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representing the remains of organisms which hved 300,000,000 years 

 ago in the Devonian era of the Pahrozoic. Most of them, however, are 

 more recent — only about 120,000,000 years old — and come from the 

 Jurassic era of the Mesozoic. They include many genera of ammonites, 

 almost every specimen belonging to a distinct genus, and a large nvnnber 

 of brachiopods, pelccypods, gastropods and echinoderms, the entire 

 fauna ranging in age through the Middle and Upper Jurassic and pos- 

 sibly down into the Lower Jurassic. The collection is valuable biologi- 

 cally because it contains many new species and stratigraphically because 

 it will fill in one of the gaps in the geological column. It is by this pro- 

 cess of gathering new data in regions which have been little studied that 

 we obtain our knowledge of the extent of ancient lands and seas and of 

 the distribution of the marine faunas of the past. 



Julian Bin-roughs, son of John Burroughs, and Dr. Clara Barrus, 

 Literary Executor of the John Burroughs estate, have given their en- 

 dorsement to a plan for a Memorial Association to take over and care for 

 Slabsides, Riverby and W'oodchuck Lodge, the three places most closely 

 associated with the life and writings of the i)oet-naturalist, and the pas- 

 ture where Burroughs's grave is. 



A call for a meeting of Burroughs's friends, for the purpose of select- 

 ing a Memorial Committee, was sent out by Dr. Chapman, Dr. Fisher, 

 Mr. Akeley, Hamlin Garland, Dr. Clara Barrus, Professor Osborn, 

 Kermit Roosevelt, Irving Bacheller. W. Ormiston Roy and Edwin 

 Markham. 



The meeting was held at the IMu.seum on April loth, and was attended 

 by a large number of Burroughs's friends. On resolution of Mr. Garland, 

 a committee of nine was chosen to have the association incorporated as a 

 memorial association to buy and preserve the shrines, adopt a plan of 

 organization and draw by-laws. The members of the Committee are: 

 Dr. Chapman, Chairman; Dr. Fisher; Mr. Garland; Mrs. Henry Ford ; 

 Mrs. Thomas A. Edison; Judge A. T. Clearwater; Kermit Roosevelt; 

 Mr. Akeley; \\'. Ormiston Roy. 



On April 9th, the schooner "Bowdoin." built by Mr. MacMillan 

 for his next Arctic voyage, was launched at East Boothbay, Maine. 

 Mr. MacMillan j)lans to start in July on a two-years' expedition which 

 will take him through the dangerous Fury and Hecla Strait on the West 



