162 Miscellaneous Intelligence. 



Miscellaneous Scientific Intelligence. 



1. American Geological Society.— The American Geological 

 Society was formally organized at Ithaca, N. Y., on December 

 27th, 1888. The report of the Committee of Organization 

 showed that 98 Geologists belonging to the American Association 

 for the Advancement of Science had become Original Fellows ; 

 and that ballots received from 74 Fellows had elected the 17 

 candidates for admission to the Society. The names of 19 new 

 candidates were presented and were referred to the Executive 

 Council. 



A committee was appointed to prepare a permanent Constitu- 

 tion ; and another to take into consideration the whole matter of 

 publications; both committees to report at the next meeting of 

 the Society. 



The officers for 1889 are : President, James Hall; 1st Vice- 

 President, James D. Dana ; 2nd Vice-President, Alex. Winchell ; 

 Secretary, John J. Stevenson ; Treasurer, Henry S. Williams ; 

 Members of the Council, John S. Newberry, J. W. Powell, Chas. 

 H. Hitchcock. 



The Society adjourned to meet in Toronto on Wednesday, in 

 August, 1889, immediately after the adjournment of Section E 

 of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. 



We are indebted for the above notes to the Secretary of the 

 Society, Prof. J. J. Stevenson. 



The Society, thus auspiciously inaugurated, promises, through 

 the free interchange of views it will promote and in other 

 ways, to be of great service to American Geology. No bet- 

 ter choice for the position of President could have been made. 

 Professor Hall began his labors early in the thirties, and, ever 

 since, geology aud paleontology have had his undivided atten- 

 tion. His works — making more than a dozen great volumes with 

 over 700 plates of fossils — have laid the foundations of American 

 Geology, and have been a chief source of its progress, j. d. r>. 



2. Mhieral Resources of the United States; calendar year, 1887, 

 David T. Day, Chief of division of Mining Statistics and Technol- 

 ogy. 832 pp. 8vo. Washington, 1887 (U. S. Geol. Survey).— 

 This, the filth volume of the series, appears with most commenda- 

 ble promptness, and contains the usual large amount of valuable 

 information in regard to the development of the mineral interests 

 of the country during the calendar year 1887. The tabulated list 

 of useful minerals, arranged according to states and territories, 

 has been much improved by additions and general revision ; 

 this work has been in the hands of Albert Williams, Jr. 



3. Index der Krystallformen der Miner alien von Dr. Victor 

 Goldschmidt. Vol. II, Part 4, vol. Ill, Parts 2 and 3. — This con- 

 tinuation of Goldschmidt's important work on crystallography 

 (see xxxi, 475; xxxii, 485; xxxv, 501) embraces the species, 

 alphabetically arranged, from idocrase to kupfer vitriol, and rals- 

 tonite to syngenite. The same exhaustive thoroughness is shown 

 in these parts as in those before issued. 



