July 4, 1902.] 



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it material support. By the time the bill 

 was passed all appointments had been made 

 for the U. S. Survey; nevertheless, as soon 

 as the facts were made known to Dr. Charles 

 D. Walcott, Director of the U. S. Geological 

 Survey, several men were detailed to run 

 control lines in Sarpy, Cass and Otoe 

 counties, with the courteous and encourag- 

 ing proffer of an increased force of topog- 

 raphers for the summer of 1902, so as to 

 expedite the work of making maps to 

 serve as bases for the reports of our own 

 survey. This is cooperation in fact, and 

 it should be stated, furthermore, that we 

 have been favored over many of the older 

 states, on the ground that so young a state 

 can be excused for failing to cooperate with 

 the national survey, better than the older 

 and more resourceful states. Already a 

 line of quadrangles, extending the length 

 of the state, has been surveyed topograph- 

 ically, and that portion of the state west of 

 the 103d meridian has been surveyed, and 

 reported upon by Darton. Besides, cer- 

 tain papers on the water resources of the 

 state have been prepared and published by 

 the national survey. Some of the older 

 states which have shown no spirit of co- 

 operation have received fewer favors. 



Field work was confined to the eastern 

 counties, where there are the greatest num- 

 ber of quarries, clay pits and exposures. 

 Mr. E. C Woodruff spent the early part of 

 the summer, chiefly in Sarpy County, filling 

 in gaps left in the maps made by Fisher 

 and Woodruff the previous summer. Mr. 

 G. B. Condra continued the work of collect- 

 ing Carboniferous fossils, especially the 

 Bryozoa, while the Director of the State 

 Survey made various short collecting trips. 

 All field notes of each worker are put in 

 typewritten form, and are uniformly bound 

 at the end of each season ; likewise all maps 

 and photographs. These mamiscript vol- 

 umes, now numbering twelve books of pho- 

 tographs, seven books of notes, and two 



books of maps, are deposited with the li- 

 brarian for safe keeping until such time 

 as they can be published. 



The annual Morrill Geological Expedi- 

 tion was rendered self-sustaining during 

 the summer of 1901, by the sale of dupli- 

 cate specimens the previous year ; and one 

 extended trip was made to the famous col- 

 lecting grounds of Colorado and Wyoming, 

 and numerous short trips to interesting 

 localities in the state, preliminary to future 

 work. Over thirty thousand specimens 

 have been added to the state collections dur- 

 ing the past three years. 



Specimens, selected from the collections 

 of the Hon. Charles H. Morrill, and from 

 the state geological collection, which are 

 virtually one and the same, are being pho- 

 tographed preparatory to figuring and 

 describing. The material at hand for 

 papers has outrun the publishing fund by 

 several years. However, at the close of 

 the present biennimn, a specific publishing 

 fund will not be asked for, for the coming 

 bienniiun. Hereafter the legislative appro- 

 priation will be devoted to the preparation 

 of reports, which will be submitted to the 

 state printer for publication. Supple- 

 mental to the state funds for geological 

 work is an annual fund from the Univer- 

 sity of Nebraska, varying from $200 to $500 

 a year. 



EbwIn Hinckley Baeboue. 



The University of Nebraska. 



SCIENTIFIC BOOKS. 

 Fact and Fahle in Psychology. By Joseph 



Jastrow. New York, Houghton, Mifflin 



and Co. Pp. xvii-f 375. 



The wild notions that are current about 

 psychic phenomena are for the most part 

 founded on truth. If the air is full of vaga- 

 ries in this field we must in part at least lay 

 the blame on the strangeness and suggestive- 

 ness of the facts themselves. Automatic 

 speech and writing, hypnotism, the strange 

 subsidences and upheavals of rnemory that go 



