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in 1910, previously chief of the technological 

 branch of the U. S. Geological Survey, pro- 

 fessor of geology in the University of North 

 Carolina and state geologist of North Caro- 

 lina, died from tuberculosis in Denver, Colo- 

 rado, on July 13, in his fifty-sixth year. 



Dr. Francis Delafield, the distinguished 

 New York physician and pathologist, professor 

 emeritus of pathology and the practise of medi- 

 cine in the College of Physicians and Sur- 

 geons, Columbia University, died on July 18, 

 at the age of seventy-four years. 



Dr. Egbert Mackay Dawbarn, professor of 

 surgery at the Fordham University Medical 

 School, senior surgeon of the New York Hos- 

 pital, died on July 17, in his sixty-sixth year. 



Chief Engineer John J. Bissett, United 

 States navy, retired, died at Bridgeport, Conn., 

 on July 20, aged seventy-nine years. 



Mr. Egbert Heath Lock, known for his 

 work in genetics, formerly curator at the Uni- 

 versity of Cambridge and assistant director of 

 the Botanic Gardens of Peradeniya in Ceylon, 

 has died at the age of thirty-six years. 



Mr. C. E. p. Spagnoletti, the British elec- 

 trical engineer, died on June 28, at the age of 

 eighty-three years. 



Prgfessor Hugo Luthje, director of the 

 medical clinic at the University of Kiel, has 

 died at the age of forty-five years. 



Professor Fritz MiJHLBEEG, the Swiss geol- 

 ogist and paleontologist, has died in Aarau. 



Dr. Max Eappart, assistant in chemistry 

 under Professor Fischer in the University of 

 Berlin, has been killed in the war. 



With the issue of the Athenceum for July 

 3 is published the first instalment of a subject 

 index to periodicals, undertaken at the request 

 of a committee appointed for the purpose by 

 the Library Association. The progress of sci- 

 ence and technology in 1915, with special ref- 

 erence to the war, is the first subject to be in- 

 dexed. 



For the survey of the animal and bird life 

 of the Yosemite National Park, being carried 

 on this summer by the California Museum of 

 Vertebrate Zoology, a gift of $1,145 has been 



made to the University of California by Miss 

 Annie M. Alexander, of Oakland, Senator 

 Joseph D. Phelan, of San Francisco, Mr. G. 

 M. Marston and Mr. Stephen T. Mather, as- 

 sistant secretary of the interior. 



The United States Geological Survey has 

 issued a guidebook describing the overland 

 route from Missouri Eiver to the Pacific coast. 

 It is Secretary Lane's desire that the trans- 

 continental journey, by whatever route, shall 

 afford the traveler an intimate acquaintance 

 with the country through which he passes, and 

 this volume, therefore, is the first of four 

 which will appear in rapid succession. The 

 next to come, that covering the Northern Pa- 

 cific route, so closely identified with the Lewis 

 and Clark expedition of 1803-06, will be pub- 

 lished in a few days; and those describing the 

 Santa Fe route and the Shasta and Coast 

 route will follow soon. The route is followed 

 from station to station, and the country along 

 the way described and explained from many 

 points of view — ^human history, geologic his- 

 tory, agricultural and mining values. The 

 guide books are full of items of general inter- 

 est that will answer such questions as the aver- 

 age intelligent traveler is continually asking. 

 In a broad way the story of the west is a unit, 

 and the aim of this description of the western 

 United States is to meet the needs of the 

 American citizen who desires to understand 

 what he sees. In the preparation of the book 

 on the Overland Route (Bulletin 612) much 

 information already in the possession of the 

 Geological Survey has been utilized, but to 

 supplement this material three geologists last 

 year made a field examination of the entire 

 route, while special topographic surveys for 

 the accompanying maps were made by survey 

 engineers. The route is covered by a series of 

 29 complete and accurate maps, which are so 

 arranged that the reader can unfold them one 

 by one and keep each map in view while he is 

 reading the text relating to the portion of the 

 route it represents. The book is also freely il- 

 lustrated with half-tone plates of some of the 

 most striking views and objects to be seen on 

 the journey and with pictures of prehistoric 

 animals that inhabited the west in ages past, 



