382 Scientific Intelligence. 



Pa., 1915 (Coxe Publication Fund). — This publication of the 

 Wyoming Society, in addition to details in regard to officers, 

 committees, etc., contains five articles, of which two are particu- 

 larly worthy of note. The first is by Professor J. F. Kemp on 

 the " Buried River Channels of the Northeastern States." This 

 subject as applied to the Hudson River valley has already been 

 developed by the same author and is presented in articles pub- 

 lished in this Journal (Oct. 1908, pp. 301-323; July, 1912, pp. 

 1-12). In the present papei', however, the scope has been widened 

 so as to bring together the observed facts for a number of other 

 valleys, as the Wyoming valley in Pennsylvania, the Walkill 

 valley in New Jersey, the valleys of Seneca and Cayuga lakes in 

 Now York, and those of the Nashua, Merrimac and Charles rivers 

 in Massachusetts. The submarine channels, which have been 

 described by a number of different authors, are also included in 

 the discussion and the conclusion drawn that these buried chan- 

 nels, of the Pliocene or closing Tertiary, indicate a land-elevation 

 of 300 to 400 feet. 



A second paper, covering nearly two hundred pages, gives the 

 " Reminiscences of Hon. Charles Miner, 1780-1865." Mr. Miner, 

 who has been called the " Pennsylvania pioneer," was the author 

 of the well-known History of Wyoming, in 1845 ; the present 

 paper was prepared by the late Dr. C. F. Richardson, whose 

 widow is Mr. Miner's granddaughter. Although the subject of 

 this memoir does not bring it within the scope of this Journal, it 

 may be remarked that it presents a most interesting account of a 

 region which has long been famous in the history of the country. 

 A special edition of 300 copies of these memoirs has been printed 

 and donated to the Society by Mrs. Richardson ; its sale to 

 libraries should do much to establish the proposed " Charles 

 Miner Fund " for the general uses of the Society. 



Obituary. 



Sir Clrments Robert Markham died at his home in London 

 on January 30 in his eighty-sixth year. He took part in the 

 Franklin Search Expedition to the Arctic in 1850-51, and later 

 made important contributions to geography both in the field and 

 as one of the Secretaries, and afterward President, of the Royal 

 Geographical Society. 



Sir William Turner, vice-chancellor and principal of the 

 University of Edinburgh, died on February 15 in his eighty- 

 fourth year. He was distinguished as an anatomist besides his 

 life-long services in the cause of the higher education. 



Dr. Charles Willard Hates, chief geologist of the U. S. 

 Geological Survey from 1902-1911, died at Washington on 

 Februaiy 9 in his fifty-seventh year. 



Professor Ivan Petrovitch Pavlov, the distinguished Rus- 

 sian physiologist, died at Petrograd early in February at the age 

 of sixty-five years. 



Dr. P. Chappuis, well known for his work in gas thermometry, 

 died at Basle, February 15. 



