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preserved througli use. Oa two of the reser- 

 vations, the forest experts point out, the op- 

 portunities are excellent for growing cedar 

 and pine for spar buoys and piling, to be used 

 in the work of the Lighthouse Bureau itself. 

 All parts of the reservations can not be de- 

 voted to forests. Some areas will have to be 

 left clear for protection from fire, while others 

 immediately adjacent to the beacons them- 

 selves will have to be left bare in order that 

 the lights may not be obscured. 



A OONTRIBDTION on the great glaciers of 

 Alaska is Bulletin 526 of the U. S. Geological 

 Survey, " Coastal Glaciers of Prince William 

 Sound and Kenai Peninsula, Alaska," by IT. 

 S. Grant and D. P. Higgins. The report is 

 profusely illustrated with photographs and 

 with maps of the individual glaciers, as well 

 as two comprehensive maps of Prince William 

 Sound and the southwestern part of Kenai 

 Peninsula, showing the location of scores of 

 glaciers. The report is in fact a guide and 

 handbook to this wonderful scenic region 

 which must prove invaluable to the tourist. 

 Many valuable data and important measure- 

 ments of glaciers in the United States, Alaska 

 and elsewhere have been brought together 

 from time to time, and it is probably the 

 general impression that since the vast ice 

 sheet which covered the northern part of 

 North America began its retreat the glaciers 

 of the continent have been continually shrink- 

 ing. It is therefore interesting to note from 

 the illustrations and descriptions in Bulletin 

 526 that some of these Alaskan glaciers are 

 progressing and growing larger rather than 

 retrogressing, many huge forests being up- 

 turned and devastated by the irresistible ad- 

 vance of the ice. In other glaciers the retreat 

 within a period of ten years has been more 

 than a mile. The great magnitude of some 

 of these glaciers is seen in the descriptions, 

 which indicate the height of the tidal ice cliffs 

 that form the termini of the glaciers as being 

 from 300 to 400 feet. Slowly moving down 

 the mountain valleys, some of them steeply 

 pitched and others relatively flat, these stu- 

 pendous ice fields include billions of tons of 

 ice. Many young Americans can find here 

 memorials of their alma mater, for along Col- 



lege Fiord are Tale Glacier, Harvard Glacier, 

 Smith Glacier, Bryn Mawr Glacier and Vas- 

 sar and Wellesley glaciers. 



UNIVEESITT AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS 



As noted in Science last week, the governor 

 of Pennsylvania has signed a bill appropriat- 

 ing the sum of $1,226,000 for the next two 

 years, to the Pennsylvania State College. Two 

 years ago the college received $800,000, out of 

 which $200,000 was to be applied for the pur- 

 pose of paying o£F a long-standing debt, so 

 this year's appropriation is practically double 

 that given two years ago. This is only in 

 keeping with the great increase in students, 

 as last year's enrollment, including summer 

 school for teachers, was 2,535. The increase 

 has been among the largest in the United 

 States. 



Professor Lyman P. Powell, head of the 

 ethics department at New York University, 

 has accepted the presidency of Hobart College. 



The following resignations have recently oc- 

 curred at the Alabama Polytechnic Institute: 

 Professor Jesse M. Jones, recently appointed 

 head of the department of animal industry, 

 has resigned to become field agent in coopera- 

 tive farm demonstration work in the states of 

 Maryland, Kentucky and West Virginia for 

 the U. S. Department of Agriculture. L. W. 

 Shook, formerly field agent in live stock work, 

 has resigned to accept a similar position with 

 the North Carolina Station, and Mr. T. C. 

 Bottoms, herdsman, has resigned his position 

 to take up similar work at the same station. 

 Mr. J. M. Johnson, assistant in the depart- 

 ment of animal industry during the past year, 

 has resigned to pursue graduate work in the 

 University of Missouri. 



Dr. G. E. Gibson, of the University of Edin- 

 burgh, has been appointed instructor in chem- 

 istry in the University of California. 



Mr. E. a. Jehle, of the Kansas State Agri- 

 cultural College, instructor in plant pathology, 

 has been appointed instructor in plant pathol- 

 ogy at Cornell University. 



Professor E. M. Brown, of the geography 

 department of the State Normal School, Wor- 

 cester, Mass., has been appointed as head of 



