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He was a member of the Washington 

 Academy of Sciences and the author of 

 several bulletins published by the Geo- 

 logical Survey. 



During 1901-1903 Mr Goode was the 

 •chairman of the Committee on Technical 

 Meetings of the National Geographic 

 Society. He has been an occasional con- 



tributor to the National Geographic 

 Magazine, his last article being pub- 

 lished in January, 1900, "The Idaho- 

 Montana Boundary Line." 



Mr Goode was a man of exceedingly 

 attractive personality, whose sudden 

 death in the prime of life is mourned by 

 a large circle of warm friends. 



NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY 



PROFESSOR A. J. HENRY, Secre- 

 tary of the National Geographic 

 Society since November, 1899, because 

 of the pressure of responsible official 

 duties and ill-health, was obliged to re- 

 sign from the secretaryship October 2, 

 1903. The prosperity and continued 

 activity of the National Geographic 

 Society during the last four years have 

 been largely due to the personal atten- 

 tion and zeal which Professor Henry 

 has freely and constantly given to the 

 Society. His resignation has been ac- 

 cepted by the Board of Managers with 

 exceeding regret. 



The new Secretary of the Society is 

 Hon. O. P. Austin, who was unani- 

 mously elected by the Board of Man- 

 agers. Mr Austin is Chief of the Bu- 

 reau of Statistics of the Department of 

 Commerce and Labor, and has been a 

 member of the Board of Managers of 

 the Society since January, 1903. By 



means of the original monthly mono- 

 graphs and other contributions of the 

 Bureau of Statistics, as well as by his 

 personal publications, he may be said to 

 have originated a new school of com- 

 mercial geography in the United States. 



The expedition of Dr Frederick Cook 



for the ascent of Mount McKinle}', 

 and also the expedition of Miss Annie 

 S. Peck for the ascent of Mount Sorata, 

 were unsuccessful in gaining the sum- 

 mits of these lofty mountains. 



A new division has been established in 

 the U.' S. Geological Survey, entitled 

 the " Division of Alaskan Mineral Re- 

 sources," which will embrace all of the 

 investigations and surveys being carried 

 on in Alaska. This division is coordi- 

 nate with the others of the geologic 

 branch of the Survey, and its chief will 

 report to the director. Mr Alfred H. 

 Brooks has been made chief of the new 

 division. 



GEOGRAPHIC LITERATURE 



Elements of Geology. By Joseph Le 

 Conte. Revised and partly rewritten 

 by Herman Le Roy Fairchild. Fifth 

 edition. With over 1,000 figures in 

 the text. Pp. xii + 767. 6x9 

 inches. New York : D. Appleton & 

 Co. 1903. $4.00. 

 This fifth edition of a work which for 

 ■25 years has been the standard text- 

 book of geology is most welcome. Prof. 

 H. L. Fairchild, who has edited this 

 latest edition and partly rewritten the 



volume, is the head of the department of 

 geology at the University of Rochester 

 and formerly Secretary of the Geolog- 

 ical Society of America. He is emi- 

 nently qualified to bring the work down 

 to date and to incorporate the latest 

 theories and conclusions, giving propor- 

 tionate weight to each new hypothesis 

 advanced since the last edition of the 

 work. One of the most important of 

 these is the theory of Prof. T. C. Cham- 

 berlin concerning the origin of the earth. 



