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teaching of geography and related subjects in the secondary 

 schools. A report on the work of the conference will be duly 

 published. A sub-committee was appointed by the geographical 

 conference, consisting of Mr. C. F. King of the Dearborn Grammar 

 School, Boston, Professor G. L. Collie, of Beloit College, Wisconsin, 

 and the writer, to prepare a list of governmental maps that might 

 be advisably used in geographical teaching. The committee met 

 in our Laboratory in June, and made a selection of about two 

 hundred maps and charts from among those published by our vari- 

 ous official surveys. This list will be shortly published, with indi- 

 cations of the means of obtaining the maps, and with some account 

 of the features that they illustrate. It is believed that the list 

 may have a beneficial effect on the teaching of geography in the 

 schools. 



The field study of the Triassic area of Connecticut, mentioned 

 in my previous reports as having been undertaken for the United 

 States Geological Survey, has been finished during the past year, 

 with the assistance of Mr. L. S. Griswold. Mr. Griswold has also 

 completed a colored map of the district on the topographical 

 sheets of the survey, and has prepared a number of true-scale sec- 

 tions, on which, after plotting the various fault-lines by which the 

 formation is frequently dislocated, he has indicated the inferred 

 depth of the deposits underground, and has restored the portion 

 lost by erosion above ground ; he then reversed the movements on 

 the fault-lines, and thus returned the dislocated blocks of each 

 section to their original positions, as nearly as can be determined ; 

 producing an excellent illustration of the trough in which the 

 Triassic sandstones and lavas were accumulated. 



Much spare time has been given during the past two years to 

 the completion of a text-book of Meteorology, which is now in the 

 printer's hands. It will be ready for use with the class in Elemen- 

 tary Meteorology, in the second half of the current year. 



Besides the share that Mr. Ward has had in the work of the 

 elementary courses, he has carried on a special study of thunder- 

 storms in New England for the National Weather Bureau, and 

 has continued in the editorship of the " American Meteorological 

 Journal," of which mention was made in the last Report. Finding 

 that the preparation of the Journal calls for an increasing share of 

 his time, he proposes to withdraw from certain of his other duties 

 for the coming year, and devote a greater part of his time to 

 editorial work. 



