Mat 8, 1908] 



SCIENCE 



733 



The Saguenay Fjord, sixty miles long, 

 river-like in its nearly uniform width and 

 its somewhat winding course, with a depth 

 from nearly 500 to 900 feet beneath the 

 sea level, continuously enclosed on each side 

 by steep or precipitous bluffs and cliffs 

 500 to 1,500 feet high, is regarded as a very 

 typical fjord of the Norwegian type. 



Both the fjords of Puget Sound and of 

 the SagTienay have been eroded alike by 

 river channeling before the Ice Age, show- 

 ing, with the other fjords farther north, 

 that this continent was greatly uplifted 

 during a considerable time preceding the 

 continental glaciation. Such high land 

 elevation the author believes to have caused 

 the cold climate and the accumulation of 

 snow and ice which characterized the 

 Glacial Period. ^_ §_ batley. 



Secretary pro tern. 



THE HANOVEE MEETING 



Section B, Geology and Geography, pro- 

 poses to give a series of excursions to vari- 

 ous points in Vermont and New Hampshire 

 in connection with the meeting of the 

 American Association for the Advancement 

 of Science at Hanover this summer. 



A tentative plan is the following: 



1. The first excursion to be under Dr. 

 "Wolff, of Harvard University, starting 

 from Bellows Falls, Vt., Friday, June 26. 

 This will be a trip across the Green Moun- 

 tains, arriving at Rutland, Vt., some time 

 on Saturday. 



2. An excursion with Professor G. H. 

 Perkins, state geologist of Vermont, to 

 some of the marble quarries. 



3. An excursion to Ascutney Mountain, 

 Vermont, under Dr. R. A. Daly. 



4. A trip to the Quechee River local gla- 

 cier under Professor Hitchcock, of Dart- 

 mouth. 



5. A study of the terraces of the Con- 

 necticut River. 



6. A day in the Corbin Park to see the 

 buffaloes, etc. 



7. A trip of one to three days around 

 Littleton, N. H. 



8. A trip to Mt. Monadnock, if enough 

 care to go. 



9. A trip to one of the points of interest 

 for economic geology. 



10. The final excursion will be made to 

 the Summit House on Mt. Washington, 

 where greatly reduced rates have been se- 

 cured for a stay of from a day to a week. 



It will greatly assist in making arrange- 

 ments for the meeting if all those who have 

 any thought of taking part in these excur- 

 sions will send word as soon as possible to 

 F. P. Gulliver, 

 Secretary Section E 

 30 Huntington Lane, 

 NoEwicH, Conn. 



A PLAN FOB AN EXCHANQE OF TEACHERS 



BETWEEN PRUSSIA AND THE 



UNITED STATES^ 



On behalf of the Department of Ecclesi- 

 astical Affairs, Instruction and Medical 

 Affairs of Prussia, Geheimer Ober-Regier- 

 ungsrat. Dr. Karl Reinhardt, addressed the 

 Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement 

 of Teaching in the summer of 1907 and 

 laid before it a plan for an exchange of 

 teachers between Prussia and the United 

 States. An exchange similar to the one 

 proposed is now in effect between Prussia 

 on the one side, and France and England 

 on the other ; and in view of the usefulness 

 of this work, not only in the school systems 

 of the respective countries, but also in the 

 better feeling and understanding of the 

 countries. Dr. Reinhardt urged the exten- 



• Bulletin issued by the Carnegie Foundation 

 for the Advancement of Teaching. The committee 

 of arrangements consists of Dr. Henry S. Prit- 

 chett, president of the foundation, Professors 

 Julius Sachs and Calvin Thomas, Columbia Uni- 

 versity, and Headmaster James G. Croswell, 

 Brearley School, New York. 



