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material secured, in the latter part of Sep- 

 tember. 



Mr. M. L. Fuller, in addition to the super- 

 vision of the underground water work of the 

 United States Geological Survey in the east- 

 ern United States, will spend a portion of the 

 field season in an investigation of the under- 

 ground waters of the Cincinnati region and 

 adjacent portions of Ohio and Indiana. Asso- 

 ciated with him will be Mr. F. G. Clapp and 

 S. E. Capps. The work will include studies 

 of the rock, waters and the waters of the drift, 

 and will be both geological and chemical. 



Professor H. E. Gregory, of Yale Univer- 

 sity, will devote a part of the present field 

 season to the completion of an investigation 

 of the underground waters of Connecticut for 

 the United States Geological Survey. The 

 study of the waters of crystalline rocks has 

 already been completed, leaving only the lime- 

 stones and Triassic rocks to be examined. 

 A large number of analyses will be made of 

 typical waters with a view to determining 

 their suitability for public supplies, for use 

 in steam boilers or in industrial processes. 



Mr. Whitman Cross, geologist, of the U. S. 

 Geological Survey, is making areal surveys in 

 the San Juan district, Colorado. He is as- 

 sisted by Messrs. Albert Johannsen and L. H. 



Woolsey. 



An areal survey of the Riddles quadrangle, 

 Oregon, is being made this summer by Mr. 

 J. S. Diller, geologist of the U. S. Geological 

 Survey, assisted by Messrs. G. F. Kay and 

 James Storrs. Preparation for this season's 

 work was made last year in tracing the defi- 

 nite Jurassic rocks from the southwest into 

 the Riddles quadrangle, where they come 

 closer together and apparently render it pos- 

 sible to determine their relations. This 

 quadrangle affords an opportunity to study 

 the whole series of igneous rocks of the Kla- 

 math Mountains, with which the mineral re- 

 sources are most intimately associated. A 

 general examination of the mines in the 

 quadrangle will be made. 



Dr. a. T. Howard, professor of pathology 

 in the Medical School of Western Reserve 



University, will spend next year abroad en- 

 gaged in special investigations. 



Dr. C. Graebe, professor of chemistry at 

 Geneva, has retired with the title of honorary 

 professor. 



A despatch from Christiania, Norway, says 

 that, according to private letters received 

 there from Spitzbergen, Mr. Walter Wellman 

 has abandoned the attempt to reach the North 

 Pole by balloon this year, owing to the late- 

 ness of the season. 



A National Society for the Preservation 

 of the Public Health will be established at a 

 meeting to be held at the Hudson Theater, 

 New York City, on November 15. 



The United States Civil Service Commis- 

 sion announces examinations as follows : On 

 August 29-30, to fill three vacancies in the 

 position of forest assistant in the Philippine 

 Service, at $1,400 per annum, and similar 

 vacancies as they may occur in that service; 

 on September 12, to fill vacancies in the posi- 

 tion of miscellaneous computer at the Naval 

 Observatory; on September 12-14, to fill a 

 vacancy in the position of engineer drafts- 

 man, at $1,600 to $2,000 per annum, in the 

 Reclamation Service, Geological Survey; on 

 September 12-13, to fill vacancies, as they 

 may occur, in the position of aid in the Coast 

 and Geodetic Survey, at $720 per annum 

 each; on September 19, to fill a vacancy in 

 the position of assistant photographer (male), 

 at $480 per annum, in the Geological Survey, 

 and vacancies, as they may occur, in any 

 branch of the service requiring similar quali- 

 fications; on September 19, to fill a vacancy 

 in the position of economic botanist and my- 

 cologist in the Bureau of Science at Manila, 

 P. I., at $1,400 per annum, and vacancies, as 

 they may occur, in the Philippine Service 

 requiring similar qualifications; on Septem- 

 ber 19-20, to fill vacancies in the position of 

 examiner, at $1,800 per annum, and assistant 

 examiner, at salaries ranging from $1,200 to 

 $1,600 per annum, in the Reclamation Service 

 of the Geological Survey, and similar vacan- 

 cies, as they may occur; on October 1, to fill 

 vacancies in the position of constructing en- 



