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Requirements in Meteorology for the Committee on Admission 

 Requirements, and has edited a series of " Current Notes on 

 Meteorology " in Science. The chief additions to his laboratory 

 collections are a series of Mercator wall maps of isotherms and 

 isobars, enlarged from the maps in Buchan's Challenger Report 

 for lecture use. 



Ten years ago, a series of geographical models designed by 

 Professor Davis was constructed with the aid of Mr. J. H. Emer- 

 ton of Boston for use in one of the Lowell free lecture courses in 

 the Teachers' School of Science of the Boston Society of Natural 

 History. Several sets of these models, reproduced in paper by 

 Mr. Emerton, were sold to colleges and schools. One set has been 

 in constant use in the Geographical Laboratory of the Museum, 

 and has been of great service ; but it has been increasingly de- 

 sirable in recent years to make a new series of models of greater 

 accuracy, and on an improved plan. Hitherto, this has been 

 impossible on account of the expense involved in securing the 

 services of a competent modeller ; but in the autumn of 1896, a 

 fund of several hundred dollars was subscribed for this object by 

 a number of ladies and gentlemen of Boston interested in educa- 

 tional problems, and a long cherished plan was put into execution. 

 Among the subscribers to this fund, Miss Marian C. Jackson must 

 be mentioned, as without her support the undertaking could not 

 have reached its present measure of success. The services of Mr. 

 George C. Curtis, recently a student of geology and geography in 

 the Lawrence Scientific School, were secured in October, 1896, and 

 in June, 1897, ten sets of three models each — or thirty models in 

 all — had been constructed after original designs by Professor 

 Davis : one model representing a deeply dissected mountainous 

 region, descending to the sea ; the second, including a coastal 

 plain revealed on the border of the mountains in consequence of 

 a regional elevation ; the third exhibiting an irregular coast of 

 promontories and bays, produced by a general depression of the 

 first. An account of the models has been published in the Pro- 

 ceedings of the Boston Society of Natural History, and all the sets 

 thus far constructed have been engaged by various Normal and 

 other schools, although not at this date actually sold. It is hoped 

 that it will be possible to continue this work during the coming 

 year, with the double object of supplying schools with better 

 materials for teaching geography, and inducing some enterprising 



