OCTOBEB 25, 1907] 



SCIENCE 



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7,200 square miles, has just been issued in a 

 volume of some 700 pages. 



The survey of the lead and zinc region of 

 Southwestern Wisconsin, which is under the 

 direction of Mr. Hotehkiss, has been extended 

 by the work of a party of geologists and topog- 

 raphers, under the immediate charge of Mr. 

 Edward Steidtmann. Nearly 100 square 

 miles have been surveyed and maps are being 

 prepared on the scale of four inches to the 

 mile, with ten-foot contours. Much detailed 

 information has been secured from drill holes, 

 regarding the contours of the surface of the 

 base of the Galena limestone, which forms 

 the bottom of the zinc-bearing horizons. 



The survey has continued its work on lakes 

 on a more extensive scale through cooperative 

 aid furnished by the U. S. Bureau of Fisheries 

 and the Wisconsin Commissioners of Fish- 

 eries. The season was spent in the study of 

 the lake region of Northeastern Wisconsin. 

 Messrs. George Wagner and C. T. Vorhies 

 were engaged throughout the summer in col- 

 lecting fish from these lakes, especially white- 

 fish and lake trout. During August Mr. 

 Chancey Juday, biologist, with Messrs. E. D. 

 Hall and George Kemmerer, as chemist, and 

 Mr. E. V. Hills, as assistant, investigated the 

 lakes as to temperature, oxygen, carbon di- 

 oxide, plankton, etc. Materials for study were 

 obtained from nearly 70 lakes. This work 

 was under the immediate charge of the direc- 

 tor, Mr. E. A. Birge. 



In addition to Dr. Weidman's report, the 

 survey has just issued a bulletin by Dr. J. W. 

 Goldthwait, on the abandoned beaches of Lake 

 Michigan. Reports on the water powers of 

 the state, by L. S. Smith, and on underground 

 waters, by A. E. Schultz, are now in press. 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 

 Dr. Keysselitz and Dr. Martin Meyer, 

 members of the Institute for Ship and 

 Tropical Diseases at Hamburg, have been sent 

 to the Agricultural and Biological Station at 

 Amani in German East Africa to study the 

 disease-causing protozoa. 



During the past summer, Professor J. W. 

 Tourney, of the Tale Forest School, made an 

 extensive tour of inspection for the United 



States Forest Service through many of the 

 national forests, investigating the condition of 

 the forest tree plantations and nurseries which 

 the national government is maintaining. 



Dr. Heinrich Eubens, professor of physics 

 at Berlin, has been elected a member of the 

 Berlin Academy of Sciences. 



Dr. Franz Richarz, professor of physics at 

 Marburg, has been elected to membership in 

 the Academy of Sciences at Halle. 



Professor Batz, of Stuttgart and formerly 

 of Tokyo, has been elected president of the 

 German Society of Tropical Medicine, re- 

 cently founded in Berlin. 



Me. E. I. Smith, formerly state entomolo- 

 gist of Georgia, has accepted the position of 

 entomologist to the North Carolina College of 

 Agriculture and Mechanic Arts and the Agri- 

 cultural Experiment Station at West Rayleigh. 



Of the Western Eeserve medical staff. Dr. 

 William T. Howard has returned from one 

 year's leave of absence, during which time he 

 has done research work at the University of 

 Munich. Dr. Howard D. Haskins, absent 

 upon leave, has returned from research work 

 at the University of Strassburg. Dr. Norman 

 W. Ingalls, absent upon leave, returns after a 

 year's research work at Freiburg and Leipzig. 



Mr. W. L. Abbott, chief engineer for the 

 Chicago Edison Company, has been elected 

 president of the board of trustees of the Uni- 

 versity of Illinois. 



Mr. E. S. Goodrich, M.A., F.E.S., has been 

 elected to an official Fellowship at Merton 

 College, Oxford, on condition of his carrying 

 on scientific researches in zoology and con- 

 tinuing educational work in the university. 



Dr. Hugo Hertzer, professor of graphics, in 

 the technical high school at Berlin, has re- 

 tired from active service. 



The first lecture in the present year's 

 Harvey Society course will be delivered by 

 Professor E. O. Jordan, University of 

 Chicago, at the New York Academy of Medi- 

 cine on Saturday evening, October 26, at 8:30 

 P.M. Subject : " The Problems" of Sanitation." 

 All interested are invited to be present. 



Professor Josiah Eoyoe is this year giving 

 courses on ethics and metaphysics at Yale 



