MUSEUM OF COMPARATIVE ZOOLOGY. 13 



Service Examination for the position of Assistant Geologist on the 

 U. S. Geological Survey, held April 23 and 24, 1901, and were at 

 once given field employment in Pennsylvania, Alaska, Massa- 

 chusetts and elsewhere. Some of these students were graduates 

 of Course 22 only, others of both Courses 22 and 23. It is worthy 

 of note that of the 46 successful applicants for this examination 

 from all over the United States, 14 had received academic and grad- 

 uate instruction at Harvard. 



Professor Davis has conducted the advanced course in Physiog- 

 raphy (Geology 20) throughout the year, and the half course on the 

 Physiography of the United States (Geology 6) through the second 

 half-year ; both courses having been carried on in the same way 

 as heretofore. One student in the advanced course, Mr. A. W. G. 

 Wilson, having spent the previous summer in field work in Ontario, 

 completed his thesis on the Physical Geology of Central Ontario 

 during the winter, and received the degree of Ph.D. in Physical 

 Geology at Commencement ; he has since then been appointed to 

 a position on the Geological Survey of Canada. Another student, 

 Mr. G. D. Hubbard, made special studies on fiords and on certain 

 other coastal features; he has been appointed instructor in physi- 

 ography at the State Normal School, Charleston, 111. Prof. C. F. 

 McFarlane, of the State Normal College, Ypsilanti, Mich., spent 

 part of the second half-year in Cambridge, studying with special 

 relation to Physiography. A fourth student, Mr. L. M. Prindle, 

 spent the summer in field work on Sierra La Sal, Colorado, 

 accumulating material for a petrographic and physiographic thesis. 

 Professor Davis gave much time in the first half-year to the prep- 

 aration of an account of his excursion to the Colorado canon, of 

 the previous summer ; the report has been published in the Bulle- 

 tin of the Museum. During the spring he has undertaken special 

 studies of river terraces in New England, and will publish an 

 essay on that subject. In the summer he made a second excursion 

 to the Colorado canon in Arizona, with special reference to the 

 unconformities there exhibited on a large scale. 



The summer course in Geography was given on the same lines 

 as in previous years by Mr. H. T. Burr, a recent Harvard graduate 

 and at present instructor in the State Normal School, New Britain, 

 Conn. He was assisted by Mr. C. H. Morrill. Professor Davis 

 gave six lectures in the first week of the course. The number of 

 students was 22. 



