Febeuaky 3, 1899.] 



SCIENCE. 



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ductiDg the work in close cooperation with 

 the State Geological Survey", the State agri- 

 cultural institutions and the United States 

 Department of Agriculture, to take uplines 

 of research that ■would be of much perma- 

 nent value to the people of the State. Ar- 

 rangements were made for the publication 

 of these investigation»in a uew series of re- 

 ports which should conform in all particu- 

 lars to those already adopted for the State 

 Geological Survey. These volumes, for 

 which arrangements have now been per- 

 fected, will contain the results of investiga- 

 tions upon the climate of the State and will 

 include reports upon the physiography, 

 meteorology, medical climatology, agricul- 

 tural soils, forestry, hydrography, crop con- 

 ditions, botany and zoology of Maryland. 



The reports upon physiography and me- 

 teorologj' are alreadj' largely prepared and 

 will coustitute the first volume of the series. 

 Dr. Cleveland Abbe, Jr., has prepared a 

 report upon the physiography, while the 

 longer and more elaborate statement re- 

 garding the meteorology of the State is di- 

 vided into three parts, the general treat- 

 ment of the subject being from the pen of 

 the distinguished Professor Cleveland Abbe, 

 of the U. S. Weather Bureau. Mr. F. J. 

 Waltz, the Local Forecast Official of the U. 

 S. Weather Bureau in Baltimore and the 

 Meteorologist of the State Weather Service, 

 will contribute the part relating to the me- 

 teorology of the State ; while Mr. O. L. 

 Fassig, his associate, will prepare those 

 chapters which relate to the history of me- 

 teorological investigations in Maryland 

 since early colonial days. The cordial sup- 

 port of Professor Willis L. Moore, Chief of 

 the U. S. Weather Bureau, has been secured 

 in this work, as well as in many of the 

 lines of special investigations which will be 

 later pursued. 



The investigation of the agricultural 

 soils of the State, already referred to in 

 connection with the State Geological Sur- 



vej', are closely related to many of the 

 climatological problems which will be con- 

 sidered in the future, and the active coop- 

 eration of Professor Whitney along these 

 lines will add much to the effectiveness of 

 the State work. Mr. C. W. Dorsey, of the 

 State Agricultural Experiment Station, has 

 been carrying on investigations in this field 

 under the supervision of Professor Whitney, 

 and the results of their combined work will 

 be later brought out in the reports of the 

 State Weather Service. 



The questions of hydrographj' are closely 

 related to those of climatology, and already 

 considerable progress has been made in the 

 study of the drainage basins of Maryland 

 through the cooperation secured from Pro- 

 fessor Newell, in charge of the Division of 

 Hydrography of the U. S. Geological Sur- 

 vey', and special reports upon this subject 

 will be incorjiorated in a later volume of 

 the State Weather Service. 



The other lines of investigation above 

 referred to have been projected, but little 

 work has been done upon them thus far. 

 They will occupy the attention of the local 

 Service during the coming and subsequent 

 years. 



Wm. Bullock Clark, 

 State Geologist and Director State Weather 



Service. 



THE BIOLOGICAL STATIONS OF BRITTANY. 



The marine laboratories of the coasts of 

 France and England can be reached with 

 so little loss of time by students of zoology 

 and botany who live near the Atlantic sea- 

 board in America that a knowledge of the 

 facilities for work at these stations and of 

 their accessibility is of great importance to 

 Americans. 



Aside from the hygienic advantages of 

 the ocean voyage and a complete change of 

 scene to a hai-d-working naturalist who de- 

 votes his summer vacations to scientific re- 

 search, one will in many cases find at some 



