ECOLOGICAL PAPERS. 133 



ECOLOGICAL STUDIES OF THE PIL\IRIE AXD FOREST 



IX ILLINOIS. 



By Charles C. -\dams, 



University of Illinois, Urbana. 



(Abstract.) 



During August, 1910, the writer, representing the Illinois State 

 Laboratory of Natural Histon.-. T. L. Hankinson of the Eastern 

 Illinois Normal School, and E. N. Transeau, co-operated in an 

 ecological reconnoissance of the vicinity of Charleston, Coles 

 County, Illinois. Representative patches of prairie and forest 

 were examined, described, photographed ; the plants and animals 

 were studied and their inter-relations were studied as fully as 

 time would permit. A report on the work is in preparation, in 

 which Transeau describes the vegetation, Hankinson the verte- 

 brate, and Adams the invertebrate associations. It is planned to 

 make this report an example of what kind of work may be 

 expected from local studies in which only a limited amount of time 

 is available. 



A HANDBOOK FOR STUDENTS OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY. 



By Charles C. Adams, 



L^niversity of Illinois, Urbana. 



(Outline.) 



The plan of this handbook may be indicated by its contents as 

 follows : Aim, methods, points of view, ecological survey, work- 

 ing plan, field study, taking notes, collecting and preserv'ing speci- 

 mens, determination of specimens, sources of facts needed in 

 ecological studies, and concluding with a selected annotated list 

 of papers dealing with the laws of change in the environment, in 

 the organisms and the relative adjustment between the organism 

 and the environment. 



