MaecM 26, ISOl] 



SCIENCE. 



515 



Betn Ma we College awards annually three 

 traveling fellowships. One of these has just 

 been awarded to Miss Margaret Hamilton in 

 natural science and one to Miss E. N. Martin 

 in mathematics. 



Me. Aethue H. Pieece, Kellogg fellow of 

 Amherst College, has begun a course of lec- 

 tures on psychology at the College. The Kel- 

 logg fellowship is the most valuable in the gift 

 of any American university. The income of 

 $30,000 is given to the holder for seven years, 

 part of the time to be spent in study abroad, 

 and part in residence at Amherst with certain 

 duties as lecturer. 



The New York Evening Post reports that the 

 museum of economic geology of New York 

 University has recieved a full series of speci- 

 mens illustrating the coal beds in the several 

 anthracite basins. Series exhibiting the peculi- 

 arities of the ores and enclosing rocks have 

 been sent by the oflBcers of eleven important 

 mines in Montana, Nevada, Utah, Colorado 

 and Arizona, and similar series have been re- 

 ceived from several of the more celebrated iron 

 mines. The department of geology has been 

 assigned for the present the south end of the 

 new museum, which is approaching completion. 

 It has a length of between eighty and ninety 

 feet, and a width of over thirty- five feet, and 

 will comprise three sections, namely, the mu- 

 seum section, the laboratory section and the 

 classroom section. The space in the temporary 

 building now occupied by geology will be given 

 to the department of biology. 



An attempt is being made to secure funds for 

 the endowment of a professorship in agriculture 

 and forestry at the University of Cambridge. 

 During the present year a short course of lec- 

 tures on the practice and science of agriculture 

 have been given by Professor Somerville, of the 

 Durham College of Science. 



A DESPATCH to the London Times from St. 

 Petersburg says that more than a thousand stu- 

 dents of the University and other institutions 

 have been arrested at the very doors of the 

 Cathedral of Our Lady of Kazan. They were 

 endeavoring to attend prayers said for the soul 

 of a girl student named VitrofF, who, it is al- 

 leged, set fire to her blanket and burned her- 



self to death in her prison cell, to escape the 

 insults and violence of a prison official. She 

 had been imprisoned since December, on the 

 charge of being a political agitator. 



De. Classen, of the Polytechnic Institute 

 at Aachen, has been appointed professor of 

 chemistry in the University at Kiel; Dr. A. 

 Palladin, professor of plant anatomy and 

 physiology at the University of Warsaw, and Dr. 

 de Vries, docent at the Polytechnic Institute at 

 Delft, professor of geometry in the University 

 of Utrecht. Dr. "W. Beneke has qualified as 

 docent in botany in the University of Stras- 

 burg. 



DISCUSSION AND,.CORBESPONDENCE. 



THE FOEMEE EXTENSION OF ICE IN GEEBNLAND. 



Since the facts in the case will soon be pub- 

 lished there might seem to be no especial need 

 of continuing this discussion, but I do not feel 

 that I should leave it while Professor Cham- 

 berlin is insisting that I have misinterpreted 

 him. It is not a question whether he thought 

 the Upper Nugsuak region had been glaciated, 

 but upon what evidence he has drawn his sweep- 

 ing conclusion that ' the ice fell short ' of half 

 the Greenland coast in a distance of a thousand 

 miles. It would be of interest to know more 

 exactly where the half is, but that is not the 

 point. This conclusion is certainly based upon 

 angular topography, mainly seen from a vessel. 



My contention is that this class of evidence by 

 itself is of no value, and in proof of this I point 

 out that distinctly angular peaks have been gla- 

 ciated and, moreover, that one of the most angu- 

 lar now rises in the midst of the Cornell glacier. 

 I have not seen a thousand miles of the Green- 

 land coast, but have seen nearly half that, in- 

 cluding the island of Disco, the "Waigat Strait 

 and Umenak Fjord. Nowhere in all this dis- 

 tance did I see more rugged topography than 

 that of the Upper Nugsuak peninsula region, as 

 viewed from the sea. Professor Chamberlin 

 thinks that the topography on this peninsula is 

 the partly subdued, not the entirely unsubdued 

 upon which he bases his generalization. It 

 would require much more delicately made ob- 

 servations than any of our party was able to 

 make to detect this difference. 



The prediction is made by Professor Cham- 



