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prize, Cretan Exploration Fund; Egypt Ex- 

 ploration Fund; Palestine Exploration Fund. 



According to Mr. F. H. Olipliant, in the 

 annual report of the U. S. Geological Survey, 

 the total production of crude petroleum in the 

 United States in 1903 was 100,461,337 barrels, 

 a gain of 11,694,421 barrels, or 13.17 per cent, 

 over the production of 1902. The great in- 

 crease was mainly due to the remarkable out- 

 put in California, which is now larger than 

 that of any other state. California produced 

 24.27 per cent., or nearly one fourth of the 

 entire production. Next to California the 

 largest gain in production was in Indiana, 

 which was 1,705,515 barrels, an amount that 

 represents a gain of 22.80 per cent, over the 

 state's production in 1902. Kansas showed 

 a remarkable gain in production — 600,465 bar- 

 rels, or 181 per cent. ; Kentucky and Louisiana 

 showed gains of about 369,000 barrels each; 

 Indian Territory gained 101,811 barrels, or 

 274.4 per cent. ; and New York gained 43,248 

 barrels, or 3.86 per cent. On the other hand, 

 there was a slight decrease of production, 

 128,086 barrels, or 0.708 per cent., in Texas; 

 and Ohio, Pennsylvania and West Virginia 

 all showed decreased production, amounting 

 to a total of 1,856,619 barrels, or 3.98 per cent., 

 in 1903 as compared with 1902. The largest 

 decrease in production in 1903 was in Pennsyl- 

 vania, and amounted to 708,724 barrels. Dur- 

 ing the last six years there has been a very 

 remarkable change in the percentage of the 

 local production. The Appalachian and the 

 Lima-Indiana fields, which for many years 

 produced all but a very small percentage of 

 the whole, produced in the year 1903 only 

 55.38 per cent, of the total, whereas in 1898 

 these fields produced 93.99 per cent, of the 

 total. California and Texas have been the 

 most important factors in bringing about the 

 readjustment of the percentages of production. 



UyiVERSITY AND EDUGATWNAL NEWS. 

 Mr. W. a. Eiebling, of Newark, N. J., has 

 sent an additional $10,000 to the Rensselaer 

 Polytechnic Institute, Troy, N. Y., to be used 

 in replacing the building destroyed by fire. 

 Mr. Eiebling gave $10,000 last June. A gift 



of $5,000 from Mr. George B. Cluett is also 

 announced. 



Wbllesley College has received $7,200 

 from the Robert Charles Billings fund, the 

 income of which is to be applied to the depart- 

 ment of botany. 



Mr. Thojeas McLean has bequeathed £5,000 

 to the University of Birmingham for the De- 

 partment of Physics. 



Nature states that Professor Woodliead has 

 obtained from friends resident in or connected 

 with Huddersfield a sum of more than 1600L 

 for the endowment of a Huddersfield lecture- 

 ship in special pathology at Cambridge. 



The New York Evening Post states that 

 it is probable that the work which Dr. William 

 Osier has been doing at Johns Hopkins will 

 be divided when Dr. Osier goes to assume the 

 regius professorship of medicine at Oxford. 

 It has been suggested that Dr. William H. 

 Welch, now Baxley professor of pathology at 

 Johns Hopkins and pathologist to the hospital, 

 be apijointed professor of medicine and direct- 

 or of that department, and that Dr. William 

 S. Thayer, who has been closely associated 

 with Dr. Osier, at Johns Hopkins, be ap- 

 pointed professor of clinical medicine, and Dr. 

 Lewellys F. Barker, of Chicago, be appointed 

 professor of experimental medicine. 



Mr. W. McKim Marriott, assistant in the 

 departmeijt of chemistry. University of North 

 Carolina, has accepted a research assistantship 

 in the chemical department of the Cornell 

 Medical College in New York City. 



Professor Arthur Eobinson, of King's 

 College, London, has been appointed to the 

 chair of anatomy at the University of Birm- 

 ingham, in succession to Professor B. C. A. 

 Windle, now president of Queen's College, 

 Cork. 



Dr. Gisbert Kapp, lecturer on dynamo con- 

 struction in the Technical Institute, Charlot- 

 tenburg, Berlin, has been elected the first pro- 

 fessor of electrical engineering at Birming- 

 ham. 



Mr. F. F. BlacivMan, of St. John's College, 

 Cambridge, has been ajii^ointed reader in 

 botany in the place of Mr. Francis Darwin. 



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