Januakt 22, 1904.] 



SCIENCE. 



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the left. The results are given in the fol- 

 lowing table. 



FiEST Day. 



Scaur. Flood Plain. 



Kight. Left. 



222 245 



55 187 



73 350 



96 271 



90 442 



73 303 



21 518 



34 273 



41 287 



76 236 



50 280 



31 100 



53 466 



95 168 



653 357 4,126 



In all 5,136 



Total both banks 10,272 



Total scaur 1,010 



Per cent, of scaur 10 



Per cent, of scaur on right ... 64 



Second Day. 



Scaur. Flood Plain. 

 Eight. Left. 



66 295 



56 300 



130 273 



120 153 



173 225 



195 1,160 



39 144 



30 350 



60 245 



16 341 



178 256 



47 196 



37 100 



200 343 



48 260 



100 1,218 



27 78 



30 30 



17 259 



180 



978 591 6,406 



Total 7,975 



Total both banks 15,950 



Total scaur 1,569 



Per cent, of scaur 10 



Per cent, of scaur on right . . 62 



Mr. Bowman's pacing gave practically the 

 same results. 



As my pace is 2.75 feet, we walked the iirst 

 day 2.6 miles and the second 4.1, and found 

 each time that along one tenth of its course 

 the Eouge is widening its valley, while two 

 thirds of this work is being done on the right 

 bank. This called Mr. Bowman's attention 



at once and he will prosecute further studies 

 on this and other streams. Of course, the 

 interest here is in a possible criterion for 

 detecting deflection of rivers by the efEect 

 of the earth's rotation. The distance is short, 

 yet the results are singTilarly uniform, as ap- 

 pears from the following analysis in detail. 

 Grouping the scaurs by successive amounts 

 of about 500 paces, we have : 



Percentage 



Total Scaur. Right. Left. on Right. 



536 318 218 59 



474 335 139 71 



545 349 196 64 



518 224 294 43 



506 405 101 80 



2,579 



1,631 



64 



Eivers ought to show the efEect of the 

 earth's rotation and no criterion could be 

 simpler in theory or application than this. 

 As the Eouge flows fairly to the east prevalent 

 westerly winds urge the river neither to right 

 nor left. Mark S. W. Jefferson. 



Michigan State Normal College, 

 December 7, 1903. 



SHORTER ARTICLES. 



WONDER horses AND MBNDELISM. 



Dr. Castle's reference to the Oregon Won- 

 der horse in Science for December 11 reminds 

 me that in the autumn of 1899 I corresponded 

 with Mr. James K. Eutherford, of Wadding- 

 ton, N. Y., who then owned a horse called 

 Linus II. Mr. Eutherford sent a photograph 

 of the horse, taken in 1898. The photograph 

 shows a Morgan horse probably about five 

 years old with a double mane which trails on 

 the ground on either side for a distance of two 

 feet. The tail trails on the ground for a dis- 

 tance of about six to eight feet. Correspond- 

 ence with Mr. Eutherford yielded the follow- 

 ing additional statements: Linus II. is the 

 son of Linus I., which had a mane that was 

 single, but at fourteen years old eighteen feet 

 long, while the tail was twenty-one feet long. 

 " The mother also had a remarkable growth of 

 hair." The paternal grandmother was known 

 as the ' Oregon Beauty ' and was noted for the 

 mass and length of her hair. My correspond- 

 ence with the owner of Linus I. led to few 

 additional facts. He stated that the long 



