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various species of whitefish from lakes in the 

 northern part of the state. This collection 

 was made in order to study the local distri- 

 bution of the local species and varieties of 

 this group of fish. 



The most important new work of the sur- 

 vey, namely, the investigation of the soils of 

 the state, is carried on by the Geological and 

 Natural History Survey, cooperating with the 

 college of agriculture and the bureau of soils 

 of the federal government. This survey is 

 under the general direction of Professor A. 

 E. Whitson, of the college of agriculture. In 

 the developed portions of the state a detailed 

 survey is being made, the counties selected 

 this year being Iowa, Waukesha, Waushara 

 and a portion of Bayfield. Engaged in the 

 field work in these areas are G. B. Jones, P. 

 O. Wood, G. B. Maynadier, J. W. Nelson and 

 Clarence Lounsbury from the bureau of soils, 

 and LeRoy Schoenmann, A. H. Meyer, A. IT. 

 Kuhlman and T. J. Dunnewald from the sur- 

 vey and the college of agriculture. 



In the undeveloped portions of the state a 

 reconnaissance survey is being made. This 

 is in immediate charge of Samuel Weidman, 

 geologist on the survey, assisted by W. S. 

 Smith, of the bureau of soils, E. B. Spraker 

 and E. B. Hall, of the survey, and F. L. Mus- 

 baek, of the college of agriculture. Dr. 

 Weidman is completing the work carried on 

 for some years in several counties of the 

 northwestern portion of the state, and also 

 mapping Marinette County, in the northeast- 

 ern part of the state. It is expected that the 

 field work in all these areas will be completed 

 during the present season. 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 

 At the recent inauguration of Dr. E. F. 

 Nichols as president of Dartmouth College, 

 honorary degrees were conferred on a number 

 of college presidents, including a doctorate of 

 laws on Dr. C. R. Van Hise, president of the 

 University of Wisconsin, and a doctorate of 

 science on Dr. Richard C. Maclaurin, of the 

 Massachusetts Institute of Teclinology. 



On the occasion of the inauguration of Dr. 

 E. B. Bryan as president of Colgate Univer- 



sity, the honorary degree of doctor of science 

 was conferred on Dr. John M. Clarke, state 

 geologist of New York, and on Dr. F. C. 

 Perry, professor of mathematics at Williams 

 College. 



Dr. M. Treub, has retired from the director- 

 ship of the Botanical Garden at Buitenzorg. 



Dr. Emil Rosenberg has retired from the 

 active duties of the chair of anatomy at 

 Utrecht. 



Dr. Tiieodor Weber, emeritus professor of 

 medicine at Halle, has celebrated his eightieth 

 birthday. 



Mr. jAiiES Britten has retired from the 

 botanical department of the British Museum 

 after thirty-eight years of service. 



The Eumford committee of the American 

 Academy of Arts and Sciences has made an 

 additional grant of $300 to Professor L. R. 

 Ingersoll, of the University of Wisconsin, for 

 the continuation of his research on the 

 optical constants of metals. 



The Paris Academy of Medicine has 

 awarded a prize of £160 to M. W. Haffkine 

 for his work on inoculation against cholera. 



In appreciation of his work in the Penn- 

 sylvania State Department of Health, Dr. 

 Samuel G. Dixon, state health commissioner, 

 was presented with a silver loving cup by the 

 county medical inspectors of the state and 

 chiefs of the state tuberculosis dispensaries, 

 at a meeting held in Philadelphia on Oc- 

 tober 5. 



Sir Thom,\s Elliott, secretary to the Brit- 

 ish Board of Agriculture and Fisheries, has 

 been nominated by the French government to 

 be a Companion of the Order " du Merite 

 Agricole." 



A GOLD medal has been presented to Dr. 

 Oswaldo Cruz in recognition of his services ia 

 extirpating yellow fever in Rio de Janeiro. 



Dr. L. Karpinski, of the University of Mich- 

 igan, is spending the year at Columbia Uni- 

 versity, working on the history of mathe- 

 matics. 



The magnetic survey yacht, Carnegie, ar- 

 rived at St. John's, N. F., on September 26 



