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another question that will be discussed by 

 western men. They will declare that the 

 placer mining industry of California has been 

 nearly wiped out through drastic rules and 

 regulations, some of them imposed by the TJ. S. 

 government. At the present time the debris 

 question is in charge of a commission of the 

 United States army engineers and it is claimed 

 that while they zealously watch the interests 

 of the farmers, they know nothing about the 

 mining problem. A demand may be made for 

 the inclusion of a mining engineer on this 

 board to see that the interests of the mines are 

 protected. 



The coal men of the east will be mostly 

 interested in two problems, the " safety first " 

 movement and the conservation of the coal 

 lands adjacent to the great eastern industrial 

 centers. This latter, it is said, has become a 

 question of most serious moment. It is fully 

 Tealized by the eastern men that their coal 

 fields are being used up at a tremendous rate 

 and that when these coals are gone, it will be 

 useless to think of getting coal from the west, 

 ior the commercial prosperity of the east de- 

 pends upon a supply of coal at reasonable price 

 :and transportation charges from the west 

 would be too great. 



The proposed system of leasing mineral 

 lands will also come up for extended discus- 

 sion. The fact that the federal government 

 some time ago leased coal lands in Wyoming 

 to a coal company, thus making the entering 

 wedge in this system of disposing of the gov- 

 ernment's mineral lands, will undoubtedly call 

 for comment. Then there is the proposal for 

 the revision of all the mining laws of the 

 country. A great many mining men are of 

 the opinion that the laws are antiquated and 

 cumbersome, imposing hardship upon every 

 one who has to deal with them. 



MEMORIAL TO SIB WILLIAM LOGAN 

 On July 16, in the little fishing village of 

 Perce, on the Quebec shore of the Gulf of St. 

 Lawrence, a memorial was unveiled to Sir 

 William Edmond Logan, Kt., LL.D., F.R.S., 

 founder and first director of the Geological 

 Survey of Canada. The day selected for this 



interesting event was the occasion of the visit 

 of seventy members of the International Geo- 

 logical Congress to the Gaspe country and the 

 memorial was erected by the Congress to com- 

 memorate the important oiEcial services of Sir 

 William Logan which began in Gaspe in 1842. 

 Though the day had been set apart for the 

 exploration of the picturesque and involved 

 geology of Perce, a half hour was appropriately 

 devoted to the ceremony of effectively remind- 

 ing the visitors who it was that first lifted the 

 veil from the geological problems of Gaspe. 

 The memorial is a bronze slab bearing a strong 

 and efl^ective medallion portrait of Sir William 

 accompanied by a suitable inscription and is 

 the highly artistic work of Mr. Henri Hebert, 

 of Montreal. It has been attached to the face 

 of a natural rock wall in the heart of Perce 

 village. At the unveiling ceremony suitable 

 addresses were made by Dr. A. E. Barlow, 

 chairman of the Logan Memorial Committee, 

 and by Dr. John M. Clarke. As a further ex- 

 pression of their desire to establish the mem- 

 ory of Logan and his work in Gaspe, and to 

 acknowledge their appreciation of the extra- 

 ordinary attractions of Perce, the committee 

 contemplates acquiring the land about the 

 present memorial in order to present it to the 

 town as a public park. 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 

 The Kelvin Memorial window in West- 

 minster Abbey was dedicated on July 15. The 

 dean of Westminster made the address and 

 the ceremonies were attended by many dis- 

 tinguished scientific men. The window, 

 which was designed by Mr. J. N. Comper, is 

 in the east bay of the nave on the north side. 

 The light from it falls upon the graves of 

 Kelvin and Isaac Newton, and immediately 

 beneath it are the graves of Darwin and 

 Herschel. 



A COMMITTEE has been formed to erect a 

 memorial in honor of the late Sir William 

 White, the distinguished naval architect, at 

 the time of his death president of the British 

 Association for the Advancement of Science. 

 Former students of Ealph S. Tarr, of Cor- 

 nell University, wish to place on the campus 



