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of the eastern Rocky Mountains and of the geological position and 
age of many thousands of feet of the sandstones, shales, and lme- 
stones forming the mountains in northern Montana, British Colum-: 
bia, and Alberta. 
On the return an examination was made of the geological forma- 
tions in the vicinity of Helena, Mont., and of the Wasatch Range, 
southeast of Salt Lake City, Utah. 
Three additional papers giving a summary of the results of my 
studies in Cambrian Geology and Paleontology were published dur- 
ing the year: No. 3, Cambrian Brachiopoda: Descriptions of new 
genera and species; No. 4, Classification and terminology of the 
Cambrian Brachiopoda; and No. 5, Cambrian sections of the Cordil- 
leran area.? 
GEOLOGICAL INVESTIGATIONS IN THE FAR EAST. 
In May, 1909, a Smithsonian grant was made to Prof. Joseph P. 
Iddings, of the United States Geological Survey and the University 
of Chicago, for geological investigations in Japan, eastern China, 
and Java. Professor Iddings, who was graduated in the Columbia 
School of Mines in 1878-79, and in microscopic petrography by the 
University of Heidelberg in 1879-80, is well fitted for a research of 
this kind. His connection with and acquaintance in various foreign 
scientific societies will be of assistance in prosecuting this remote 
investigation, which will be reported fully as it progresses. 
BOTANICAL COLLECTIONS. 
Work under a small grant to Miss Alice Eastwood, for re-collect- 
ing the botanical species secured by the botanist Thomas Nuttall in 
1836 in the region of Santa Barbara, Cal., has been successfully prose- 
cuted, as mentioned in the last report. Asa result, Miss Eastman has 
sent to the National Museum two sets of plants, one of 341 desirable 
specimens, which have been mounted for the National Herbarium. 
The second, and by a few specimens the smaller set, will be used for 
exchange purposes, many valuable additions to the Herbarium being 
frequently secured in this manner. 
INVESTIGATIONS UNDER THE HODGKINS FUND. 
As stated in the last report, I have given consideration to the use 
of the portion of the Hodgkins fund devoted to the increase and 
diffusion of more exact knowledge of the atmospheric air in rela- 
tion to the welfare of man. While much valuable work has been 
done under this fund, it appeared to me that it would be more in 
consonance with the ideas of the founder, if at least a portion of it 
might be employed in some way to aid in the knowledge of the 
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