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ceived, on July 11, a telegram from the leader 

 of the expedition which is shortly to bring to 

 St. Petersburg the mammoth found in Siberia. 

 The telegram, which is despatched from 

 Yakutsk, reports that the expedition arrived at 

 that place on June 14. It is proceeding by 

 steamer up the river, and will then journey 

 overland to Kolymsk, which is 3,000 versts off, 

 and where it expects to arrive in two and a-half 

 months. The mammoth found is unique of its 

 kind. Its hair, skin and flesh are entirely pre- 

 served, and there are remains of undigested 

 food in its stomach. 



The University of Montana biological col- 

 lecting expedition has spent five weeks in the 

 mountains of the State, and four weeks more are 

 being devoted to the work of the station on Flat- 

 head lake. During the trip several peaks have 

 been ascended in the Mission and Kootenai 

 ranges, and new names have been given to a 

 number of unnamed peaks. Dr. Henry C. 

 Cowles, of the University of Chicago, with a 

 party of about twenty students, will spend ten 

 days at the station studying the botany of the 

 region. The work of the station will close 

 August 16, when the instructors will attend the 

 Denver meeting of the American Association. 



A REPORT of the Geological Survey on the 

 operations of the Kowak Eiver party in Alaska 

 has been submitted by Mr. Mendenhall, the 

 geologist in charge of the work. He says the 

 party reached Dawson, Yukon Territory, on 

 June 4. Mr. Reaburn, of the party, with three 

 camp hands, immediately began to survey a 

 line from Fort Yukon to the mouth of Dall 

 River, approximately 150 miles. This region 

 of the Yukon flats offered no geologic problems 

 other than those involved in the history of a 

 large area of fluvial silts. 



The Council of Birmingham University has 

 agreed to subscribe to a working ' table ' at the 

 Port Erin (Isle of Man) biological station, un- 

 der Professor Herdman, to be placed at the dis- 

 posal of Professor Bridge, for the use of his 

 senior students when studying marine organ- 

 isms, one student to occupy it for a month or 

 more at a time. 



During the opening week of the Minnesota 

 Seaside Station on the west coast of Vancouver 



Island, evening lectures were delivered as fol- 

 lows : 



Professor Conway MacMillan, Univ. of Minn. : 

 ' Waste in Nature. ' 



Mr. K. Yendo, Univ. of Tokio : ' Distribution of 

 Algfe in Japan.' 



Mr. Harold Lyon, Univ. of Minn. : ' Phylogeny 

 of the Cotyledon.' 



Professor Conway MacMillan, Univ. of Minn.: 

 ' Laminariaceas of the Straits of Fuca.' 



Miss Eloise Butler, Central High School, Minne- 

 apolis : ' Collecting Seaweeds in Jamaica. ' 



Dr. Francis Eamaley, Univ. of Colorado : ' Distri- 

 bution of Plants in Colorado.' 

 The new seaside station has had in attendance 

 during its first season thirty students, most of 

 whom have specialized in botany, but some 

 zoological work has also been done. 



Professor B. E. Fernow, director of the New 

 York State College of Forestry, Cornell Uni- 

 versity, and formerly chief of theU. S. Division 

 of Forestry, gave a course of lectures at the 

 University of Chicago, beginning June 24. He 

 treated forestry in its botanical, practical and 

 political aspects. The subjects were as follows : 



'What is Forestry?' (Economic significance of 

 forest resources and need for their management ; 

 definition of terms and historic development of the 

 art of forestry.) 



' The Forest as a Eesource.' (Commercial value of 

 forest products, extent of their use, relation to other 

 industries, significance in the United States. ) 



'The Forest as a Condition.' (Forest influences 

 claimed and observed on climate, water-flow, health. ) 



' How Trees grow. ' ( A chapter of biological den- 

 drology : the development and life-history of the in- 

 dividual forest tree. ) 



'The Mathematics of Forest Growth.' (Accretion 

 and its measurement ; quantitative and qualitative 

 wood production.) 



' The Evolution of Forest Growth.' (Development 

 of forest growths as organisms, ecologic relations. ) 



' Timber Physics. ' ( Characteristics, properties and 

 uses of wood. ) 



' Principles of Silviculture.' (The art of planting, 

 reproducing and improving forest growths. ) 



' Forest Exploitation and Forest Protection. ' 

 (Tending and harvesting the forest crop.) 



' Business Aspects of Forest Management.' (Forest 

 survey, forest regulation and forest finance. ) 



' Forest Policies of Foreign Nations.' (The relation 

 of the state to forest resources and how it has evolved 

 itself in Europe. ) 



