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ing paper on the Fishes of the Caifiif/a Lake Basin. The 
list as given by Professor Meek embraces 21 families and 59 
species including varieties ; 20 species are enumerated as food 
fishes ; 2S species are accounted valuable as food for other 
fishes ; and 5 are of little or no economic value. 
It xkkd elicit no sukpuise to fiml the wives of our leading 
geologists making a name and reputation for themselves in 
the domain of science. Mrs. Anita Newcoml) Mc(Jee is well 
known as a succossfulstudent of sociology and Anthropology. 
Some months were spent last year in personally investigating 
the Iowa communities at Amana and Icara. Among the 
recent publications from the pen of Mrs. McGee are Notes on 
American Cotnmunities, and Organization and Historical 
Sketch of the Woiucifs Anthropological Society of America. 
Professor C. H. Gordon, ok Keokuk, Iowa, has been con- 
tributing a series of interesting articles on geology to the 
local papers, and thus has demonstrated in a very practical 
way what the teachers of our public schools may do in the 
way of disseminating correct scientific information. Local 
interest in geology at Keokuk has recently been stimulated by 
the boring of one or two deep wells. As reported by Prof. 
Gordon the formations passed through are essentially the 
same as those penetrated by the deep well at Washington, 
Iowa and described in the Geologist, Vol. 1, No. 1, Jan. 1888. 
One i)oint of difference of especial interest, however, is the 
presence of heavy beds of limestone below the St. Peter's 
sandstone. Prof. Gordon reports that the St. Peter's was 
passed through at a depth of 1.050 feet, below which point the 
drill ])onetrated a succession of limestones alternating with 
calcareous sandstones,and that at 1770 feet, the depth reached 
at the last report, the drill was still working in hard lime- 
stone. 
It is possible that at Washington, Iowa, as suggested by the 
writer of the article referred to, the equivalent of the Lower 
Magnesian limestone had not been reached when operations 
were suspended. 
Theodore Dwight Woolsey, D.D., L.L.D., for years a 
commanding figure in the world's educational circles, 'died at 
his home in New Haven, July 1, 1880. President Woolsey is 
the name by which he has been most endeared and most wide- 
ly known. From ISfJl to 1871 he was president of Yale col- 
lege ; the burdens of college administration being voluntarily 
laid aside in consec^^uence of advancing age. President Woolsey 
was the author ot a number of books that immediately took 
and permamently held a high rank in their respective (lepart- 
ments of inquiry and investigation. His best work was done 
in the domain of social and political science. 
