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worthless lands m the east? The answer 

 lies largely in the fact that no other part of 

 the country than the arid west has such 

 wonderful opportunities for crop produc- 

 tion, as it does not have the continuous 

 daily sunshine upon which plant life de- 

 pends. The advantages of the develop- 

 ment in the arid region also are greater 

 from the political standpoint, as popula- 

 tion is better distributed and is brought 

 nearer to important sources of mineral 

 wealth, enabling development of indus- 

 tries in otherwise remote and inaccessible 

 localities. 



All of these results are successful in pro- 

 portion as they have been brought about 

 by scientific methods, and by following the 

 principles inculcated at the schools of 

 which the Institute of Technology is chief. 



F. H. Newell 

 tJ. S. Reclamation Service, 

 Washington, D. C. 



THE ST. LOUIS UNIVEBSITY EXPEDITION 

 TO COLORADO 

 In a recent number of the Fleur-de Lis, 

 one of the publications of the St. Louis Uni- 

 versity, there appears an article on a geolog- 

 ical expedition to Colorado, organized last 

 summer by that university. Its purpose was 

 to afford an opportunity of geologic field-work 

 to those teachers who were called upon to 

 teach geology as an accessory subject, in addi- 

 tion to other regular work. Accordingly, 

 those who availed themselves of the oppor- 

 tunity were chiefly professors of physics and 

 chemistry. They were : Professor John P. 

 Coony, head of the department of chemistry, 

 St. Louis University Medical School; James 

 I. Shannon and Charles Cloud, professor and 

 associate professor, respectively, of physics, 

 and Theodore Schulte, professor of chemistry, 

 St. Louis University; Joseph Wilczewski and 

 William Agnew, of the department of physics, 

 St. Ignatius College, Chicago; A. M. Schwi- 

 talla, professor of chemistry, St. Xavier Col- 

 lege, Cincinnati; Vincent Jenneman, pro- 



fessor of physics. Sacred Heart College, 

 Prairie du Chien, Wis.; Hugo Sloctemeyer, 

 curator of the Mineralogical Museum, St. 

 John's University, Toledo, O. 



Colorado, and especially the foot-hiU region, 

 was chosen for its variety of geological forma- 

 tions within a comparatively small area. Ten 

 days were spent near Canon City chiefly to 

 study the occurrence and formation of igneous 

 and metamorphic rock in the Royal Gorge of 

 the Arkansas Eiver. Camp was then moved 

 to Garden Park, ten miles north, where during 

 four days attention was principally directed 

 to the foot-hiU topography and the strata pro- 

 files in Oil Creek Canon. The famous dino- 

 saur beds of the region were also examined 

 as carefully as was possible under the circum- 

 stances. Finally, more than two weeks were 

 spent in the Ute Pass near Manitou, where, 

 besides special problems investigated by the 

 individual members of the party, some coordi- 

 nated work was done on the formations of the 

 Manitou embayment, and the Archaean-Cam- 

 brian contact in this region. The pedagogical 

 character of the work was continually kept in 

 mind, and the results were such as to warrant 

 a repetition of the experiment. 



A. M. SCHWITALLA 



BESOLUTIONS ON THE DEATH OF PRO- 

 FESSOR CHARLES OTIS WHITMAN 



At the Ithaca meeting of the Eastern 

 Branch of the American Society of Zoologists 

 in December, 1910, it was voted that " the 

 president appoint a committee to prepare a 

 resolution on the death of Professor Whit- 

 man, the resolution to be published in the 

 minutes of the society, and transmitted to the 

 family of Professor Whitman." In accord- 

 ance with this vote Professor S. F. Clarke and 

 Professor F. R. Lillie were appointed on this 

 committee. They have prepared the following 

 resolutions which have been incorporated in 

 the permanent records of the society: 



The Eastern Branch of the American Society 

 of Zoologists records with profound regret the 

 death of Professor Charles Otis Whitman on 

 Deeember 6, 1910. Professor Whitman was one 

 of the founders of this society; he was chairman 



