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could be regulated. It is not an illuminating oil, but is sim- 
ilar to that now so abundant at Los Angeles, California. 
Oil has been discovered in the Philippines, and is ex- 
tracted in Panay, Luzon, Mindanao and other islands. In most 
cases it is in a stratum of rock about 350 feet below the surface 
The working is done by the natives, but largely with machinery 
from America. 
W. H. Weed, who has recently spent some time in 
Mexico, has returned to this country, and is now engaged in 
the final investigations at Butte, Montana, preliminary to 
the publication by the U. S. Geological Survey of an ex- 
haustive report upon the economic geology of the Butte dis- 
trict. Mr. Weed expects to complete his studies at Butte in 
about a year, and will then probably commence the study of 
the copper region of New Mexico. 
C. W. Clark, son of U. S. Senator W. A. Clark, of Mon- 
tana, has endowed the Chair of Mining Engineering in the 
Montana State School of Mines, located at Butte, Montana. 
The chair thus established has not yet been filled. 
The Anaconda Copper Mining Company has presented 
to the Montana State School of Mines a rock cutting and a 
rock grinding machine of the best make, and equipped with 
all accessories. It has also presented to the Ad!useum a speci- 
men of chalcocite weighing 3,500 pounds — doubtless the larg- 
est of its kind anywhere on exhibition. It was taken from the 
Never Sweat mine, one of the Anaconda group at Butte. 
The American Association for the Advancement 
OF Science will hold its next annual meeting at Denver, Col- 
orado, August 24 to 31. 
The American Institute of Mining Engineers. The 
eightieth meeting (being the thirty-first annual meeting) was 
held in Richmond, Va., beginning, Tuesday evening, Februarv 
19- 
Mr. J. Edward Spurr, at one time connected with the Min- 
nesota Geological Survey, and more recently with that of 
the National Government, has been appointed geologist to 
the Sultan of Turkey, at a liberal salary and all traveling 
expenses for himself and family, and will shortly depart for 
his new field of labor, with leave of absence for one year from 
the U. S. Geological Survey. It is understood that he is also 
to have a share in any discoveries that he may make, and that 
he is to be provided with suitable assistants and a body guard 
of soldiery. 
Maj. a. W. Vogdes, who has been at San Juan since the 
Spanish war, has returned to New York, and has his address 
at Fort Hamilton. 
A bronze bas-relief of the late Dr. J. S. Newberry has 
been presented to Columbia University by his children. 
