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SCIENCE 



[N. S. Vol. XXXVIII. No. i 



University; Bureau of Education paper by 

 Professor Kendrio 0. Babcock, University of 

 Illinois. 



UmVESSITT AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS 



The General Education Board, in addition 

 to tbe gift of $1,400,000 to tbe Johns Hopkins 

 Medical School, has made conditional appro- 

 priations of $200,000 for Barnard CoUege, 

 Columbia University; $200,000 for Wellesley 

 College, and $50,000 for Kipon CoUege. 



Two gifts have been made to the Massachu- 

 setts Institute of Technology from anonymous 

 donors, sums of half a million and one hun- 

 dred thousand dollars respectively. There is 

 an understanding that the larger gift is to be 

 used for the buildings, while the other has no 

 restrictions. 



By the will of the late Simeon Smith, of 

 Indiana, DePauw University has recently 

 added $80,000 to her productive endowment. 

 By the terms of the will, $50,000 of this 

 amount has been set aside specifically as an 

 endowment of the department of chemistry. 

 Professor W. M. Blanchard, head of the de- 

 partment, has just returned from his sabbatical 

 year in Europe. 



A GIFT of ten lakhs of rupees for the pro- 

 motion of scientiiic technical knowledge has 

 been made by Dr. Rash Bahari Ghosh to the 

 University of Calcutta. 



Fritz Wilhelm Woll, since 1906 professor 

 of agricultural chemistry in the University of 

 Wisconsin, has been appointed professor of 

 animal nutrition in the University of Cali- 

 fornia. 



De. Max Morse has become a member of the 

 depart of physiology, division of biochemistry, 

 of the University of Wisconsin. 



The following new appointments to the 

 faculty of the school of medicine. University 

 of Pittsburgh, have been made this fall: Dr. 

 W. E. Gardner, assistant demonstrator in 

 anatomy; Dr. J. W. McMeans, assistant in 

 clinical pathology and demonstrator in pathol- 

 ogy; Dr. A. H. MeOreery, E. B. Mellow fellow 

 in pathology; Dr. J. C. Irwin, instructor in 

 obstetrics; Dr. E. J. Cary, demonstrator in 



medicine; Dr. Arthur Miltenberger, assistant 

 demonstrator in obstetrics; Dr. J. H. Seipel, 

 assistant demonstrator in obstetrics; Mr. Or- 

 ville J. Walker, assistant in physiology and 

 pharmacology. The following increases in 

 rank have likewise been provided for: Dr. 

 Chris Gardner, from assistant demonstrator to 

 demonstrator in anatomy; Dr. W. L. Croll, 

 from instructor to assistant professor in 

 obstetrics. 



Dr. Orren Lloyd-Jones, formerly assistant 

 in the department of experimental breeding of 

 the College of Agriculture, University of Wis- 

 consin, has gone to the Iowa Agricultural Col- 

 lege as assistant professor of animal husbandry. 

 He wiU have charge of the work in genetics in 

 that department. 



Professor Otto Wilckens, professor at 

 Jena, has been called to the chair of geology 

 and paleontology at Strasburg, to succeed 

 Professor E. Holtzapfel. 



Dr. Gustav Storring, of Strasburg, has been 

 called to Bonn, to fill the chair of philosophy 

 vacant by the removal of Professor Oswald 

 Kiilpe to Munich. 



DISCUSSION AND CORRESPONDENCE 



ON THE OCCURRENCE OF A PROBABLE NEW 



MINERAL^ 



During the investigations of the carnotite 

 and vanadium deposits of Colorado and Utah, 

 which were carried on last winter for the 

 United States Bureau of Mines by Professor 

 E. B. Moore and myself, a small deposit of 

 what is apparently a new mineral was found. 

 This mineral was located about sixteen miles 

 southeast of Thompsons, Utah, and later on in 

 the workings of a drift near the rini-rocks on 

 the north side of East Paradox Valley, Colo- 

 rado. A very similar material was also found 

 near Green Eiver, Utah. The mineral is a 

 black carbonaceous material which shows a 

 high activity in the electroscope. It occurs in 

 sandstone of Jurassic Age and is found im- 

 bedded in the carnotite. At Thompsons the 

 ore was located at the outcrop on the surface 



1 Published by the permission of the Director of 

 the Bureau of Mines, Washington, D. C. 



