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SCIENCE, 



[N. S. Vol. XIV. No. 340, 



EQUINOXES AND STORM WINDS. 



At the May meeting of the Eoyal Meteorolog- 

 ical Society (London) Mr. Eupert T. Smith read a 

 paper on ' The Periodicity of Cyclonic Winds,' 

 which was a discussion of his own observations 

 made in the neighborhood of Birmingham dur- 

 ing the years 1874-1890. The equinoxes do' 

 not appear to be very stormy periods, but the 

 greatest frequency and force of cyclonic winds 

 occurs some two weeks before the spring equi- 

 nox and some three weeks after the autumn 

 equinox. 



R. Dec. Ward. 



BIOLOGICAL SURVEY OF THE GREAT LAKES 



BY THE UNITED STATES FISH 



COMMISSION. 



The United States Fish Commission will con- 

 tinue during the present summer the Biological 

 Survey?- of the Great Lakes, inaugurated in 1898. 

 The writer withdraws temporarily from the 

 active management of the enterprise, and the 

 Survey has been placed for the summer under 

 the direction of Professor H. S. Jennings of the 

 University of Michigan, and Professor Henry 

 B. Ward of the University of Nebraska. Ac- 

 tive work begins June 15. 



Professor Ward, with an assistant, will con- 

 tinue the investigations on the plankton and 

 plankton methods carried on during previous 

 summers. 



The remainder of the work, under the imme- 

 diate charge of Dr. Jennings, will have head- 

 quarters at Put-in-Bay, Ohio, on Lake Erie, 

 although the different investigations will be car- 

 ried on at such points on the lakes as are most 

 favorable. The following is a list of the inves- 

 tigators who will be at work, together with the 

 lines of research which will be carried on : 



Professor H. S. Jennings, of the University of 

 Michigan : the movements and reactions of the plank- 

 ton organisms. 



Professor F. C. Newcomhe, of the University of 

 Michigan,, in general charge of the botanical work : 

 physiological investigations into the relations of the 

 lake plants to the water and substratum. 



Professor R. H. Pond, of the Maryland Agricultural 

 College : the distribution of plants and soils at the 

 west end of Lake Erie. 



Professor Julia Snow, of Eockford College : the 

 lake Alg£e. 



Professor S. O. Mast, of Hope College : the breed- 

 ing habits of the sturgeon. 



Mr. Eaymond Pearl, of the University of Michigan: 

 a statistical study of the races of whitefish and wall- 

 eyed pike. 



Mr. Leon J. Cole, of the University of Michigan : 

 a study of the biology and feeding habits of the in- 

 troduced carp, with especial reference to their sup- 

 posed destruction of the eggs of other fish. 



Professor Chas. Fordyce : systematic work on the 

 Cladocera. 



Mr. H. W. Graybill, of the University of Nebraska : 

 the Echinorhynchi of the lake fish. 



The University of Michigan cooperates with 

 the Survey by allowing the use of its extensive 

 library of the fresh-water fauna and of certain 

 apparatus. The U. S. Fish Hatchery at Put- 

 in-Bay will be fitted up as a working laboratory, 

 and the steamer Shearwater, belonging to the 

 Put-in-Bay station, will be employed in some 

 of the investigations undertaken. 



Jacob Reighard. 



Ann Arbor, Mich., June, 1901. 



THE JUBILEE OF THE UNIVERSITY OF 

 GLASGOW. 



One of the most interesting events in connec- 

 tion with the recent celebration at Glasgow 

 was Lord Kelvin's oration on James Watt and 

 Sir Joseph Hooker's address in connection 

 with the opening of the new botanical depart- 

 ment. 



As reported in the London Times, Lord Kel- 

 vin said : 



"The name of James Watt was famous 

 throughout the whole world, in every part of 

 which his great work had conferred benefits on 

 mankind in continually increasing volume up 

 to the present daJ^ It was fitting that the 

 University of Glasgow, in this celebration of its 

 ninth jubilee, should recollect with pride the 

 privilege it happily exercised 145 years ago of 

 lending a helping hand and giving a workshop 

 within its walls to a young man of no Univer- 

 sity education, struggling to begin earning a 

 livelihood as a mathematical instrument-maker, 

 in whom was then discovered something of the 

 genius destined for such great things in the 

 future. In a note by Watt appended to Pro- 

 fessor Robison's dissertation on steam engines, 

 he said that his attention was first directed in 



