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of Butte milling district, Montana, and will 

 continue field work in investigation of copper 

 deposits in Appalachian region. 



White, David, geologist, will continue in- 

 vestigation on paleobotany of the Pottsville 

 and higher Coal Measures in the Appalachian 

 field and will make reconnaissance examina- 

 tion of iialcobotauy of northern Texas coal 

 field. 



Williams, Professor H. S., geologist and 

 paleontologist, will make areal survey of Ith- 

 aca thirty-minute quadrangle, Xew York, and 

 continue studies on Devonian paleontology 

 and stratigraphy. 



Willis, Bailey, chief of section, has been 

 granted leave of absence for a year, to carry 

 on stratigraphic investigations in China under 

 the Carnegie Institution. 



Wolff, Professor John E., assistant geolo- 

 gist, will continue areal surveys in southern 

 Vermont and Xew Hampshire. 



Woolsey, Lester H., assistant geologist, will 

 assist John M. Boutwell in completion of in- 

 vestigation of mining geology of Park City 

 district, Utah, and in reconnaissance of Coal- 

 ville quadrangle. 



Wright, Charles W., field assistant, will 

 assist Dr. Arthur C. Spencer in investigation 

 of areal and economic geology of Juneau 

 mining district, and in reconnaissance of eco- 

 nomic geology of Berners Bay and other min- 

 ing districts of southeastern Alaska. 



SCIEXTIFIC ^'OTES AND NEWS. 



Sir W. R.\msay has been elected president 

 of the Society of Chemical Industry. The 

 society has decided to meet next year in New 

 York City. 



Ix order to devote his entire time to the 

 work of the newly organized Department of 

 Anthropology and Ethnology in the Louisiana 

 Purchase E.Kposition, Dr. W J McGee re- 

 signed his position in the Bureau of American 

 Ethnology on July 31, and assumed duty as 

 chief of the new department on August 1. 

 The exhibits will include living representative 

 groups of various primitive peoples, an Indian 

 school in regular operation, and sections of 

 archeology, history, etc. 



It is proposed to celebrate the seventieth 

 birthday of Professor August Weismann, 

 which will occur on January 17, 1904. The 

 committee has decided to have prepared for 

 that time a portrait bust of Professor Weis- 

 mann which shall be deposited at the Zoolog- 

 ical Institute of the University of Freiburg 

 with appropriate festivities. It invites cooper- 

 ation in this undertaking, not only from those 

 who owe scientific stimulus to Professor Weis- 

 mann and have been guided by him into 

 zoological activity, but also from all col- 

 leagues who desire to join in honoring Pro- 

 fessor Weismann for his work. Contributions 

 may be sent to the Deutsche Bank, Leipzig, 

 for the accoimt of Professor Zur Strassen, 

 who is treasurer. The alphabetical list of all 

 contributors without statement of amount will 

 be printed, and will accompany the bust. The 

 American members of the committee of fifteen 

 are Professor H. H. Wilder, of Smith Col- 

 lege, and Professor Henry B. Ward, of the 

 University of Nebraska. 



The Worshipful Company of Drapers have 

 contributed £1,000 to assist Professor Karl 

 Pearson in his statistical researches at Univer- 

 sity College, London, and in the higher work 

 of his department. 



Mr. J. HuTCHixsox, F.E.S., who has re- 

 cently returned from the study of leprosy in 

 India, was given a complimentary dinner on 

 July 23 by the members of the medical pro- 

 fession to celebrate his seventy-fifth birthday. 



Mr. Charles Schuchert will represent the 

 U. S. National Museum at the Vienna Inter- 

 national Congress of Geologists. He is at 

 present studying European, Silurian and De- 

 vonian rocks. 



Mr. Ford A. Carpenter, U. S. Weather 

 Bureau, San Diego, Cal., has sailed for San 

 Quetiii, Mexico, where he will spend a month 

 in meteorological and other investigations on 

 the San Piedra Martir, a 12,000 foot plateau 

 in the Baja California peninsula. 



The American Geologist states that Dr. C. 

 R. Eastman, of Harvard University, who has 

 been spending his sabbatical year abroad in 

 special paleontological research, has returned 



