 

 at the Arkansas Experiment Station, has been 

 promoted to the full title of entomologist at 

 the station and professor of entomology in the 

 University of Arkansas with Mr. George G. 

 Becker as his assistant. Mr. Hayhurst thus 

 succeeds Dr. C. F. Adams, dean and director, 

 who was formerly the entomologist. 



Dr. Heinrich Biltz, associate professor at 

 Kiel, has been called to the chair of chemistry 

 at Breslau. 



Professor Eossler, of Munich, has ac- 

 cepted a call to Jena as professor of patho- 

 logic anatomy. 



