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Wiggleswortli, of the Boston Society of 

 Natural History. It is planned to visit the 

 cliffs of Weyquobsque, Nashaquitsa, and Gay 

 Head, on the island of Martha's Vineyard. In- 

 formation can be obtained from Professor 

 "Woodworth at the Geological Museum, Oxford 

 St., Cambridge, Mass. Circulars will be sent 

 to all persons on the seeretarys list. 



At Harvard University, a plan for an in- 

 vestigation of the stratigraphy of the Ordovi- 

 cian formations of the Appalachians has been 

 approved by the committee on the Shaler Me- 

 morial Fund. Three seasons, under the super- 

 vision of Professor Percy E. Raymond, have 

 been arranged. During the past summer, vcork 

 has been carried on in Vermont, Pennsylvania 

 and Virginia by Dr. Raymond, in collaboration 

 with Mr. Richard M. Pield, lecturer at Brown 

 University, Professor E. W. Shuler, of South- 

 ern Methodist University, and Professor S. L. 

 Powell, of Roanoke College. 



The National Geographic Society^s expedi- 

 tion to Mount Katmai, which sailed for the 

 north on May 28, reached Seattle on September 

 30. The head of the expedition is Dr. Robert 

 E. Griggs, of the Ohio State University. 



The Elisha Mitchell Scientific Society held 

 its business meeting September 20. The fol- 

 lowing officers were elected: Mr. J. G. Beard, 

 president; Dr. J. M. Bell, vice-president; Mr. 

 W. W. Rankin, recording secretary. The fol- 

 lowing board of editors was elected for the 

 Elisha Mitchell Journal: Dr. W. C. Coker, 

 chairman, Mr. M. H. Stacy and Mr. Collier 

 Cobb. The following were elected to member- 

 ship in the society: Dr. A. W. Hobbs, Messrs. 

 B. Markham, H. M. Sharpe and W. W. Kirk; 

 to associate membership in the society : Messrs. 

 J. C. Bynum, L. G. Marsh, G. B. Lay, W. W. 

 Eagle, E. H. Griffin, W. E. Morrison, R. W. 

 Parks, J. W. Sawyer, IST. A. Reasoner, J. W. 

 Smithey, C. H. Herty, Jr., R. H. Rimmer, B. 

 L. Meredith, I. V. Giles, and R. D. Ballew. 



The California Academy of Sciences has 

 provided a course of lectures on popular scien- 

 tific subjects to be given at three o'clock each 

 Sunday afternoon in the auditorium of the 

 Academy's Museum in Golden Gate Park, as 

 follows : 



September 23. Professor S. J. Holmes, depart- 

 ment of zoology, "University of California, "Social 

 evolution and eugenic progress." 



September 30. Professor C. A. Kofoid, depart- 

 ment of zoology. University of California, "A 

 visit to Easter Island, ' ' illustrated by stereopticon. 



October 7. Dr Barton W. Evermann, director, 

 California Academy of Sciences, "Birds of Pyra- 

 mid Lake," illustrated by moving pictures. 



October 14. Dr. Chester Stock, department of 

 paleontology. University of California, "Pleisto- 

 cene caves of California." 



October 21. Dr. H. W. Fairbanks, supervisor of 

 geography, Berkeley Schools, "Influence of cli- 

 mate and topography upon California's develop- 

 ment. ' ' 



Dr. Charles Hughes Johnston, professor of 

 education in the University of Illinois and 

 editor of Educational Administration and Su- 

 pervision, was killed in an automobile accident 

 near Elkridge, Md., on September 3, aged forty 

 years. 



The department of zoology of Smith College 

 has been presented by the Boston Society of 

 Natural History, through its curator. Dr. W. C. 

 Johnson, with a complete collection of the land 

 and freshwater moUusks of Massachusetts. 

 This collection — every specimen of which is ac- 

 curately determined and labelled by Dr. John- 

 son, will serve as a standard of comparison for 

 any one wishing to identify the local moUuscan 

 fauna. 



The Indian Forester, as quoted in Nature, 

 describes the organization of the Chinese Eor- 

 est Service, which came into existence in Jan- 

 uary, 1916, as a subordinate branch of the 

 Ministry of Agriculture and Commerce at 

 Peking. The heads of the service, styled " co- 

 directors," are Mr. Forsythe Sherfesee, for six 

 years employed in, and lately director of, the 

 Philippine Forestry Bureau, and Mr. Ngan 

 Han, who studied forestry in Cornell and 

 Michigan universities several years ago. 

 There are other Chinese in the service, who 

 have received a technical training in the 

 United States, and an expert from Kew, Mr. 

 W. Purdom acts as botanist and is chief of 

 one of the six divisions into which the service 

 is organized. In this article an ambitious pro- 

 gram of afforestation, education, propaganda. 



