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College of Engineering, died on June 28, at 

 the age of forty-four years. 



Mrs. Elizabeth Cabot Cary Agassiz died 

 on June 27 as the result of paralytic stroke. 

 Mrs. Agassiz was born in Boston in 1832 and 

 in 1850 married Louis Agassiz, with whose 

 work she was intimately associated, and whose 

 life she wrote. Mrs. Agassiz was president 

 of EadclifEe College until 1902. 



M. U. Le Verrier, professor of metallurgy 

 at the Paris Conservatory of Arts and Trades, 

 has died at the age of fifty-nine years. He 

 was the son of the eminent astronomer. 



Civil service examinations will he held as 

 follows: On July 17, for the position of aid 

 in arboriculture, at salaries ranging from $600 

 to $1,000 in the Bureau of Plant Industry; 

 assistant in grain standardization in the same 

 bureau at salaries ranging from $1,000 to 

 $1,200; as aid in the Coast and Geodetic Sur- 

 vey at a salary of $730 ; on July 24, for veter- 

 inary inspector in the Bureau of Animal In- 

 dustry at a salary of $1,400, increasing to 

 $1,800; for the position chemist aid in the 

 Bureau of Chemistry, Department of Agri- 

 culture at a salary of $1,000, applications for 

 which may be filed at any time. The length 

 of time any chemist aid may serve in this 

 capacity in the department is limited to two 

 years. It is expected that within that time 

 aids will qualify for other positions in chem- 

 istry through appropriate examinations. 



The first party to take the field in con- 

 nection with the cooperative investigation of 

 the Atlantic Coastal Plain by the United 

 States and the local geological surveys, under 

 the direction of Mr. M. L. Fuller, of the 

 United'.States' Survey, is that of Mr. E. W. 

 Berry, who has made a beginning on a de- 

 tailed study of the Cretaceous flora in North 

 Carolina. The work will include both an in- 

 vestigation of the river sections throughout 

 the state by means of canoe and a thorough 

 examination by wagon of the inter-stream 

 areas. The expense is borne jointly by the 

 North Carolina, and national surveys. Much 

 detailed information in regard to the lower 

 Cretaceous floras of the state has already 



been obtained, and the results promise to 

 throw considerable additional light on the 

 Cretaceous geology of the region. 



During the past winter, Mr. Eobert T. Hill 

 has completed his monograph of the geology 

 of the Windward Islands for publication in 

 the Proceedings of the Museum of Compara- 

 tive Zoology at Harvard University. This 

 work completes Mr. Hill's series of studies on 

 the islands of the American Mediterranean. 

 Mr. Hill has also completed the geological 

 map of Trans-pecos, Texas and eastern New 

 Mexico, which finishes the work upon which 

 he has been so long engaged in the Texas 

 region. He has also made for the first time 

 preliminary reconnaissance geological maps 

 of the Mexican states of Chihuahua, Sonora, 

 Coahuila and Nuevoleon, and western New 

 Mexico, Arizona and southern California. 

 This series of reconnaisance maps, based upon 

 Mr. Hill's long residence and study of the 

 southwestern region, constitutes a map com- 

 pletely crossing the continent along the 

 Mexican border region, and places on record 

 the relations of the following geographic and 

 geologic features of our country : the southern 

 termination of the Pocky Mountain proper in 

 New Mexico; the numerous individual moun- 

 tains extending south therefrom, collectively 

 constituting the Sierra Madre of New Mexico, 

 Texas and northern Mexico; the outlines, 

 boundaries and individual mountain ranges of 

 the great Chihuahuan Desert; the southern 

 edge of the Colorado Plateau, the area and 

 boundaries of the great western Sierra Madre 

 of Mexico, and the boundaries, mountain 

 ranges and geology of the great Sonoran 

 Desert also of Colorado, Arizona and Sonora. 

 The geological map of Chihuahua will be pub- 

 lished at an early date by the American 

 Museum of Natural History in connection 

 with a paper which Dr. E. 0. Hovey has 

 in press. The map as a whole, or parts 

 thereof, are at the disposition of any research 

 worker of the natural phenomenon who may 

 wish to use the same. 



The Jownal of the American Medical As- 

 sociation says : " Last March many prominent 

 physicians in America received notices to the 



