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cestral to that which subsequently found its 

 way into Europe, Africa had a very distinc- 

 tive ungulate fauna of its own. H. F. O. 



RESEARCH FUNDS OF THE SCIENTIFIC 

 ALLIANCE OF NEW YORK. 



The council of the Scientific Alliance of 

 New York holds two funds, the income from 

 which is used for the aid of investigation by 

 persons who are members of one or more of 

 the societies composing the alliance. 



An accoimt of the operation of these funds, 

 up to the present time, is given herewith. 



The John Strong Newlerry Fund. — The 

 plan for the administration of this fund, es- 

 tablished as a memorial of Professor New- 

 berry, was adopted by the council of the Sci- 

 entific Alliance on February 25, 1897, and 

 at the same time a grant of $50 was appro- 

 priated for research in geology or paleon- 

 tology. On June 14, 1897, this grant was 

 awarded to Dr. Arthur Hollick for aid in his 

 study of the geology and paleontology of the 

 Atlantic Coastal Plain; during the summer 

 of 1897 Dr. Hollick prosecuted work in New 

 Jersey and on Long Island and Block Island 

 with the special object of tracing the Cre- 

 taceous formation to the latter locality, where 

 its presence had long been assumed but not 

 proved. Dr. Hollick secured the evidence 

 desired by the discovery of a number of spe- 

 cies of well-known Cretaceous plants. The 

 results of these investigations were published 

 in the Annals of the New York Academy of 

 Sciences, XI., 55-88, pis. II.-IX.), under the 

 title ' Notes on Block Island,' which was sub- 

 sequently reprinted as ' Contributions from 

 the Geological Department of Columbia Uni- 

 versity, No. XLII.' 



The second grant from this fund, $50, was 

 awarded by the council on June 22, 1898, to 

 Mr. Gilbert Van Ingen for aid in research in 

 paleontology. Mr. Van Ingen utilized the 

 money in the study of the Silurian Fauna 

 of Arkansas, and his results are published 

 under the title ' The Siluric Fauna near 

 Batesville, Arkansas' in School of Mines 

 Quarterly, XXII., 318-329 (1901), in which 

 the geological relations are discussed, and also 

 in the same journal, XXIIL, 34r-74 (1901), 



where the trilobites of that fauna are de- 

 scribed. 



A third grant of $50 was awarded May 18, 

 1899, to Professor E. S. Burgess for aid in 

 his studies of the genus Aster. Professor 

 Burgess, who has been studying this difficult 

 genus of plants with close attention for many 

 years, is now just about completing his mon- 

 ograph upon them, and it will be printed in 

 Memoirs of the Torrey Botanical Club; some 

 of the results of this study were incorporated 

 by him in the treatment of the genus Aster 

 in the 'Illustrated Flora of the Northern 

 States and Canada' by N. L. Britton and 

 Addison Brown, also in ' Manual of the Flora 

 of the Northern States and Canada ' by N. 

 L. Britton, and have also been used in ' The 

 Flora of Southeastern United States ' by J. 

 K. Small. 



The fourth grant from the fund, also $50, 

 was awarded May 17, 1900, to Dr. Marshall 

 A. Howe, for assistance in his investigation 

 of the algal flora of the Atlantic coast of the 

 United States. Dr. Howe spent some time 

 on the coast of New England and on the Ber- 

 mudas, making extensive collections of the 

 seaweeds of both regions; his studies have 

 not yet been sufficiently advanced to enable 

 publication to be made of them, but it is 

 expected that some of his papers will be 

 printed within a few months. 



The fifth grant was for $100, a friend of 

 the alliance having added enough money to 

 the annual interest on the fund to make up 

 this amount, and it was authorized February 

 28, 1901. It was awarded to Dr. Arthur Hol- 

 lick for assistance in the continuation of his 

 studies upon the paleontology of the Atlantic 

 Coastal Plain. Dr. Hollick's field work, by 

 means of this grant, was carried out for the 

 most part upon Cape Cod and Chappaquidick 

 Island, Mass., where the furthest eastward 

 extension of the Cretaceous formation was 

 shown to occur, by means of the fossil plants 

 collected, and a summary of his results under 

 the title ' Geological and Botanical Notes : 

 Cape Cod and Chippaquidick Island, Mass.,' 

 is published in the Bulletin of the New Yorh 

 Botanical Garden, II., 381-407. 



A sixth grant of $50 was authorized May 



