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suggest that they represent deposits eroded from a neighboring 

 part of the Archean plain under arid conditions. The fossils 

 include brachiopods, graptolites and corals. In strong contrast 

 to this undisturbed region, the northwest coast is occupied by a 

 well folded and greatly degraded and dissected mountain chain, 

 presumably of Devonian deformation, which is continued 

 obliquely across Robeson and Kennedy canals into Grinnell land. 

 Koch regards this mountain belt as a curved extension of the 

 Caledonian folding of northwestern Ireland, Scotland, western 

 Norway, and western Spitsbergen. w. m. d. 



2. Revue de Geologie et des Sciences connexes. — This Review, 

 of which the third year began with Januaiy, 1922, is a monthly 

 publication issued under the patronage of the Societe Geologique 

 de Belgique at Liege, Belgium. It deserves the support of all 

 geologists and mineralogists. Subscription for 1922 fifty francs ; 

 address the General Secretary, Laboratoire de Geologie, Univer- 

 site de Liege. 



3. First Pan-Pacific Commercial Conference. — This import- 

 ant conference has been called by the Pan-Pacific Union to meet 

 at Honolulu on October 25. A wide range of topics has been 

 announced for discussion, the sessions extending until October 31. 

 Following this date a week will be given to a series of attractive 

 excursions, the return to San Francisco being scheduled for 

 November 8. 



4. First Congress of Industrial Chemistry. — The first Chem- 

 ical Exposition, organized by the Societe de Chimie Industrielle, 

 will be opened at the National Conservatoire des Arts et Metiers 

 on October 7. The program already announced is a guarantee of 

 an important and valuable meeting. 



Obituary. 



Dr. Alexander Graham Bell, the inventor of the telephone, 

 died on August 2 in his seventy-sixth year, at his estate at Beinn 

 Bragh near Baddeck, Nova Scotia. Born in Scotland, he came to 

 this country at the age of twenty-two, and in 1876 his first tele- 

 phone patent was granted. What the telephone to-day, in its pres- 

 ent form, means to the activities of the civilized world is too well 

 known to need remark. The story of his active, useful life, with 

 its many signal achievements besides the one to which his name 

 has been so long attached, is picturesque and remarkable and will 

 always be of general interest. The many honors he received were 

 not more than his contributions to science and humanitv merited. 



