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does it include the manufacture of glass and 

 porcelain ware made expressly for electrical 

 purposes, that of bare iron and copper wire, or 

 any of the group of electrochemical and elec- 

 trometallurgical products. The total number 

 of establislunents in the United States in 1909 

 engaged in the manufacture of electrical ma- 

 chinery, apparatus and supplies, was 1,009. 

 The total number of persons engaged in the 

 industry was 105,600, of whom 102,950 were 

 wage earners. The total capital employed was 

 $267,844,432, and the total value of products 

 was $221,308,563. The industry in 1909 was 

 largely centralized in the six states of New 

 Tork, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Massachu- 

 setts, Illinois and Ohio. These states to- 

 gether reported 83.9 per cent, of the total 

 average number of wage earners, 82.6 per cent, 

 of the total value of products and 83.1 per 

 cent, of the total value added by manufacture. 



VNIVESSIT7 AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS 

 The Graduate College of Princeton Univer- 

 sity was formally dedicated on October 22. 

 Professor Andrew F. West, dean of the gradu- 

 ate school, made the principal address, his sub- 

 ject being " The Household of Knowledge." 

 Addresses of congratulation were made by Dr. 

 Alois Riehl, professor and former rector in the 

 University of Berlin; Dr. Arthur Shipley, 

 master of Christ's College, Cambridge; Dr. 

 Arthur Denis Godley, fellow of Magdalen Col- 

 lege and public orator in the University of 

 Oxford; M. Emile Boutroux, honorary pro- 

 fessor in the University of Paris and president 

 of the Foundation Thiers, and by President 

 ISTicholas Murray Butler, of Columbia Univer- 

 sity. The Cleveland Memorial Tower was then 

 presented by Mr. Richard V. Lindabury, presi- 

 dent of the Cleveland Monument Association, 

 and accepted on behalf of the university by 

 President John Grier Hibben. A memorial 

 address on " Grover Cleveland " was then 

 made by ex-President William Howard Taft. 

 Earlier in the week the foreign guests gave 

 public lectures, the subject of Dr. Shipley's 

 address being " The Origin of Life." 



Dr. Christian B. Holmes has been ap- 

 pointed dean of the medical department of the 



University of Cincinnati, succeeding Dr. Paul 

 G. WooUey. 



At the University of California, Frank 

 LeEoy Peterson has been appointed assistant 

 professor of farm mechanics, and Dr. Max 

 Morse, instructor in physiology. 



Charles T. Bjek, Ph.D. (Wisconsin, '11), 

 has been appointed professor of geology in the 

 University of New Mexico. 



Miss Fanny C. Gates, formerly head of the 

 department of physics at Goucher College, has 

 been appointed dean of women and professor of 

 mental and physical hygiene in Grinnell 

 CoUege. 



Mr. George E. Johnstone, A.B. (Illinois, 

 '13), has been appointed instructor in botany at 

 the Michigan Agricultural College, making 

 four instructors in addition to professor and 

 assistant professor, who give the full time to 

 instruction in botany, with two research 

 assistants giving a quarter of their time re- 

 spectively to plant pathology and plant physi- 

 ology. Five hundred and twenty-one students 

 have registered for work in the botanical de- 

 partment, being an increase of twenty-five per 

 cent, over last year. 



Mr. William C. Willard, C.E., M.Sc, Lehigh 

 University, has been appointed assistant pro- 

 fessor of railway engineering at McGill Uni- 

 versity, Montreal. 



At Birmingham University Dr. F. C. Lee 

 has been nominated to the chair of civil engi- 

 neering vacated by Professor S. M. Dixon. 

 Professor P. F. Frankland, F.E.S., has been 

 elected dean of the faculty of science in suc- 

 cession to Professor Dixon. 



DISCUSSION AND COBBESPONDENCE 



comments on professor bolley's article on 

 cereal cropping 

 It is now rather late to refer to Professor 

 Bolley's article on " Cereal Cropping," pub- 

 lished in Science on August 22, but I can not 

 refrain from calling in question his statements 

 in regard to the deterioration in the quality of 

 wheat grovni on soils which are " exhausted " 



