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ing grounds of fish, and Professor T. L. Hank- 

 inson, of the Eastern Illinois Normal School, 

 Charleston, 111., will with Dr. Charles C. 

 Adams, of the College of Forestry, investigate 

 the ecology of the fish. 



A COOPERATIVE plan for the study of the 

 underground waters in the southeastern cor- 

 ner of Montana under an area of about ten 

 thousand square miles has been arranged by 

 0. E. Meizner representing the U. S. Geolog- 

 ical Survey, with the chemical department of 

 the Montana State College and the chemical 

 laboratory at the college which does the work 

 for the Montana board of health. Under the 

 arrangement the field work will be done by the 

 geological survey and the analyses amounting 

 to about two hundred will be done by the State 

 College and the board of health under the di- 

 rection of Professor W. M. Cobleigh. The 

 work is to be completed by July 1, 1916. The 

 study deals with the mineral content of the 

 waters only and is of importance both to the 

 agricultural interests of the state and to the 

 public health as affecting the matter of do- 

 mestic water supply. 



Dr. Lucy L. W. Wilson, head of the depart- 

 ment of nature study and geography of the 

 Philadelphia Normal School, excavated this 

 summer at the prehistoric site called Otowi, 

 New Mexico, for the Philadelphia Commercial 

 Museums, of which her husband. Dr. W. P. 

 Wilson, is the director. She has returned 

 with a fine collection of prehistoric pottery in- 

 cluding a dozen unbroken bowls, about thirty 

 bowls of which all of the pieces have been se- 

 cured, and forty pieces of pottery of which at 

 least half is intact. Every type of pottery is 

 represented, including even a small piece of 

 very ancient basket ware, a whole bowl of in- 

 cised ware, some coiled ware, plenty of the bis- 

 cuit, the hard " black and white," and the 

 glazed patterns. Many clay food bowls, oUas, 

 tinajes, ceremonial bowls and ceremonial pipes 

 were found. A potter's outfit was dug out, 

 consisting of balls of red and white clay, mica 

 clay (for cooking pots), smoothing stones, 

 shaping stones and paint pots. A great quan- 

 tity of stone ware was excavated, much of 

 which has been left in situ, although a good 



collection of domestic and hunting utensils 

 and implements has been shipped to the mu- 

 seum. Over fifty skeletons were disinterred, 

 but all except fifteen were reburied, chiefly be- 

 cause they were not in good condition. The 

 most important find was a " basket-burial " in 

 a room underneath the floor. On the body were 

 many ceremonial objects — two rain sticks and 

 about a dozen prayer sticks. The feet were in 

 a glazed bowl. The mouth was full of corn 

 and cobs of corn were on the face, the neck, 

 the chest. A dozen ceremonial pipes and a 

 small copper pendant were found in the same 

 room. Another unusual burial was that of a 

 child in a bowl with a couple of clay play- 

 things near by. Most of the adults were buried 

 in the usual reflexed position with the face 

 toward the west. Two skeletons, however, were 

 found face down. One of these had a long 

 ceremonial pipe of serpentine in his mouth. 



We learn from Nature that the Eoyal So- 

 ciety is compiling a register of scientific and 

 technical men in Great Britain and Ireland, 

 who are willing to give their services in con- 

 nection with the war. The register will be 

 classified into subjects, and will ultimately 

 constitute a large panel of men of standing, 

 whose services will be available whenever any 

 government department or similar authority 

 requires specialist assistance. The register is 

 being coordinated with those independently 

 compiled by other societies and institutions, 

 but the Eoyal Society would be glad to have 

 applications for forms from such members of 

 the staffs of colleges and technical institutions 

 as have not yet been registered by any society. 

 The Eoyal Society is also drawing up, with 

 the cooperation of the principal societies and 

 institutions, a list of scientific and technical 

 men actually on active service in the army 

 and navy. 



The medical secretary of the British Med- 

 ical Association has made a report on the 

 medical war register and the work hitherto 

 done by the committee, according to which the 

 physicians in England, Wales and Ireland are 

 distributed as follows: 



1. The number of men already on whole-time 

 war service (total, 5,265). 



