612 The American Naturalist. ġ Lune, 
State Geological Survey of Kansas.—In conformity with the 
law under which the University of Kansas is now working, the Board 
of Regents at a recent meeting formally organized the University 
Geological Survey of Kansas with Chancellor F. H. Snow, ex-officio 
Director; Professor S. W. Williston, Paleontologist; Professor Erasmus 
Haworth, Geologist and Mineralogist; and Professor E. H. S. Bailey 
Chemist. 
In addition to these, other members of the University Faculty, as 
well as the advanced students of the departments of Geology and 
Paleontology, will be engaged upon the work of the Survey. An effort 
will also be made to centralize and unify the energies of different geol- 
ogists in the State who have been doing valuable work along different 
lines of geological investigations. Already a considerable start has 
been made and the co-operation of different geologists of the State has 
been secured. 
Work in the Coal Measures of the State has been in progress for 
two summers, and Volume I of the Report is now almost ready for 
publication. Other volumes will appear at irregular intervals. Those 
already under preparation are : One on Coal, Oil and Gas; one on the 
Vertebrate Paleontology of the State; and one on the Salt and Gyp- 
sum deposits of Kansas. 
The Summer Course of the University Extension Asso- 
ciation will be held at the University of Pennsylvania in July, 1895, 
the course in Biology extending from July 1st to 26th. The lectures 
and laboratory courses will be conducted by L. H. Bailey (Cornell), 
E. D. Cope (Pennsylvania), G. L. Goodale (Harvard), B. D. Halsted 
(Rutgers), J. M. Macfarlane (Pennsylvania), J. S. Kingsley song 
O. Whitman (Chicago), W. P. Wilson (Pennsylvania), L. L. W. Wil- 
son (Philadelphia Normal School). 
The Missouri State Horticultural Society will hold its Semi- 
Annual Meeting at the Opera House, Willow Springs, Mo., June 4, 5 
and 6, 1895. The Kansas City, Ft. Scott and Memphis and Central 
Branch Railways will give a rate of half fare for round trip. The 
San Francisco and Missouri Pacific Railroads will give a rate of one 
and one-third fare on the certificate plan. Hotels will give rates of 
$1.00 per day and 75 cents per day. 
The Colorado State Science Teachers’ Association held 
its first meeting—since its organization in December last—in Denver, 
April 3d inst. The object of the association is to promote a better 
grade of instruction in the elementary schools and high schools of the 
State. 
