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year at Cornell University. Of these 136 are 

 in the department of arts and sciences and 137 

 in the Sibley College of Mechanical Engineer- 

 ing. There are 18 candidates for the doctorate, 

 14 in philosophy and 4 in science. 



The will of the late Miss Brown, of Water- 

 haugh, Ayrshire, leaves £5,000 both to the Uni- 

 versity of Edinburgh and to the University of 

 Glasgow. 



The Cambridge Syndidate appointed to con- 

 sider the question of degrees for women have 

 issued a second report, in which they state that 

 after carefully considering the discussion of 

 their first report they adhere to their recom- 

 mendations. The statute recommended is as 

 follows : " The University shall have power to 

 grant, by diploma, titles of degrees in Arts, Law, 

 Science, Letters and Music to women who, 

 either before or after the confirmation of this 

 statute, have fulfilled the conditions which shall 

 be required of them for this purpose by the 

 ordinances of the University, and also shall 

 have power to grant by diploma the same titles 

 honoris causa to women who have not fulfilled 

 the usual conditions but have been recom- 

 mended for such titles by the Council of the 

 Senate ; provided always that a title granted 

 under this section shall not involve member- 

 ship of the University." 



DISCUSSION AND CORRESPONDENCE. 

 FORMER EXTENSION OF ICE IN GREENLAND. 



I HAD not intended writing on this subject 

 again, but Professor Chamberlin's criticism* 

 of my paper in the Bulletin of the Geological 

 Society of America calls for a reply. For the 

 benefit of those, if there are any, who think 

 that problems of Greenland glacial geology can 

 be settled at long range, by a comparison of 

 photographs, I wish to point out that Professor 

 Chamberlin has selected for publication, not 

 the view in my paper, which does show some 

 ruggedness, but one inserted primarily to show 

 glaciated topography. Therefore I can agree 

 with some of Professor Chamberlin's remarks. 



Had my critic sailed along this coast he would 

 have seen the Devil's Thumb as a high peak 



* Science, p. 748, and in a somewhat different 

 form in Jourii. Geol, V., 1897, p. 303. 



with serrated sky line, precipitous front and 

 numerous evidences of ruggedness. He would 

 not have seen the well glaciated back, which 

 my view shows, and would not have known 

 that, while in all other places the peak is inac- 

 cessible, the ascent from the glaciated back was 

 easy. Had he made this ascent he would have 

 found even more distinct evidence of rugged- 

 ness and, throwing a stone as large as one's 

 head, would have found that from five to seven 

 seconds elapsed before it struck, indicating a 

 nearly sheer precipice of perhaps 500 feet. 

 Whether this would have been classed as angu- 

 lar and unsubdued I cannot, of course, say ; 

 but my classification of it, in the view obtained 

 from the sea, is distinctly unsubdued. Some 

 idea of the nature of this west face (or left side) 

 may be gained from the photograph, though the 

 cliff is three or four miles from the camera and 

 the picture, as printed, far less distinct than 

 the original view. Dozens of hills in this re- 

 gion have the same characteristics, including 

 Fig. I., plate 27 (in my article), in which, how- 

 ever, glaciated topography is seen in the back- 

 ground on the right, which would not have 

 been seen from sea-level. 



I have nothing to say concerning my query 

 about the ' driftless area,' which, judging from 

 the warmth of the reply, seems to be resented. 

 Nor do I feel called upon to defend my use of 

 the term Devil's Thumb. From Professor 

 Chamberlin's remarks one would infer, what 

 is not the case, that I had made an error in 

 placing names. Geologists would be under- 

 taking a very serious task if they attempted to 

 verify the maps they use. The Ryder map, 

 from which the name is adopted, is based on an 

 official Danish Survey, and for the region is quite 

 remarkably accurate. Since this map is pub- 

 lished in my paper, and a foot-note announces 

 my belief that Ryder has made an error in 

 naming the mountain the Devil's Thumb, no 

 real confusion will arise in the minds of those 

 who read my paper carefully and candidly. 



Professor Chamberlin makes another mistake 

 when he says that I insist ' upon general glaci- 

 ation.' I have never done this, but have 

 brought forward evidence which, I believe, 

 proves the opposite conclusion to be a generali- 

 zation based upon questionable field methods, 



