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Warp, Lester F.—Continued. 
of Maryland, Virginia, and the District of Co- 
lumbia. From the study of these beds the 
conclusion is reached that the lower Potomac 
has a flora that is essentially Wealden, and 
also that the Wealden is Lower Cretaceous 
rather than Jurassic. 
WIELAND, G. R. 
Ward. ) 
(See under Lester F. 
OCEANOGRAPHY. 
AGassiz, ALEXANDER. Reports on the 
scientific results of the expedition to 
the eastern tropical Pacific, in charge 
of Alexander Agassiz; by the U. S. 
Fish Commission steamer Albatross, 
from October, 1904, to March, 1905, 
Lieut. Commander L. M. Garrett, U.S. 
Navy, commanding. v.—General re- 
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Memoirs Mus. Comp. Zool., XXXII, 1906, 
pp. 1-xili, 1-75, 96 plates and 8 text figs. 
Contains accounts of the hydrography, char- 
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depths, temperatures, specific gravities, 
winds, records of stations occupied, and brief 
descriptions of some of the islands visited. 
A contribution to the 
oceanography | of the Pacifie | com- 
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United | States steamer Nero while 
Furnt, James M. 
REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1906. 
Fuint, JAMES M.—Continued. 
engaged in | the survey of a route for 
a | trans-Pacific cable | — | By | 
James M. Flint. | Medical Director, U. 
8. Navy; Curator, Division of Medicine, 
U. S. National Museum | [Seal] | 
Washington | Government Printing 
Office | 1905. | 
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to Luzon, andalso from Guam to Japan. The 
number of soundings made was 2,074. The 
author gives an account of the track, depths, 
gradients, temperatures, and character of the 
bottom, the deposits at a selected number of 
stations being recorded in detail. 
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Dati, Wititam Heauey. Obituary no- 
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A brief memoir of one who was for years a 
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of the National Museum. 
Obituary notice, 
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Brief memoir of a distinguished associate 
in the work of the Museum. 
John Wesley 
