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was comparatively small, the secondary recov- 

 eries are the only important domestic source 

 of supply. The production of tin from ore 

 mined in the United States is negligible, so 

 that the secondary recoveries constitute prac- 

 tically the sole domestic supply. The use of 

 old tin cans as a source of tin was not ex- 

 tended. The cost of collecting, transportation 

 charges and inability to dispose of the old 

 black plate from which the tin is wholly or 

 partly removed are the principal reasons given 

 why more old tin cans are not utilized. 



VNIVEHSITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS 

 The daily papers state that there will be es- 

 tablished at Eagland, Ala., an industrial 

 school for white children by the Southern 

 Board of Education with funds amounting 

 to $5,000,000 to be given by Mr. John D. 

 Eockefeller, the Eussell Sage Foundation, 

 Mrs. E. H. Harriman and others. Eagland 

 offered 5,000 acres for the site, 200 lots in 

 town, water power and other considerations. 



Dr. S. N. Kolaceoskij, who died recently, 

 bequeathed all his property, estimated at 40,- 

 000,000 rubles, for the establishment, in south- 

 ern Eussia, of an agricultural academy. 



Concrete foundations have been completed 

 for Eand Hall, the new Sibley shop building, 

 of Cornell University, and steel for the frame- 

 work is arriving on the premises. 



As previously announced, the inauguration 

 of Dr. Guy Potter Benton as president of the 

 University of Vermont will take place on the 

 fifth and sixth of October. Eollowing the gen- 

 eral plan already given, the formal inaugura- 

 tion exercises will take place on the second 

 day. The first day will be given to a con- 

 ference between colleges and secondary schools 

 on the subject, " College Eequirements and the 

 Secondary Curriculum." 



Carbon Gillaspie, M.D. (Colorado), has 

 been appointed professor of anatomy in the 

 University of Colorado. Since 1909 Dr. Gil- 

 laspie has been instructor in this department. 

 He will give all his time to teaching. 



Me. William J. McCaughey, mineralogist 

 and petrographer of the U. S. Bureau of Soils, 



has been appointed as assistant professor in 

 metallurgy and mineralogy in the Ohio State 

 University. 



P. F. Gaehe, Ph.D. (Cornell), formerly of 

 Esbert College, Constantinople, has been ap- 

 pointed professor of physics at Wells College, 

 Aurora, N. Y. 



Additions to the faculty of the Agricultural 

 College of Utah for the year 1911-12 are as 

 follows: E. G. Titus, Sc.D. (Harvard), pro- 

 fessor of entomology; F. L. West, Ph.D. (Chi- 

 cago), professor of physics; Elmer G. Peter- 

 son, A.M., Ph.D. (Cornell), professor of 

 bacteriology; F. S. Harris, Ph.D. (Cornell), 

 professor of agronomy; C. IST. Jensen, M.S.A. 

 (Cornell), professor of botany and plant 

 pathology; J. E. Greaves, Ph.D. (California), 

 associate professor of chemistry; and W. E. 

 Carroll, M.S. (Ulinois), assistant professor of 

 animal husbandry. J. C. Hogenson has been 

 transferred from college work to the extension 

 division as agronomist. The extension divi- 

 sion has been enlarged further by employing 

 Miss Hazel Love Dunford for work in home 

 economics. 



Dr. a. W. Whitehead, F.E.S., fellow of 

 Trinity College, Cambridge, has been ap- 

 pointed to succeed Mr. E. Cunningham, 

 as lecturer in the department of applied 

 mathematics and mechanics in the University 

 College, London. 



DISCUSSION AND COBBESPONDENCE 



MOISTURE AND OUT-OF-DOORS 



To THE Editor of Science: This being the 

 deadest time of the year, when nobody reads 

 Science, and the post-office refuses to send it 

 after one, I am emboldened to take my pen 

 in hand. The two very clear letters by 

 Messrs. Mott-Smith and Wilson, in answer to 

 Dr. L. H. Gulick's query regarding moisture 

 in the air, together with those of Messrs. 

 Kent, Crowell and Jones in the issue of March 

 31, leave little or nothing to be said on the 

 subject. What I wish to emphasize is the 

 feeling of shock that I experienced when a 

 medical man of the standing of Dr. Gulick 

 could ask such questions in good faith, when, 

 as has been said, the answers to them can be 



