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Research Scholarships, Physical, (1) J. H. 

 Macyagan Wedtlerburn, M.A. P^dinburgh; (2) 

 Henry W. Malcolm, M.A. Aberdeen; (3) 

 James R. Milne, B.Sc. EdiubuTgh ; (4) 

 Thomas B. Morley, B.Sc. (Engin.) Glasgow. 

 Chemical, (5) Joseph Knox, B.Sc. Aberdeen; 

 (6) John Johnston, B.Sc. St. Andrews; (7) 

 Forsyth James Wilson, B.Sc. Edinburgh. 

 Biological, (8) Sydney F. Ashby, B.Sc. 

 (Agric.) Edinburgh; (9) Robert Thomson 

 Leiper, M.B., Ch.B. Glasgow; (10) Henry J. 

 Watt, M.A. Aberdeen. Pathological, Charles 

 Todd Andrew, B.Sc, M.B., Ch.B., Aberdeen; 

 Alexander Matheson, M.A., B.Sc, M.B., Ch.B., 

 Glasgow; M. Logan Taylor, M.B., Ch.B., Glas- 

 gow; S. A. K. Wilson, M.A., M.B.. Ch.B., 

 B.Sc, Edinburgh. Historical, Alan 0. Ander- 

 son, M.A., Edinburgh. Economical, John 

 Young, M.A., St. Andrews. Linguistic, John 

 Purves, M.A., Edinburgh. Research gi-ants 

 were also awarded to fifty applicants. 



. AccoRDiXG to the report to the United 

 States Geological Survey for 1902 by Dr. 

 Joseph Hyde Pratt, the production of crude 

 tungsten ores during 1902 amounted to 183.5 

 tons, of which not more than a few tons were 

 sold. The production of 1901 was 179 tons 

 of concentrated ore, valued at $27,720. The 

 larger part of the production of 1902 was from 

 Colorado, with a smaller amount from Con- 

 necticut. No new localities were developed 

 during 1902. Almost the entire production of 

 commercial molybdenite was by the Crown 

 Point Mining Company, of Seattle, Washing- 

 ton, from their property in the western part of 

 Chelan County. The production amounted 

 to about twelve tons. The value of the ores 

 is very erratic, the prices quoted varying from 

 $1,500 to $100 per ton. There was a marked 

 increase in the production of uranium and 

 vanadium minerals in 1902, which, as reported 

 to the Suri-ey, amounted to 3,810 tons, valued 

 at $48,125, or $12.63 per ton. This, of 

 course, represented the crude ore. In 1901 

 the production was 375 tons of crude ore. A 

 portion of the uranium ore was treated, giving 

 a concentrated product of 25 tons, which was 

 valued at $8,000, or $320 per ton. Although 



it has been determined that these metals have 

 beneficial effects when used in the manufacture 

 of steel, considerable study of them is neces- 

 sary before their commercial positions with 

 respect to one another or to nickel and chrom- 

 ium can be definitely determined. Questions 

 came up as to which of the various irons 

 hardened by them are best adapted for steel 

 drills, for dies and shoes in stamp mills, for 

 oar axles, carpenters' tools, etc, as to which 

 will retain the best cutting edge, which will 

 heat the least when in use and which will 

 make the toughest iron. Mr. A. B. Frenzel, 

 of Denver, Colorado, has offered prizes at a 

 number of the schools of mines in the United 

 States for investigations of these ferro-alloys 

 in relation to the matters mentioned above. 



A XEW division has been established in the 

 Geological Survey, entitled the ' Division of 

 Alaskan Mineral Resources,' which will em- 

 brace all of the investigations and surveys 

 being carried on in Alaska. This division is 

 coordinate with the others of the geologic 

 branch of the survey and its chief will report 

 to the director. For some years past ex- 

 tensive surveys and investigations have been 

 systematically carried on in Alaska, the re- 

 sults of which have appeared in more than 

 twenty publications of the Geological Survey, 

 accompanied by extensive maps. These re- 

 ports have been for the most part devoted 

 to the discussion of the mineral resources of 

 Alaska, and have proved of great practical 

 benefit to prospectors and miners. This work 

 is being pushed as rapidly as the appropriation 

 will allow. The Alaskan division has now 

 seven parties in the field, of which two are 

 mapping and investigating the placers of the 

 Nome region, two the gold deposits of the 

 Yukon, another the coal-bearing rocks of the 

 Yukon, the sixth is making a reconnaissance 

 of the petroleum fields of Controller Bay and 

 Cook Inlet, and the seventh is making a re- 

 connaissance of the vein deposits of the 

 Juneau and adjacent districts. Mr. Alfred 

 H. Brooks has been made chief of the new 

 division, with the official designation of 

 geologist-in-charge. Division of Alaskan Min- 

 eral Resources. Mr. Brooks has been en- 



