566 The American Naturalist. [June, 
petroleum products. The specimens exhibited are for final deposit 
in the National Museum, at Washington, D. C. 
This being the last meeting of the Geological Section before the 
summer vacation, adjournment was made till October.—Ricuarp E. 
DODGE, Secretary. 
SCIENTIFIC NEWS. 
A bill before the Michigan legislature to change the name of the 
Michigan Mining School to the Michigan College of Mines became a 
law early in April, and the latter is now the proper name of the institu- 
tion. The students and the people of the Upper Peninsula generally 
have accepted the new name gladly, considering it much more appro- 
priate for the character of the work done in the institution. 
Another bill which has been pending for some time regarding the 
charging of tuition has been passed, fixing the rate at $25.00 for resi- 
dents of Michigan, and not less than $50.00 or more than $200.00 for 
those residing outside of Michigan. The exact rate has not yet been 
determined by the Board of Control of the College. The question is 
under consideration, and in all probability will be fixed at $150.00 for 
non-residents of Michigan. This amount of tuition fee will correspond 
with that charged by other first grade technical schools in America, 
such as Columbia College School of Mines, the Rensselaer Polytechnic 
Institute, the Stevens Institute of Technology, and the Massachusetts 
Institute of Technology. 
When the school was working out its policy, trying to solve its edu- 
cational problems, it was thought wisest to charge no tuition, but to 
collect as wide a constituency as possible in order that there might be 
all possible chance to make the methods as broad and thorough as could 
be done. It was also deemed hardly just to the students educated here 
to demand tuition until the institution was much better equipped for 
its work than the appropriations granted during the first decade of its 
‘existence permitted. Now that success has been attained in edycating 
men for practical work, as is evidenced by the positions which its eighty- 
six graduates hold, a list of which is given in the last catalogue, the 
institution s seems fully warranted in charging hereafter for its instruc- 
tion. 
The new law goes into effect immediately after August 19, 1897, and 
will therefore not apply to students entering previous to that time. 
