Kansas University Weekly.
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G. K. Gilbert.
Prof. G. K. Gilbert, chief geologist of the United States Geological Survey, lectured to a large audience in University hall Wednesday evening, on the subject, "Coon Butte, a Geological Puzzle," the lecture being illustrated by lantern views. Coon Butte is a large crater about two miles in circumference lying in a plain of sandstone and limestone formation in northern Arizona. The rim of the crater rises 200 feet above the plain and the interior drops 400 feet below that level. About the sides of the crater, the layers of limestone have been forced upward. As there is no trace of volcanic rock within several miles, it is certainly not the result of volcanic eruption. From the presence of a great amount of meteoric iron in the vicinity, it was thought that the crater might have been formed by a small star, but the quantity of iron was far too small to establish this theory. The most plausible explanation seems to be that the crater was formed by a tremendous explosion of steam, especially as similar craters have been formed by such explosions in recent years at other places. Still this does not account for the meteoric iron. Altogether, the matter forms a very interesting scientific puzzle.
Prof. Gilbert lectured under the auspices of the Sigma Xi society. He speaks in a very pleasant informal manner and kept his audience fully interested to the end.
Notes from the Department of Chemistry.
The Chemical Club, composed of students in the department of Chemistry has been holding very interesting weekly meetings this year under the direction of Prof. Franklin.
Prof. Franklin has been spending his spare moments since the opening of school this fall in isolating the new elements Helium and Argon both of which were discovered last year.
He expects soon to deliver an address before the Science club with these elements as his subject.
During the absence of Prof. Bailey in Europe the department is in charge of Prof. Franklin. Prof. Franklin has the classes in Quantitative Analysis and General Chemistry and is assisted in the work of these classes by Mr. H. P. Cady. Mr. W. R. Crane has Prof. Bailey's class in Quantitative Analysis. Mr. W. M. Whitten a graduate of Ann Arbor in the class of '95, takes Mr. Leightons work Quantitative Analysis.
The department has recently received a $1,000 consignment of chemical apparatus directly from Berlin. This is the first time that the department has ordered its apparatus directly from Berlin, but everything was received in good order and this method of ordering has proven very satisfactory. The department is now occupying five rooms in the main building. One of these rooms is used by the class in Quantitative; another has been fitted up as a laboratory for the classes in organic chemistry a branch which has previously been without a laboratory, another room is used as a combustion room in organic analysis. Prof. Franklin uses one of the rooms as a private laboratory and the fifth is used as an assistants laboratory and balance room. On the whole the department is much better equipped than ever before in the history of the University.
Yale—Cambrldge.
The following account of the YaleCambridge meet at Manhattan field was clipped from a personal letter from Frank A Lutz to a member of the staff:
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