672 
is hereby appropriated out of the general 
revenue of the State; provided that said min- 
eral survey of the State shall be completed 
within two years.”’ 
Section 8 repeals all laws in conflict with the 
Act, and Section 9 declares an emergency. 
It is the intention of the Board of Regents 
to immediately institute the work of the survey, 
which will probably be under the direction of 
Dr. William B. Phillips, who is in charge of 
economic and field geology in the University. 
FREDERIC W. SIMONDS. 
ScHOOL oF GEOLOGY, 
UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS, April 6, 1901. 
PROPOSED SURVEY OF THE ANTIQUITIES 
OF MICHIGAN. 
THE following bill has been introduced in the 
Michigan Legislature, was reported favorably 
by the Committee on State Affairs, and is at 
present referred to the Committee on Ways and 
Means. An amendment limiting the survey to 
two years has been made. 
The people of the State of Michigan enact : 
SECTION 1. That a survey of the antiquities 
of Michigan be, and the same is hereby estab- 
lished. 
SECTION 2. That the survey shall be in charge 
of a commission comprising the Governor of the 
State ex-officio, the President of the University 
of Michigan, the President of the Michigan 
Academy of Sciences, the President of the Pio- 
neer and Historical Society and the President 
of the Detroit Archeological Society ; this com- 
mission to serve without compensation, but to 
be reimbursed for their actual and necessary 
expenses. 
The commission shall have the power to em- 
ploy an archeologist and one or more assistants 
and to make such incidental expenditures as 
the nature of the work may require. The ac- 
counts for salaries and other expenses provided 
herein shall be paid upon the warrant of the 
Auditor-General monthly, upon the approval of 
the Governor. At the end of each fiscal year 
the commission shall cause to be made an annual 
report, the copy for which, as soon as com- 
pleted, shall be forwarded to the clerk of the 
Board of State Auditors for publication by the 
State printer, the expense of such publication to 
SCIENCE. 
[N. S. Vou. XIII. No. 330. 
be paid from the general fund of the State upon 
the allowance of the Board of State Auditors. 
SECTION 38. For the purpose of carrying out 
the provisions of this act, exclusive of the cost 
of publishing the annual reports, there is hereby 
appropriated from the general fund of the State 
for the fiscal year ending June thirty, nineteen 
hundred and two, and each fiscal year there- 
after, the sum of two thousand five hundred 
dollars. 
THE DAVENPORT ACADEMY OF SCIENCE. 
THE annual meeting of the Academy was held 
on January 25th in Davenport, Iowa. The re- 
ports for the year were most encouraging. 
We learn from Mrs. Mary L. D. Putnam, 
President of the Academy, that the Academy 
has purchased the corner property adjoining its 
present building and converted the church into 
a most attractive lecture hall; the high basement 
makes a fine room to relieve the former crowded. 
museum. The two buildings are connected by 
a spacious and well-lighted passageway which 
may also be utilized for museum purposes. 
The scientific library of 10,800 bound volumes 
has been completely catalogued exclusive of a 
large collection of pamphlets. The library has 
been acquired by the exchange of the proceed- 
ings of the Academy with home and foreign 
scientific societies. 
The Academy is one of the oldest of the 
scientific institutions in the West, and on 
December 14, 1900, celebrated the 33d anni- 
versary of its founding by the dedication of 
Science Hall. President MacLean and Profes- 
sor Nutting of the State University of Iowa 
made addresses, and Professor Starr, of the Uni- 
versity of Chicago, gave a lecture ‘ Among 
Mexican Indians.’ 
It is planned to give free scientific lectures 
from time to time in this hall. 
With its large museum, especially rich in 
archeology and enlarged by the recent gift of 
the rare Griswold College Collection, includ- 
ing 2,000 scientific books, and with its valuable 
property, the Academy is on a permanent basis, 
needing only an addition to its general endow- 
ment fund. 
The publication is assured by the Putnam 
Memorial Fund. The income of this fund of 
