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ministering the ten-per-cent. road fund, for- 

 est officers charged with the actual plans and 

 expenditures in the neighborhood of their 

 forests have, in almost all cases, secured an 

 equal or a larger cooperative fund from state 

 authorities for the building of certain pieces 

 of road. With the money thus expended many 

 important roads are being built or put in re- 

 pair. One on the Wyoming National Forest, 

 six miles long, makes accessible to farmers a 

 large body of timber and opens up a region of 

 great scenic beauty. In northwestern Ari- 

 zona, part of the fund will be used in connec- 

 tion with the LeFevre-Bright Angel road, 

 important because it makes accessible to tour- 

 ists the Grand Canyon of the Colorado. In 

 one place, the ocean-to-ocean highway crosses 

 the Apache National Forest, Arizona, and on 

 this project the forest service and the local 

 authorities cooperated enthusiastically. On 

 the Florida national forest in western Florida 

 Steel bridges and graded roads have, under 

 the stimulus of this fund, taken the place of 

 corduroy, bog and sand. This federal road 

 fund is now available in all national forest 

 states of the west. Just as fast as returns 

 come in, the forestry officials say, a similar 

 fund will become available in states in which 

 eastern national forests are being secured. 



The American Petroleum Society was or- 

 ganized on September 10 at the Experiment 

 Station of the U. S. Bureau of Mines, Pitts- 

 burgh, Pa. This organization is the result of 

 an effort of the bureau for the past seven 

 years to bring together the men interested in 

 the petroleum industry. Invitations were sent 

 out in July to the secretaries of twenty-four 

 of the national societies of the United States, 

 inviting them to be present and cooperate in 

 this orgsnization. Eighteen of these societies 

 responded at a meeting on August 1 at the 

 Bureau of Mines. A similar invitation was 

 sent out in August to eight additional socie- 

 ties, making a total of thirty-two societies that 

 were invited to attend the September confer- 

 ence. A large number of these were repre- 

 sented at the meeting on September 10, when 

 the final organization was completed. This 

 society will concern itself with the study of 



all phases of natural gases and petroleum, 

 including the origin, statistics, conservation, 

 drilling methods, production, transportation, 

 storage, refining and specifications for refined 

 products. At the meeting the constitution 

 and by-laws were adopted, and officers were 

 elected as follows : president, C. D. Chamber- 

 lin, of the National Petroleum Association, 

 Cleveland, Ohio; vice-president, E. Galbreath, 

 of the Independent Oil and Gas Producers' 

 Association of Oklahoma, Tulsa, Okla. ; sec- 

 retary. Dr. Irving C. Allen, U. S. Bureau of 

 Mines, Pittsburgh, Pa. It is anticipated that 

 the first annual meeting will be held at some 

 convenient place in the United States in the 

 spring of 1914, and the second annual meeting 

 will be held at the Panama Pacific Universal 

 Exposition in San Francisco in 1915. At the 

 1915 meeting it is anticipated that all of the 

 petroleum societies in the country will meet 

 in one great congress. An invitation has been 

 sent to the president of the International 

 Petroleum Commission, which meets in Jan- 

 uary, 1914, in Bucharest, Roumania, to hold 

 its annual meeting for 1915 in San Francisco. 



UNIVESSITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS 

 Mrs. W. Bayard Cutting and her children 

 have given $200,000 to Columbia University 

 for a fund in memory of the late W. Bayard 

 Cutting, of the class of '69, who served as 

 trustee of the university from 1880 until his 

 death, in 1912. The income of this fund is to 

 be applied to the maintenance of traveling 

 fellowships, open to graduate students of dis- 

 tinction in letters, science, law and medicine 

 or engineering. 



Dr. Gavin Paterson Tennent, of Glasgow, 

 has bequeathed £25,000 to the University of 

 Glasgow, to be applied for such ob.iects or ob- 

 ject in connection with the faculty of medi- 

 cine as the trustees may determine. The uni- 

 versity has also received a legacy of £4,000 

 from the late Mrs. Caird, widow of Principal 

 Caird, to establish two scholarships in classics 

 or mental philosophy, and a legacy of £5,000i 

 by the late Mr. William Weir, ironmaster, the 

 income of which is to pay for an additional 

 assistant to the professor of materia medica. 



