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Industry, was improperly interested in the 

 firm of George E. Howard and the Howard 

 Label Company. Secretary Wilson's indorse- 

 ment on the report is as follows : " Inquiry 

 discloses the fact that Dr. Salmon had an 

 unfortunate connection with the firm of 

 George E. Howard & Co. While this connec- 

 tion was not an ideal relation for a govern- 

 ment ofiicer to have with a firm doing business 

 with the departm.ent, I am convinced that Dr. 

 Salmon never intended to profit by work done 

 by Mr. Howard for the Department of Agri- 

 culture, and that he has never been connected 

 with the Howard Label Company or received 

 any benefit from the contract of that company 

 with the department. The action of the de- 

 partment regarding the meat inspection serv- 

 ice was as fair, considerate and comprehen- 

 sive as the appropriations would warrant. 

 The case does not seem to call for further 

 disciplinary action." 



The statement which we quoted from the 

 American Geologist in regard to the change 

 in the directorship of the Geological Survey 

 of Michigan was incorrect. In regard to the 

 survey, we are informed that the director, 

 Professor A. C. Lane, is engaged in detailed 

 studies in the copper region. Professor I. C. 

 Russell is making an examination of the sur- 

 face geology in the Upper Peninsula, and Mr. 

 Frank Leverett, of the United States survey, 

 is studying the same problem. They are work- 

 ing in cooperation. Professor C. A. Davis is 

 studying the development and ecology of the 

 peat bog flora. Mr. W. C. Gordon is com- 

 pleting a cross section of the copper-bearing 

 formation to determine the different horizons 

 near the Wisconsin line. Professor W. M. 

 Gregory is finishing his report on Arenac 

 County. Mr. W. F. Cooper is working on the 

 Wayne County report and watching the shaft 

 going down to rock salt, near Detroit. 



Plans for the cooperative investigation of 

 the artesian waters in the vicinity of Wilming- 

 ton, North Carolina, have been arranged by 

 the United States Geological Survey and the 

 State Geological Survey of North Carolina. 

 It is expected that the work will be in charge 

 of Mr. M. L. Fuller, who will be assisted by 



Mr. L. W. Stephenson, of Johns Hopkins Uni- 

 versity, and Mr. B. L. Johnson, recently of 

 the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. 



Charles E. Brown, curator of the Wiscon- 

 sin Archeological Society, has returned from a 

 week in the field plotting mounds and collect- 

 ing archeological data in the vicinity of 

 Beaver Dam and Fox Lakes in the western 

 part of Dodge County, Wisconsin, and is now 

 preparing the society's exhibit of archeology 

 for the state fair. 



On August 9 the London County Council 

 erected a tablet on the house in which Edward 

 Jenner, the discoverer of vaccination, lived 

 during 1803. 



It is proposed to erect a memorial to the 

 late Professor Emerich Meissl in the agricul- 

 tural experiment station at Vienna, with 

 which he was connected for more than twenty 

 years. 



Professor Ellis A. Apgar, for twenty years 

 state superintendent of public instruction in 

 New Jersey and a writer on botany, died at 

 East Orange, N. J., on August 28. 



Dr. Robert Billwiller, director of the 

 Swiss Meteorological Bureau, died in Zurich 

 on August 14, at the age of fifty-six years. 



It appears from cable despatches to the 

 daily papers that the weather was very favor- 

 able for observations and photographs of the 

 total solar eclipse on August 30 for the large 

 number of parties of different nationalities 

 that went to Spain, Algeria, Tunis and Egypt. 

 The weather was unfavorable on the Island of 

 Majorca. In this country the partial eclipse 

 was obscured by clouds. 



Reuter's Agency telegraphs that members 

 of the British Association arrived at Durban 

 on August 22. They proceeded to Pieter- 

 maritzburg on August 24, where they were 

 welcomed by the governor of Natal. A num- 

 ber of excursions were made on the twenty- 

 fifth, and the members left for Colenso on the 

 twenty-sixth. 



The seventy-seventh meeting of German 

 Men of Science and Physicians was held in 

 Meran last week under the presidency of Dr. 

 Franz von Winckel, professor of gynecology 



