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SCIENCE 



[N. S. Vol. XLIX. No. 1254 



ture generations will see the glories of tlie 

 completed monument! 



Julius Stieglitz 

 The University of Chicago, 

 Chicago, 



November 22, 1918 



EDUCATIONAL EVENTS 



BIOLOGICAL SURVEYS OF STATES BY THE 



UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF 



AGRICULTURE 



Katural history surveys, dealing with the 

 geographical distribution, habits and relations 

 to environment of birds and mammals, with 

 particular reference to the utility of the in- 

 formation gathered to the proper solution of 

 problems in game protection, public health, 

 forestry, grazing and agricultural practise, 

 were carried forward in several states by the 

 United States Biological Survey, Department 

 of Agriculture, and cooperating institutions 

 during the field season of 1918. 



In Wisconsin the work of the Biological 

 Survey was conducted, as since the beginning 

 of investigations in that state, with the co- 

 operation of the Wisconsin Geological and 

 Natural History Survey, of which J)t. E. A. 

 Birge is director. The personnel of the field 

 party operating during the season included 

 Dr. Hartley H. T. Jackson, Biological Survey, 

 in personal charge; Mr. A. J. Poole, TJ. S. Na- 

 tional Museum, as his temporary assistant, for 

 the Wisconsin Survey, and Mr. A. I. Orten- 

 burger, temporary assistant Professor George 

 Wagner, of the University of Wisconsin, ad- 

 ministers the interests of the Wisconsin Sur- 

 vey in the undertaking. Investigations were 

 made in the distribution and habits of mam- 

 mals, birds, reptiles and amphibians, the 

 greater portion of the season being devoted 

 to the upper Wisconsin Eiver valley. 



In central Montana Mr. M. A. Hanna, tem- 

 porary field assistant, prosecuted the work 

 under the direction of Mr. Edward A. Preble. 

 This is the third consecutive season of field 

 work in Montana, during which the southern 

 half of the state east of the mountains has 

 been covered. 



A biological survey of Florida was under- 



taken by Mr. Arthur H. Howell, with Mr. 

 Charles H. M. Barrett as field assistant for a 

 part of the time. Investigations were made 

 chiefly in the southern part of the state from 

 Lake Okeechobee to Cape Sable and on the 

 west coast from Sarasota Bay northward to 

 Homosassa. Special attention was given to 

 the fauna of the Royal Palm State Park, iu 

 the southern Everglades near Homestead. 



Field investigations in Arizona in general 

 charge of Mr. E. A. Goldman, now in France 

 as a major in the Sanitary Corps, have been 

 conducted over several seasons, being carried 

 forward during the past summer in extreme 

 southwestern Arizona by Mr. A. Brazier 

 Howell, of California. There is left still un- 

 worked the southeastern portion only of the 

 state. 



Surveys of New Mexico, North Dakota and 

 Oregon have recently been completed imder 

 the general direction of Mr. Vernon Bailey. 

 Reports on the mammals, birds and life zones 

 of these states are completed or in various 

 stages of preparation. 



Work in Washington was performed in in- 

 formal cooperation with the State College of 

 Washington, Pullman, and the State Normal ' 

 School, Cheney. The personnel of the field 

 parties operating included: Biological Survey, 

 Dr. Walter P. Taylor, in charge, assisted by 

 Mr. George G. Cantwell, reservation inspector, 

 and for a short time by Mr. Stanley G. Jewett, 

 predatory animal inspector; State College of 

 Washington, Professor William T. Shaw, in 

 charge, assisted by Mr. O. H. Homme, tem- 

 porary field assistant; State Normal School, 

 Cheney, Professor J. W. Hungate. During 

 the two consecutive seasons involved investi- 

 gations have been carried forward in the 

 southern Cascades, along the Columbia River, 

 in a broad belt across the state from Spokane 

 to Puget Sound, and in southwestern Wash- 

 ington. Mr. Cantwell is continuing the work 

 through the fall and winter months. 



THE CENSUS BUREAU 



AccoEDiNG to the annual report of Director 

 Rogers, of the Bureau of the Census, the 



