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kaolins and bauxites ; (4) Zinc and lead ; (5) Report on the 
general geolog\- of the state. Provisions were also made for 
printing new editions of the reports already out. — {Science.) 
Vice-President Branner, of Stanford Universit}-, will 
conduct an expedition to Brazil during the summer to work 
upon the geolog\- of the stone and coral reefs of the coast. 
These reefs, more or less broken, extend from Ceara to the 
Abrolhos, a distance of more than a thousand miles. Mr. 
Branner did much work upon these reefs while he was con- 
nected with the geological survey of Brazil, but the field 
observations were never finished and the results of the work 
were not published. He hopes to complete his work during 
the summer vacation. The expenses of the expedition will 
be paid chiefly by Prof. Alexander Agassiz, and the results 
will be published by the Museum of Comparative Zoology, 
at Harvard. — {Science.) 
The American Museum of Natural History is send- 
ing out two expeditions this summer for the collection of 
vertebrate fossils. One has already gone to continue work 
in the regions whence so man\' fine skeletons of Tertiary 
mammals have come to the Museum, and the other soon goes 
to get more of the great Mesozoir reptiles. 
The Skeleton of the great Mosasaur which was ob- 
tained from the Kansas Cretaceous last season b\' an Am- 
erican Museum expedition has been mounted and is now on 
exhibition in the Museum. It has been kept in the matrix 
and, on account of the double curve in which it lies and the 
loss of the last ten feet or more of its tail, it occupies a 
shallow case or frame about thirty feet long by six feet high. 
Prof. J. F. Kemp and Mr. G. Van Ingen will spend the 
first ten days of June in study field work in geology with 
Columbia .School of Mines students on the Cortlandt series 
near Peekskill and on the Paleozoic rocks near Rondout. 
The first ten days of July will be devoted b\' Prof. Kemp to 
similar work with another partv at and near Iron Mountain. 
Mo. 
Dr. Arthur Hollick plans to spend a week in June 
studying the strata bordering the Chesapeake bay in com- 
pany with the Maryland Geological Survey part}-, prepara- 
tory to beginning work on the paleobotany of the state. 
Wisconsin Geological and Natural History Survey. 
The Wisconsin legislature, which has recently adjourned, 
has appropriated $10,000 per year, for two years, for this 
surve), which is under the directorship of Prof. E. A. Birge. 
The geological work is directed by Prof. C. R. Van Hise, 
who acts as consulting geologist. The lines of geological 
investigation to be carried on this summer are as follows: 
( I ) Dr. E. R. Buckley will investigate the clays of the state. 
