344 Scientific News. [May, 
It is greatly to be regretted that the work is in the future appar- 
ently to be conducted on so narrow and limited a scale, for which 
the scientific world may thank the two or three naturalists who 
have been conspicuous in shaping legislation in this whole mat- 
ter. It has even been strongly intimated that hereafter no zoölogy 
and botany is to. be connected with the future geological work. 
This is to be deprecated by biologists throughout the country, 
who are probably unaware how much has been done to influence 
those in authority at Washington, and to prejudice them against 
giving national aid to these sciences. ill this is a new feature in 
the history of science in this country, and has been, we are led to 
believe, the result of narrow, local private jealousies, rather than 
from any generous, catholic, scientific spirit. Since the time of 
Lewis and Clark’s Expedition, naturalists have been sent out with 
the national scientific expeditions, at little expense to the general 
government; with nearly all surveying parties, topographical and 
geological; the reports of the naturalists of the U. S. Exploring 
Expedition, of the Pacific Railway Surveys, of the naturalists who | 
have prepared the botanical and zodlogical reports of Hayden’s 
Survey, have added immensely to the prestige of American biologi- 
cal science; it has been done at little extra expense, most of the 
cost of printing not having been paid for out of the funds appro- 
priated for the surveys themselves. No richer results in biology 
and paleontology and physical geology combined have been elic- 
ited in this country than the researches carried on by Pourtales, 
legislators and those in authority at Washington, with singular 
inconsistency, by certain of those who have and are even now en- 
joying the results of the biological work thus inexpensively 
carried on with the U. S. Coast Survey, that no zodlogy or bot- 
any should be connected with the geological surveys ! 
From the very fact that the largest, best known survey in this 
country and in Europe, one which more than any other survey in 
this country, unless we except the New York State Survey, has 
won the warmest sympathy and interest from the leading geol- 
Academy, Congress would vote still larger supplies, and have the 
= work done in a liberal, broad, comprehensive spirit consistent with 
