630 
230; trilobites, 425; annelids, 40; rhizopods 
and polyzoans, 10; sponges, 60; bryozoans, 
760; corals and allied forms, 1,525 ; lamelli- 
branchs, 1,625; gasteropods, 1,800; cephalo- 
pods, 850; pteropods, 60; brachiopods, 3,175 ; 
eystids, 85; echinoids, 175; blastoids, 150; 
star fishes, 50; crinoids, 1,250 (fully 700 with 
heads and arms complete); hydrozoa, 90; dia- 
toms, 25; plants, 400. The collection, as we 
have stated, is for sale and itis hoped that it 
may be secured for some institution in Illinois. 
AN item in the daily papers to the effect that 
M. Becquerel has recently been admitted with 
honors to the Heole polytechnique, Paris, is of 
sufficient interest to be quoted here, in view of 
the fact that he is the son, grandson and great- 
grandson of eminent physicists. M. Henri 
Becquerel, his father, is the distinguished pro- 
fessor of physics in the Ecole polytechnique; A. 
E. Becquerel, the grandfather, formerly pro- 
fessor of physics in the Eeole des Arts et 
Metiers, is well known for his important contri- 
butions to physics, chemistry and meteorology; 
the great-grandfather, A. C. Becquerel, director 
of the Paris Museum of Natural History, was 
a physicist of great eminence, whose dis- 
coveries in electro-chemistry are known every- 
where; an uncle, L. A. Becquerel, was also a 
man of science of distinction. 
Dr. W. F. MorsELt sends us the following 
further decisions of the United States Board on 
. Geographic Names: In Kansas it should be 
Junction, not Junction City, as generally under- 
stood ; so, also, in the same State, Empire City 
and Osage City are similarly abbreviated by the 
Board. A dozen or more decisions affect names 
in New York State, but they are unimportant. 
The creek, mountain and pond in Hssex county 
is Vanderwhacker, not Van der Whacken, etc., 
and the river in the Adirondack region is Sa- 
cundaga, not Sacandaga, Sacondago, etc., as 
variously written. Thechannel north of Staten 
Island is Kill van Kull, not Kill von Kull, being 
of Dutch origin, not German. In Gilmer 
county, Georgia, there is a postoffice which the 
Board writes Santaluca, This is not from the 
Spanish, as one would suppose, but from the 
Cherokee Indian language. Among foreign 
names, on which there are a few decisions, the 
SCIENCE. 
[N. S. Voz. VI. No. 147. 
Board decides on Austria-Hungary, and also 
favors Burma (not Birmah nor Burmah). The 
German city should be Mainz. The German 
government has protested to our Consuls for 
spelling the word in the French way—Mayence. 
THE Macmillan Company have just published 
the course of lectures by ‘The Founders of Ge- 
ology’ given last winter by Sir Archibald Geikie 
to inaugurate the lectureship in the Johns Hop- 
kins University founded by Mrs. Williams in 
memory of the late Professor Williams. In 
the preface to the volume Sir Archibald Geikie 
speaks of geological work and geological oppor- 
tunity in America as follows: ‘‘ Renewing old 
friendships with some of the veterans of the sci- 
ence, and forming fresh ties of sympathy with 
many younger workers who have come to the 
front in more recent years, I could not but be 
impressed by the extraordinary vitality which 
geology has now attained in the United States. 
Every department of the science has its en- 
thusiastic votaries. Surveys, professorships, 
museums, societies, journals in almost every 
State, are the outward embodiment of the geo- 
logical zeal that appears to animate the whole 
community. This remarkably rapid develop- 
ment of the science has not arisen from any in- 
fluence derived from without, but springs, as it 
seems to me, from the marvellous geological 
riches of the American continent itself. In 
minerals and rocks, in stratigraphical fulness, 
in paleontological profusion, in physiographical 
illustrations, the United States have not only 
no need to borrow materials from Europe, 
but in many important respects can pro- 
duce examples and materials such as cannot 
be equaled on this side of the Atlantic. Had 
the study of the earth begun in the New World 
instead of the Old, Geology would have un- 
questionably have made a more rapid advance 
than it has done. The future progress of the 
science may be expected to be largely directed 
and quickened by discoveries made in America, 
and by deductions from the clear evidence pre- 
sented on that continent.’’ 
THE American Geologist publishes two extra- 
ordinary letters from the person who has been 
appointed State Geologist of Missouri. One of 
these letters concludes as follows: 
