Kansas University Weekly.
249
Snow Hall.
The Histology Department recently secured a fine specimen of a human brain.
Chinch bugs are very abundant this spring in the vicinity of Lawrence. Some have been found to be already infected with sporotrichium.
Sufficient chinch bug "infection" has been preserved from last year's cultures in the Botany Department to supply the needs of the coming season.
Mr. E. C. Case, A. M.'93, visited Lawrence last week. Mr. Case will spend the summer collecting vertebrate fossils from the Permian deposits of northwest Texas, for the University of Chicago.
A cinnamon teal, anas cyanoptera, was shot on the river a few days ago. These ducks are reported numerous at present. The cinnamon teal's geographical range is farther westward and its presence this far east is unusual.
A number of students of Natural History are doing original work in Snow Hall. Mr. R. C. Gowell, in the Zoology Department, is studying the myology of gophers and moles. In the Geology Departmant, Mr. W. N. Logan is preparing a paper on the stratigraphy of the Kansas cretaceous deposits, and Mr. M. Z. Kirk one on the manufacture and mining of salt in Kansas. Mr. A. Stewart and Mr. E. S. Riggs, both in the Paleontology Department, are making restorations of fossil animals. Mr. Stewart is working on Oreodon, of which several specimens were obtained by the last two University geological expeditions. Mr. Riggs has in the last Quarterly a description of a new species of sabre-toothed tiger, Dirsictis paucidens and is making a restoration of another species, Hoplophoneus occidentalis. In the Entomology Department, Miss Carrie Quinlan is writing a treatise on the insects of a limited locality with regard to their habits and life histories. Mr. H. M. Menke, also in the last named department, is preparing a paper on the chaetoloxy of the family of diptera, asilidæ.
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