NOVEMBEB 29, 1895.] 



SCIENCE. 



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Prof. E. C. Sanford, Clark University. Pro- 

 grams of the meetings and other informa- 

 tion can be obtained from the Secretaries. 



FIELD WORK IN GEOLOGY AT THE UNIVERSITY 

 OF KANSAS. 



In the spring of 1895 the Board of Re- 

 gents of the University of Kansas formally 

 opened tlie University G-eological Survey of 

 Kansas, a bureau which they were author- 

 ized to establish at their discretion, by the 

 law making appropriation for the Univer- 

 sity in 1889, and repeated in every appro- 

 priation bill passed by the Kansas Legisla- 

 ture since that time. Active field work 

 was begun in the summer of 1893 and has 

 been prosecuted with increasing vigor each 

 succeeding summer. In 1893 Prof. Ha- 

 worth, of the department of physical geol- 

 ogj^ and mineralogj' in the University, had 

 three men in the field. They succeeded in 

 running geologic sections in various places 

 in the southeastern part of the State, and 

 published a brief account of the results in 

 the Kansas University Quarterlj', January , 

 1894. During the summer of 1894 he had 

 five men in the field who continued investi- 

 gations in stratigraphy in eastern Kansas. 

 Some of the results of this season's work 

 were given in the Univei'sity Quartei-ly of 

 April, 189-5. During the summer of 1895 

 the work was greatlj^ extended. The Legis- 

 lature passed a bill creating a State Board 

 of Irrigation, of which, it is provided, ' the 

 professor of geology in the University ' 

 should be a member. This added greatly 

 to the opportunities of the University, as 

 additional funds were available for expenses. 

 A total of twelve men, besides Prof. Ha- 

 worth, were engaged for longer or shorter 

 periods during the summer, five of whom 

 were working witli special reference to the 

 water problems in the western part of the 

 State, two others in the Cretaceous doing 

 stratigraphic and areal work, one devoting 

 his time exclusively to the salt deposits of 



tlie State, one to a detailed study of the 

 coal mines and mining, one to a study of 

 glacial phenomena in northeastern Kansas, 

 and others to general stratigraphic work in 

 the Carboniferous. 



As a result of these various opei-ations a 

 volume on the stratigraphy of the Carbon- 

 iferous is now ready for publication. A 

 preliminary report on the water supply of 

 the western part of the State will be com- 

 pleted by the last of December, and large 

 quantities of material have been gathered 

 for succeeding volumes on the sti-atigraphy 

 of the Cretaceous and Tertiai-y of the State, 

 on the economic geology of the State, etc. 

 The question of publication is not yet defi- 

 nitely settled, as the Legislative enactment 

 made no special provision for it ; but it is 

 hoped that in one way or another the work 

 of the organized survey will not be sei'iously 

 hindered by a lack of means for publication. 



THE BIOLOGICAL EXPERIMENT STATION OF 

 THE UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS. 



Though established with the primary aim 

 of affording opportunity for research for its 

 own staff, the Station will in future be open 

 during the months of June, July and Au- 

 gust to biological investigators and to stu- 

 dents of some experience in zoological or 

 botanical work. 



The Station is established on the Illinois 

 Elver, with principal headquarters at the 

 county town of Havana, forty miles below 

 Peoria and a hundred miles west of the 

 University of Illinois. It has for its field 

 of operations the banks and waters of the 

 Illinois River itself and a selected series of 

 lakes, streams and bayous of the vicinity, 

 presenting an extraordinary variety of situ- 

 ations, rich beyond anj' ordinary experience 

 in number and variety of plant and animal 

 forms. The collecting stations are all with- 

 in convenient access from the town, at out- 

 side distances of a mile to the south and 

 three miles to the north. 



