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Ohio Valley, to which belong Wyandotte and Mam- 

 moth caves, and is much more ideally adapted for 

 experimental work with cave animals than either 

 of the larger eaves. On it are easily accessible 

 some very large rooms provided with water. On 

 it are the only entrances to an underground 

 stream which I have followed over a mile by 

 actual measurement and from which all of my 

 material of A»(6?yops/s was obtained. Finally 

 on it the stream comes to the surface under condi- 

 tions that make the farm admiiably adapted for 

 surface ponds and pools to rear cave animals in 

 the light. 



The American Association at its Washington 

 meeting passed resolutions asking the state of 

 Indiana to set this aside for a state reservation, 

 I and part of it for an experimental farm for the 

 investigation of cave animals, etc. In the winter 

 of 1902 the state legislature passed a bill in part 

 as follows: 



" The title of all such lands shall be and remain 

 in the state of Indiana, and such lands shall be 

 devoted to educational purposes. 



" The control and management of all such lands 

 shall be vested in the trustees of Indiana Uni- 

 versity and such lands may be used by said trus- 

 tees for any proper educational purposes. 



" Said board of trustees may in its discretion 

 set off any portion of such grounds to the use of 

 the state board of forestry or to that of Purdue 

 University, or any other educational or scientific 

 institution of the state." 



In the meanwhile the heirs appealed the suit 

 to the supreme court of Indiana which also ruled 

 in favor of the state in August of 1903. The 

 heirs thereupon asked the same supreme court to 

 grant them a new hearing before itself and there 

 the matter has been suspended for over a year. 

 It seems very probable that this farm will ulti- 

 mately pass into the possession of the Indiana 

 University and can then be used for experimental 

 work with cave animals. 



I have personally received a grant from the 

 Carnegie Institution which enabled me to make 

 further attempts to secure the embryological ma- 

 terial of the Cuban blind fishes, without, however, 

 being entirely successful in securing this much- 

 desired series of embryos. 



The most notable and systematic piece of cave 

 work so far undertaken is in preparation by my 

 assistant, Mr. A. M. Banta. He is making a phys- 

 ical and biological survey of Mayfield's cave, 

 situated but five miles from my laboratory. He 

 has determined the distribution of animals in the 

 cave, the per cents, of the total cave fauna that is 



accidental, occasional or permanent. He is 

 working in the interrelation of these forms and 

 determining the modifications of the permanent 

 members of the fauna to adapt them to cave life. 

 This piece of work will form a base line for future 

 work with the fauna of caves, and it is very de- 

 sirable that Mr. Banta be enabled to make 

 similar studies of a few selected caves in the 

 various cave regions of America. 



It is recommended that the committee be con- 

 tinued and that an appropriation of $100 be made 

 to continue the work of the committee. 



Respectfully submitted for the committee. 



C. H. EiGENMANN, Secretary, 

 Theo. Gill, 

 S. H. Gage. 



On Indexing Chemical Literature. 



The committee on indexing chemical literature, 

 appointed by your body at the Montreal meeting 

 in 1882, respectfully presents to the Chemical Sec- 

 tion its twenty-second annual report, covering the 

 eighteen months ending December 1, 1904. 

 Works Puilished : 



'A Select Bibliography of Chemistry, 1492- 



1902, ' by Henry Carrington Bolton, Second Sup- 

 plement. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections, 

 No. 1440, City of Washington, 1904. 



This supplement brings down the literature of 

 chemistry from the close of the year 1897 to the 

 close of the year 1902. The author died while the 

 publication was in press and most of the proof- 

 reading, as well as the preparation of the index, 

 was done by Mr. Axel Moth, of the New York 

 Public Library. 



In the Arbeiten aus dem Kaiserlichen Gesund- 

 heitsanit, volume 21, pages 141 to 155, appears a 

 critical bibliography of sulfur dioxid in wine, by 

 W. Kerp. 



Indexes on the literature of gallium and of ger- 

 manium, by Dr. Philip E. Browning, of New 

 Haven, Conn., have been completed and accepted 

 by the Smithsonian Institution for publication. 



An index to the literature of radium and radio- 

 activity has been completed by Dr. Chas. Basker- 

 ville and Mr. Geo. F. Kunz, and is expected to 

 appear in a bulletin of the United States Geolog- 

 ical Survey, as an appendix to a paper by Mr. 

 Kunz on radium. 



An inde.x to the literature of solubilities, 1875- 



1903, by Mr. Atherton Seidell, of the Bureau of 

 Soils, is now in the hands of the committep. 



The index to the literature of glucinum bj^ Pro- 

 fessor Chas. E. Parsons, of New Hampshire Col- 

 lege, Durham, N. H., has been completed. 



