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and geology of the region about Devil’s Lake and the dells of the 
Wisconsin River. Prof. G. L. Collie, of Beloit, will complete the 
preparation of a general account of the physical geography of south- 
ern Wisconsin, the field work for which was nearly completed last 
season. Prof. D. P. Nicholson will work at physical geography, prob- 
ably in the northern part of the state. Prof. L. S. Cheney is pre- 
paring a popular report on the forest trees of the state. Prof. E. A. 
Birge, of the State University, and Prof. C. D. Marsh intend to carry 
on their studies of the plankton of the lakes in the central and south- . 
ern parts of the state. The Survey has two bulletins in type : one 
by Filibert Roth, of the United States Department of Agriculture, 
upon the forest conditions of the state, and one by Dr. and Mrs. 
G. W. Peckham, on the habits and instincts of the solitary wasps. Mr. 
S. Weidman has ready for publication a bulletin on certain volcanic 
rocks in the Fox River Valley. 
The following appointments to fellowships are announced: at 
Columbia University, botany, E. Hagen; geology, J. D. Irving; 
zoology, F. C. Paulmier; psychology, R. S. Woodworth. At Johns 
Hopkins University: physiology, P. M. Dawson; geology, L. C. 
Glenn ;. zodlogy, G. O. James. Tufts College : biology, S. P. Capen. 
The last annual report of the British Museum shows that the num- 
ber of visitors to the Natural History Museum during 1896 was 
417,033 on week days and 36,923 on Sundays, making a total of 
453,956 as compared with 446,737 (on week days only) in the year 
1895. The average attendance for all open days, including Sundays, 
during the year was 1316 ; that for week days only, 1336, as com- 
pared with 1436 in 1895, thus making the average week-day attend- 
ance 150 less in 1896 than in 1895. The museum was opened for 
the first time on Sunday, on May 17, 1896, and the figures would 
seem to indicate that after the inauguration of the Sunday openings, 
daily, at least 100 visits were postponed until Sundays; and that 
owing to the Sunday opening, there was, in little more than half a 
year, a net gain of 7219 visitors to the museum. 
Recent appointments: B. M. Duggar, instructor in botany in 
Cornell University. — Dr. J. E. Durand, reappointed instructor in 
botany in Cornell University.— Dr. Fischer, docent in anatomy 
in the German University at Prague. — W. J. Gies, instructor in 
physiology at Yale.— E. S. Goodrich, demonstrator of anatomy in 
Oxford University. — Dr. Karl Hischeler, private docent in zoology 
