May 9, 1902.J 



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survey the ground is gone over carefully and 

 the soil is examined to a depth of from three 

 to six feet, samples being obtained by boring 

 with augers. Soil maps will be made which 

 will show the area and location of all the differ- 

 ent important types or classes of soil in the 

 land surveyed. 



The commission authorized by the late New 

 York legislature to report on the establishment 

 of a state electrical laboratory, met at Albany 

 on April 29. 



It has for some time been understood that 

 the Louisiana Purchase Exposition at St. 

 Louis will not be held before 1904, and the 

 executive committee has requested congress 

 to change the time of the exposition from 1903 

 to 1904. 



The nineteenth annual meeting of the 

 American Climatological Association will be 

 held at Los Angeles, Oal., on June 9-11, under 

 the presidency of Dr. Samuel A. Fisk, of Den- 

 ver. 



The Easter vacation party at the Port Erin 

 Biological Station, says Nature, has suffered 

 by the absence abroad of Professor Herdman 

 and Mr. I. C. Thompson, so that it was not 

 possible to arrange any steam dredging ex- 

 peditions. ISTevertheless, much good work 

 has been done on the shore and with the tow- 

 net, and several workers have spent a profit- 

 able vacation at the station. These include 

 Dr. Darbishire, Miss Pratt and Miss Drey 

 from Owens College, Messrs. Pearson and 

 Tattersall from University College, Liverpool, 

 and Mr. Laurie from Oxford. Mr. Cole was 

 to have conducted a vacation class, but was 

 unable to cross owing to a family bereave- 

 ment. The new and greatly improved station 

 is progressing rapidly and will be opened in 

 the summer. 



Much additional material from the A. J. 

 Stone Expedition to Alaska has been received 

 recently by the American Museum of Natural 

 History among which there are specimens of 

 what proves to be a fine new species of caribou 

 and a new species or subspecies of mountain 

 sheep. This expedition is the first of a series 

 made possible through the efforts of Madison 

 Grant, Esq., and supported by him and other 



friends of the Museum, for the purpose of 

 securing an adequate representation of the 

 game mammals of the continent. The past 

 season's work has been especially important 

 because it has provided material from Alaska, 

 a portion of America heretofore practically 

 unrepresented in the collections. 



News has been received to the effect that 

 the expedition headed by Mr. W. F. White- 

 house of Newport, R. I., who is accompanied 

 by Lord Hindlip, reached Gildessa on the 

 Abyssinian frontier, on March 23, with the 

 members in good health, and proceeded to 

 Adis Abeba, capital of Abyssinia. 



Plans for the auxiliary Baldwin-Zeigler 

 expedition to northern polar regions have 

 been completed and the men who have been 

 intrusted with its direction will shortly leave 

 for Europe. The steamer Frithjof, which 

 with the America conveyed the Baldwin party 

 to Franz Josef land, will depart from Tromsoe 

 on July 1. The auxiliary expedition will be 

 in charge of Mr. W. S. Champ, secretary to 

 Mr. William Zeigler, who will sail for Europe 

 on the steamship Cymric on May 23, and the 

 remainder of the party will leave on the steam- 

 ship Pretoria on June 1. 



The Horticultural Society of New Tork 

 will hold its third annual meeting at the New 

 York Botanical Garden on May 14. Mem- 

 bers and their friends leaving Grand Central 

 station by the 1 :35 p.m. train for Bronx Park, 

 will be met at the station by Mr. James Wood, 

 president of the Society, and escorted to the 

 conservatories. Those leaving Grand Central 

 Station by the 2:35 p.m. train will be met by 

 Dr. D. T. MacDougal, first assistant. New 

 York Botanical Garden, and escorted to the 

 conservatories. Leaving the conservatories at 

 3:35 the party will walk through the grounds 

 to the museum building; the formal meeting 

 will commence in the lecture hall of the mu- 

 seum building at 4:15 o'clock and will be fol- 

 lowed by an exhibition by Dr. N. L. Britton, 

 of lantern slides illustrating 'Features of the 

 New Zealand Flora,' contributed to the Garden 

 by Mr. L. Cockayne. The Council of the So- 

 ciety will meet in the administration office, 

 museum building, at 3:15 o'clock. The mu- 



