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will spend his summer vacation in examining some of the deposits of coal in the central part of the province.

Bliss Carman, one of the New Brunswick poets, is living in New York. A few months ago he published a volume of poems—"Ballads of Lost Haven." He has another volume in preparation, which will appear soon.

Robert Chalmers has been for a number of years on the staff of the Geological Survey. He resides at Ottawa. A recent number of the American Journal of Science contains an article by him on the Pre-glacial Decay of Rocks in Eastern Canada. Mr. Chalmers has made an excellent record in his profession, and his studies in glacial geology are among the most important made in this country.

Prof. A. Wilmer Duff, while in New Brunswick last summer, made a number of experiments on sound. The results were recently published in the Physical Review. He also made some tidal observations, which will be published in the forthcoming Bulletin of the Natural History Society. Prof. Duff and family will spend the summer in New Brunswick.

Prof. William F. Ganong is one of our most industrious workers. Early in the year a sketch of the Smith College Botanic Gardens, written by him, appeared in Garden and Forest. In the Botanical Gazette for April he has a learned article on Polyembryony in Opuntia Vulgaris (one of the cactus family.) Prof. Ganong is recognized as an authority on this group of plants. Of more interest to Maritime Province readers, however, are two articles from his pen which appear in the last volume of the Royal Society. In his study of the Raised Peat Bogs he describes his investigations of the bogs of Charlotte and St. John counties. The subject matter is well illustrated by maps and drawings. His monograph of the Cartography of New Brunswick