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meeting of the geologists of the northeastern 

 United States, to be held in Philadelphia on 

 Friday and Saturday, April 23 and 24, 1909. 

 It is planned to hold two sessions for the read- 

 ing of papers, and a field trip to typical lo- 

 calities of the Pre-Cambrian and early Paleo- 

 zoic rocks of the region. It is hoped that 

 every one will be able to contribute, if not an 

 extended paper, at least an informal account 

 of work being carried on. Titles should be 

 sent to Professor E. T. Wherry, Lehigh Uni- 

 versity, South Bethlehem, Pa. 



On Thursday evening, March 18, Dr. Bar- 

 ton W. Evermann, assistant in charge of 

 scientific inquiry, Bureau of Fisheries, Wash- 

 ington, D. C, delivered a lecture to the mem- 

 bers of the Massachusetts Fish and Game 

 Protective Association and their invited guests 

 at the Copley Square Hotel in Boston. His 

 subject was " With Packtrain to the Tip-top 

 of the United States in Quest of the Golden 

 Trout," illustrated by numerous stereopticon 

 slides. When it was reported to President 

 Eoosevelt that the golden trout, known only 

 from Volcano Creek in the High Sierra of 

 California, was in danger of extermination, 

 he called upon U. S. Fish Commissioner 

 Bowers to have an investigation made and 

 Dr. Evermann was put in charge of the field 

 party. The golden trout of Volcano Creek 

 proved to be an undescribed species which has 

 been named Salmo roosevelU. Another un- 

 described species was found in Soda Creek, a 

 western tributary of the Kern; and it has 

 been named Salmo whitei, in honor of Stewart 

 Edward White, who suggested the investiga- 

 tions. The expenses of the lecture were paid 

 from the income of the " Ivers Whitney Adams 

 Fund," a gift of $5,000 presented the associa- 

 tion in 1908, by Mr. Ivers Whitney Adams, 

 of Boston, " to secure and provide lectures to 

 be given before the members of said associa- 

 tion at regular or special meetings of each 

 year, but not at annual banquets, said lectures 

 to be illustrated, as far as practicable, and 

 connected with the objects of the association." 



The Geographical Journal states that in 

 190Y Professor Eberhard Fraas discovered an 

 interesting fossil bed in the Upper Cretaceous 

 formation of Tendagu, in the Linde district 



of German East Africa. This deposit con- 

 tained a number of bones of Dinosaurs, the 

 bones of these huge reptiles lying for the most 

 part in their natural position in the marl and 

 sandstone, from which they have weathered out 

 so that they protrude at the surface. The 

 specimens brought back by Professor Fraas 

 are now mounted in the museum at Stuttgart, 

 and have been shown to belong to a herbiv- 

 orous Dinosaur which must have reached a 

 length of about 48 feet, and has been named 

 Gigantosaurus. The specimens are incom- 

 plete, and so much interest has been aroused 

 by them that the German government has 

 decided to send a special expedition to the 

 region, to examine the deposit in detail, and 

 to make additional collections of fossils. 



The honorary secretaries of the Zoological 

 Society of Scotland, which has recently been 

 founded, inform Nature that the society has 

 been formed for the purpose of establishing a 

 living zoological collection and garden at 

 Edinburgh. The garden will be arranged on 

 the system adopted by Herr Hagenbeck, of 

 Hamburg, and will be conducted on scientific 

 lines. When the society has developed suffi- 

 ciently, it is within its scope to establish 

 branch gardens in the other large towns in 

 Scotland. In addition to this, lectures of a 

 popular nature by eminent zoologists will be 

 arranged. The headquarters of the society, 

 and the first and principal garden, will be at 

 Edinburgh. To obtain the necessary capital 

 a garden fund has been opened, to which dona- 

 tions are solicited. The annual subscription 

 is £1 Is., but members who join the society 

 during 1909 pay 10s. only for that year. This 

 will entitle members to all the privileges usual 

 in such a society. The aim of the promoters 

 is to build up a strong society with a large 

 membership, so that a considerable part of the 

 annual sum required for the upkeep of the 

 gardens will be insured from subscriptions, 

 and less dependence will require to be placed 

 on the receipts from the public for admission. 



At the regular monthly meeting of the 

 Biological Club of the Ohio State University 

 on Monday evening, March 1, a special pro- 

 gram in commemoration of the centenary of 

 the birth of Charles Darwin was presented. 



