Il8 SMITHSONIAN MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTIONS VOL. 52 



tigate personally ihe results of further borings in the Meteor crater 

 of Canyon Diablo, Arizona. 



A grant has recently been approved in behalf of Miss Alice East- 

 wood to aid in the re-collecting of the types of genera and species of 

 plants collected by Thomas Nuttall in 1836 at Santa Barbara, Cali- 

 fornia, and subsequently described by him. 



Naples Zoological Station 



The Smithsonian seat at the Naples Zoological Station was occu- 

 pied by Mr. I. F\ Lewis, of Johns Hopkins University, during the 

 month of March, and by Prof.. F. M. Andrews, of the Department 

 of Botany of Indiana University, during the months of April and 

 May. 



Assignments of the Smithsonian seat have already been made for 

 the first six months of 1909. The application of Prof. Charles A. 

 Kofoid, of the University of California, has been approved for the 

 first five months of the year, while through the courtesy of Dr. 

 Anton Dohrn, the director of the station, Prof. Michael T .Guyer, 

 of the University of Cincinnati, will also occupy a seat through the 

 months of A])ril and May, as well as through the month f)f June. 



