GEOGRAPHIC MISCELLANEA 



The British Association for the Advancement of Science has granted 



$5,000 toward the expenses of the English Antarctic expedition of 1901. 



There passed through the American and Canadian ship canals at Sault 



Ste Marie during July 4,024, 789 tons of freight, or 778,000 tons more than 



in the corresponding month last year. 



The medical expedition sent to the Philippines in early spring by the 

 Johns Hopkins University for the purpose of studying the characteristics 

 of tropical diseases in those islands left Manila some weeks since and 

 will probably reach Baltimore early in October. 



"Guarding the Highways of the Sea," contributed by Theodore 

 Waters to McClnre's Magazine for September, is very readable and from 

 a popular point of view is an excellent description of the work and records 

 of the Hydrographic Office of the Navy Department. 



The Railroad Gazette estimates the railroad building in the United 

 States during the six months ending June 30 as aggregating 1,181 miles. 

 The longest line completed by any one company was 64 miles, and the 

 five leading lines aggregated only 244 miles, or an average of less than 

 50 miles each. 



The magnetic survey of Maryland has now been practically completed, 

 the distribution of the stations being such that on the average there is 

 one station for every 100 square miles. The expenses of the work, with 

 the exception of this year, have been entirely borne by the Maryland 

 Geological Survey. 



The excursion of geologists last summer to the fossil fields of Wyom- 

 ing, under the patronage of the Union Pacific Company, will add some 

 rare specimens to the collections of different universities throughout the 

 country. It is believed that several fossils of a new species have been ob- 

 tained. Though the excursion was originally planned for 30 days, many 

 of the geologists are still at work in the field. 



A telegram from Tacoma, Washington, announces the return of A. J. 

 Stone, corresponding member of the Zoological and Ethnological Museum 

 of Natural History and New York Zoological Society, who for the past 

 two years has been traveling about the Arctic circle studying the geograph- 

 ical distribution of animals in that section. It is reported that during five 

 months of travel last winter he covered 3,000 miles of Arctic coast and 

 mountain entirelv above the Arctic circle. 



Reports from Alaska via Seattle, Washington, describe two distinct 

 earthquakes felt from Lynn canal to the Aleutian archipelago. The first 

 on Sum lav, September 3, did but little damage, but it was followed by a 

 very severe shock on September 10. Several islands are said to have 

 settled from 20 to 25 feet. A report received by the U. S. Coast and Geo- 

 detic Survey shows that an earthquake was also felt in Prince William 

 sound on September 3, but that no damage was done at this point. 



