EDWARD ORTON, LL. D. 



Less than 90 da3 r s ago the sessions of the American Associa- 

 tion for the Advancement of Science in Columhus were presided 

 over by the distinguished ex-president of the Ohio State Uni- 

 versity, Dr Edward Orton. On October 16, w T ith only a few 

 hours' warning, Dr Orton passed awa}^. The place which he had 

 won in the scientific world will be hard to fill. Dr Orton grad- 

 uated from Hamilton College in 1848. Since 1869 he has been 

 state geologist of Ohio, and since 1873 professor of geology and 

 for some years president of the Ohio State University. Many 

 volumes and reports on. the geology of Ohio and the natural-gas 

 supply of the United States are the evidence of his original in- 

 vestigations. In 1897 he was president of the Geological Society 

 of America. Science in its report of the Columbus meeting has 

 truly described Dr Orton as a man " honored and beloved of all." 



NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY 



Owing to the press of his official duties as the Hydrographer 

 of the U. S. Geological Survey, Mr F. H. Newell has been com- 

 pelled to resign the secretaryship of the National Geographic 

 Society, an office which he has so ably and zealously filled dur- 

 ing the past two years. As an evidence of his efficient manage- 

 ment, dating from December, 1897, it may be stated that the 

 membership of the Society has increased from 1,300 to more 

 than 2,200, and has received an impetus that promises in the 

 near future to greatly enlarge that number. 



Frederick Haynes Newell was born in Bradford, Pennsylvania, 

 March 5, 1862. After a course at the common schools of Need- 

 ham, Massachusetts, he entered the Massachusetts Institute of 

 Technology at Boston, where he graduated with high honors as 

 a mining engineer and geologist in 1885. Several years were 

 passed in miscellaneous engineering in Penns3Tvania, Virginia, 

 and various sections of the United States. In 1888 he was ap- 

 pointed Hydrographer of the U.S. Geological Survey, a depart- 

 ment then formed for the first time. Since then Mr Newell has 

 planned and organized the s} r stematic measurement of the flow 

 and capacity of many rivers in arid regions of the West, his ob- 

 ject being to ascertain the resources of water available for the 



