November 15, 1895.] 



SGIENGE. 



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Marks. The meetings are open not only to 

 psychologists, but to all interested in the 

 progress of psychology. 



GENERAL. 



A RECENT Bulletion (ISTo. 119) of the U. 

 S. Geological Survey by Mr. G. H. Eldridge 

 describes the area in northwestern Wyom- 

 ing that lies immediately south of Montana 

 and some distance east of the Yellowstone 

 Ifational Pai-k. It is occupied by the Wind 

 River and Big Horn River basins, and is 

 chiefly covered bj- the Wasatch and Bridger 

 strata of the Eocene, bj' Cretaceous and 

 Jura-Trias, with minor areas of Carbonifer- 

 ous, Silurian, Cambrian, Archean and erup- 

 tive rocks. The region has long been a 

 fruitful source of Eocene vertebrate fossils, 

 and in its northwestern portion is now an 

 important center of coal mining, as it has 

 rail connections. Mr. Eldridge gave these 

 matters of mineral resources especial atten- 

 tion, and after a geological sketch, based on 

 a colored map, he takes up the following- 

 topics : Coal, with numerous analyses and 

 cross-sections, petroleum, building materi- 

 als, gold, hot springs and agriculture. The 

 bulletin extends our knowledge to an area 

 about which little detailed information had 

 been previouslj^ available. 



During the past summer Dr. Leonhard 

 Stejneger, while at Bering Island, was for- 

 tunate enough to secure some bones of 

 Pallas' Cormorant at the locality where he 

 had found others in 1882. At the time 

 these were the only known bones of this 

 extinct species. Among the more recently 

 obtained specimens is a fairly complete 

 cranium which is somewhat larger than 

 that of any existing species, and is peculiar 

 in the character of the ethmoid and open- 

 ing in the front part of the cranium. Mr. 

 Grebnitski has also procured some remains 

 of Pallas' Cormorant from the same de- 

 posit. 



The Library Bureau of London has in- 



augurated a Publishers' Central Showroom, 

 to which most of the great English pub- 

 lishers will send all of their publications 

 for inspection. To give the collection the 

 character of a permanent exhibition and 

 divest it of all the appearance of advertis- 

 ing, no books will be sold at the showroom 

 and no orders taken. 



Part 6 of- Minnesota Botanical Studies 

 is entirely given to Miss Josephine E. Til- 

 den's Bibliography of American Alga\ 

 JSTo less than 1,5-14 titles of papers are listed, 

 although the work professes to be but a 

 preliminary survey of the literature. This 

 is one of the most complete and valuable 

 pieces of special bibliographic work yet 

 prepared for American botany. 



In addition to the teaching botanical 

 garden of the University of Pennsylvania, 

 which has recently been greatly improved 

 and enlai-ged under the direction of Pro- 

 fessor Macfarlane, the University will 

 have the scientific management of Ber- 

 tram's Gardens, which have recently been 

 made one of the city's parks. 



A meeting of the directors of the Marine 

 Biological Laboratory of Wood's Holl was 

 held in Boston on November 7th. It was 

 reported that the attendance during the 

 past summer had been large and that there 

 had been an increase in the number of the 

 cooperating educational institutions. Gifts 

 had been received by the treasurer during 

 the year amounting to $2,348. The labora- 

 tory is to a certain extent self-supporting, 

 but subscriptions are needed for enlarge- 

 ments and to pi'ovide salaries for the offi- 

 cers and instructors. 



In a paper on ' The Stone Industry in 

 1894,' extracted from the recent report of 

 the Director of the U. S. Geological Survey, 

 Mr. W. C. Day passes in review the indus- 

 tries in granite, marble, slate, sandstone 

 and limestone. An introductory discussion 

 precedes each one, which affords both de- 



