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discussed in so entertaining a manner that one is tempted to 

 hurry to the shore and verify the stated facts by first-hand 

 observation. w. r. c. 



4. New Meteoric Iron from Kentucky; G. P. Merrill (Com- 

 municated). — The National Museum has received from Professor 

 A. M. Miller of the University of Kentucky an heretofore unre- 

 corded 15 lb. mass of meteoric iron found while plowing in a 

 field near Glascow in that state. The iron (an octahedrite) is 

 much oxidized and evidently has lain long in the soil. There is 

 no record of its fall. This is the eleventh iron meteorite thus 

 far found within the state limits. 



Obituary. 



Dr. Kollin D. Salisbury, professor of geography and geol- 

 ogy in the University of Chicago and dean of the Ogden Grad- 

 uate School of Science, died on August 15 at the age of sixty-four 

 years. He was graduated at Beloit College in 1881 receiving the 

 degree of Ph.B., and later those of A.M. and LL.D. He was also 

 professor of geology at the same institution, from 1884 to 1891. 

 In 1891-92 he was professor in the University of Wisconsin, since 

 which time he has been connected with the University of Chicago.- 

 His chief interest was early in glacial geology and subsequently 

 more particularly in geography. In glaciology he was connected 

 with the Geological Survey of New Jersey and the United States 

 Geological Survey. A work in which he took an important part, 

 in association with Professor T. C. Chamberlin, was the Geology 

 published in three volumes (1904 and 1906). The first volume 

 (654 pp.) dealt with Geologic Processes and their results; the 

 second and third (692 and 624 pp.) with Earth History. 



In his special subjects Professor Salisbury stood in the front 

 as a thinker, investigator and teacher. His death robs the Uni- 

 versity of Chicago and the science of the country of a man of 

 rare gifts and attainments, and an especially effective teacher. 



Dr. G. H. Cox, recently geologist for the Josey Oil Company, 

 and for a number of years professor of geology at the Missouri 

 School of Mines, was killed in an automobile accident near 

 Bristow, Oklahoma, on August 20. 



