Editorial Notes. 



Prof. W. H. Carruth has just published, through Holt & Co., an annotated 

 edition of Scheffel's Ekkehard, with introduction, illustrations and map. 



Professor E. H. S. Bailey, who has spent the last six months working with 

 masters in Germany, will return to his post in the department of chemistry about 

 February ist. 



Dr. S. W. Williston has passing through the press a volume entitled "Synopsis 

 of the Families and Genera of North American Diptera." The Bibliography in 

 this number of the Quarterly will appear as an Appendix. 



The Scteiififjc American for January 4th and January nth, has interesting 

 articles on the bicycle, with many illustrations of parts and methods of manufac- 

 ture. 



Prof. F. H. Hodder has published through Eldredge & Bro., Philadelphia, a 

 text book on the governmental machinery of Kansas, state and local, entitled 

 "The Civil Government of Kansas." The introduction consists of a sketch of the 

 history of the state. 



Dr. E. C. Franklin, acting professor of chemistry, has spent some time during 

 the autumn over the newly discovered simple elements argon and helium. He 

 has successfully isolated both gases, preparing a large number of specimen tubes, 

 and used them in demonstrations before his classes. 



The department of Palaeontology has for sale or exchange a magnificent slab, of 

 about twenty square feet in area, of Uintacrinus Socialis from the Kansas Cre- 

 taceous. It has numerous complete heads in excellent preservation. Address 

 Prof. S. W. Williston, Lawrence, Kansas. 



The department of Physical Geology and Mineralogy at the University now has 

 passing through the press volume 1 of the reports of the University Geological 

 Survey of Kansas, and hopes that it will be ready for distribution about the first of 

 April. It will contain about 100 pages of text with many figures and plates, and 

 is devoted almost exclusively to the stratigraphy of the carboniferous area of 

 Kansas. 



A discovery of much interest has recently been made in western Kansas of an 

 extinct species of Bison, the skull having an expanse of nearly four ftc!. Em- 

 bedded below the humerus of the skeleton was a small, bu: perfectly formed arrow 

 head. The Bison has not yet been identified with certainty, but seems closely 

 allied to B. antiquus, though evidently larger. The formation is apparently 

 the same as that which yielded the skeletons of Platygonus recently obtained by 

 the University. The Bison skeleton, that of a bull, will be mounted shortly in 

 the University Museum. 



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