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��the parts that are now entirelj mumr- T^ed and unmapped only amount to about one seventh instead of a little OTor one half, which was roughly the amount in 1860.

An estimate of the eondition of the world's surveys as represented by the differently tinted areas on the maps for I860 and 1916, taking the total area of the land-surface of the earth together with the unknown parts of the Arctic and Antarctic regions which may be either land or water, to be 60,000,000 square miles, gives in square miles The results shown on page 519.

SCIENTIFIC ITEMS

Wk record with regret the death of Professor Charles Smith Pressor, head of the department of geology of the Ohio State University; of Dr. Joseph Hoeing Kastle, director of the experi- ment station of the University of Ken- tucky; of Dr. LeBoy Clark Cooley, emeritus professor of physics at Vassar College; of Professor Levi Leonard Conant, head of the department of mathematics at the Worcester Poly- technic Institute; of Sir T. Lauder Brunton, F.B.S., distinguished for his work in pharmacology; of Dr. V. von Csemy, professor of surgery at Heidel- berg, and of Don Jos6 Echegaray, pro- fessor of mathematical physics at Madrid, distinguished also as a poet and dramatic author.

Snt Chables Parsons, the engineer, has been elected president of the British Association for the meeting to be held at Bournemouth in September next.

��Bt vote of the board of trustees a bronse bust of Professor Thonas Chrowder Chamberlin will be placed im- mediately in Bosenwald Hall, Univer- sity of Chicago, thus recognizing his long service to the university. Dr. Chamberlin has been professor and head of the department of geology since re- signing the presidency of Wisconsin University in 1892.

Undib the will of Eckley Brinton Coxe, Jr., late president of the Univer- sity of Pennsylvania Museum, the uni- versity was bequeathed the sum of $500,000 as an endowment fund for tlie maintenance of the museum, its publi- cations and expeditions. He also be- queathed the sum of $100,000 to the university, the income of which is to be used towards increasing the salaries of professors.

Seth Low, president of Columbia University from 1890 to 1901, and trus- tee from 1881 to 1914, by his will, be- queathed $15,000 to a cousin and $12,- 000 to the daughter of his former nurse, half of these sums to go to Columbia University on their deaths. On the death of Mrs Low several educational bequests became effective. Oflmton Christian College will receive about $70,000, the University of Virginia, Berea College and the Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute will each re- ceive about $50,000. Mr. Low gave large gifts to Columbia University dur- ing his presidency, including the sum of $1,200,000 for the erection of the library building in memory of his father.

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