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isfy the commissioners (a) that he has ob- 

 tained, or can within one month of election 

 obtain, a post in some engineering or other 

 manufacturing works approved by them; 

 (b) that he is in need of pecuniary assistance 

 to enable him to accept such a post. A bur- 

 sar may, if the commissioners approve, spend 

 part of the tenure of his bursary in studying 

 a special industrial process or processes in 

 works either at home or abroad. No bursar 

 shall enter a firm as a premium pupil without 

 the special consent of the commissioners. A 

 bursar must submit a report of his work to 

 the commissioners on the expiration of each 

 year of his bursary. Forms of application 

 may be obtained from the secretary to the 

 commissioners. 



VNIFEESITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS 

 By act of the New York legislature, ap- 

 proved by Governor Dis, a state college of 

 forestry has been established at Syracuse Uni- 

 versity, and the sum of $55,000 has been ap- 

 propriated for it. It will be remembered that 

 the legislature several years ago refused to 

 continue to support the college of forestry at 

 Cornell University. 



Governor Dix has vetoed the bill to appro- 

 priate $10,000 for establishing a state school 

 of sanitary science and public health at Cor- 

 nell University. 



Mr. Will C. Hogg has stated that he has 

 assurances of a fund of $25,000 a year for 

 five years for the University of Texas, from 

 which a prize of $10,000 and other prizes are 

 to be given for the best theses on the scope and 

 purposes of the university. 



At West Virginia University E. D. Sander- 

 son, dean of the College of Agriculture, has 

 been appointed director of the Experiment 

 Station to succeed J. H. Stewart, recently re- 

 signed, to take effect January 1, 1912, in addi- 

 tion to his duties as dean. Mr. I. S. Cook, 

 Jr., of Chilicothe, Ohio, a graduate of Ohio 

 State University, 1906, has been appointed 

 associate professor of agronomy. William H. 

 Alderman recently associate horticulturalist, 



New York Agricultural Experiment Station, 

 Geneva, New York, has been appointed pro- 

 fessor of horticulture. 



Dr. Egbert Eetzer, assistant professor of 

 anatomy in the University of Minnesota, has 

 been elected to a similar position in the Uni- 

 versity of Chicago. 



Dr. Paul J. White, '06, assistant professor 

 of farm crops in the New York State College 

 of Agriculture since 1908, has accepted a pro- 

 fessorship in Washington State College at 

 Pullman. 



Mr. Sidney S. Schmidt, a graduate of the 

 Missouri School of Mines, and at present a 

 chemist for the Washoe Smelter at Anaconda, 

 Montana, has been appointed assistant in 

 mineralogy at Northwestern University. He 

 will take the place of Mr. A. J. Ellis, who re- 

 signed to accept an appointment on the U. S. 

 Geological Survey. 



Professor Eeichenbach, of Bonn, has re- 

 ceived a call to succeed Professor von Es- 

 mareh as director of the Hygienic Institute at 

 Gottingen. 



Dr. Gustav Storring, professor of philos- 

 ophy at Zurich, has been called to Strasburg. 



Professor Bethe, of Strasburg, has ac- 

 cepted a call as professor of physiology at 

 Kiel. 



DISCUSSION AND COSBESPONDENCE 



COAL NEAR PINEDALE, NAVIJO COUNTY, ARIZ. 



In Mr. A. C. Veatch's recent article on the 

 coal deposits near Pinedale, Navijo County, 

 Ariz.,^ his first sentence reads : " The sugges- 

 tion that there were coal deposits in the re- 

 gion near Pinedale, Ariz., first came to the 

 survey through the General Land Office (about 

 November 2Y, 1909)." 



The vsT-iter wishes to call attention to the 

 fact that coal was known to exist in this re- 

 gion many years previous to the date above 

 given. In 1903 the writer published an article 

 on the " Geology of the Port Apache Eegion, 



'U. S. Geol. Survey Bulletin No. 431— B. Ad- 

 vanced Chapter from Contributions to Economic 

 Geology, 1909 — Coal and Lignite, pp. 154-158. 



