October 23, 1903.] 



SCIENCE. 



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The New York Zoological Park has received 

 during the past week a cousigniiient of ani- 

 mals from Hagenbeek's agency at Hamburg. 

 The collection includes a pair of giraffes, 

 valued at $15,000 and some twenty-five other 

 animals. 



A PRELIMIN'.YRY statement showing the coal 

 production of the United States, prepared by 

 Mr. Edward W. Parker, statistician, has just 

 been issued by the United States Geological 

 Survey. The statistics, though subject to 

 slight revision and correction because of a 

 few incomplete returns, are sufficiently correct 

 to enable comparisons to be made between the 

 production of 1902 and that of former years. 

 For the first time in the history of the United 

 States the production of coal has reached a total 

 of over 300,000,000 short tons, showing an ac- 

 tual output of 300,930,659 tons of 2000 pounds, 

 valued at $373,133,843. Of this total, the out- 

 put of anthracite coal amounted to 36,865,710 

 long tons (equivalent to 41,289,595 short tons), 

 which, as compared with production of 60,242,- 

 560 long tons in 1901, shows a decrease of 

 23,376,850 long tons, or almost 40 per cent. 

 This decrease, as is well known, was due en- 

 tirely to the suspension of operations by the 

 strike in the anthracite region from May 10 

 to October 23, a little over five months. Had 

 it not been for the strike, which practically 

 stopped production in the anthracite region 

 for this length of time, the output for the 

 year would have probably attained a total of 

 over 65,000,000 long tons. The value at the 

 mines of the product in 1902 amounted to 

 $81,016,937, as against $112,504,020 in 1901, 

 a loss of about 27 per cent. The average value 

 of the marketed coal sold during the year at 

 the mines was $2.50 per long ton, the value 

 in 1901 having been $2.05. The comparatively 

 small amount of anthracite which was mined 

 during the strike, which brought such ex- 

 orbitant prices, did not have the effect on the 

 total production that might have been ex- 

 pected. 



In his report to the United States Geolog- 

 ical Survey on the production of petroleum 

 in 1902, now in press, Mr. F. H. Oliphant 

 gives the following table showing approxi- 



mately the production of crude petroleum in 

 all the known countries of the world, together 

 with the percentages of each for 1902, in terms 

 of United States barrels. A small estimated 

 quantity is placed under the head of ' all 

 other countries,' included in which is the 

 primitive production in several of the South 

 American States, and in Algeria, Persia, the 

 Philippines and China, from which no re- 

 turns could be secured. The total increase 

 in 1902 amounted to almost 7 per cent, as 

 compared with 1901, dnd to almost 20 per 

 cent, as compared with 1900. The most con- 

 spicuous items in the list are the increase 

 in the production of the United States and 

 the decrease in the production of Russia, the 

 result being that the output of these two 

 countries reached nearly the same figures in 

 1902. In 1902 the United States and Eussia 

 produced 91.08 per cent, of the total output, 

 as compared with 93.22 per cent, in 1901 and 

 with 94.11 per cent, in 1900. Of the remain- 

 ing 8.92 per cent, produced by all Other 

 countries, Sumatra, Java. Borneo, Galicia 

 and Eoumania, which furnished only 4.65 

 per cent, in 1901, furnished 6.82 per cent, in 

 1902, leaving 2.10 per cent, of the total as the 

 output of the other producing countries. 



United States | 80,894,590 



Canada 520,000 



Peru 60,000 



Kussia 80,540,045 



Galicia 4,142,160 



Sumatra, Java, Borneo. 



Roumania 



India 



Japan 



Ocrmanv 



Italy...* 



All other Countries. 



5,860,000 

 2,059,930 

 1,570,500 

 1,193,000 

 353,675 

 12,0001 

 26,000 /■ 

 Total 1177,231,900 



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 100.00 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS. 



L. II. Se\'erance, of Cleveland, has agreed 

 to give $100,000 toward the fund of $1,000,000 

 which it is proposed to raise as an endowment 

 for Wooster University. 



The visiting committee having in ciiarge 

 the raising of money to build Emerson Hall 

 for the Department of Philosophy at Har- 

 vard University has turned over to the treas- 



