Al)OUt one hundred members w ere present. 
Prof. J. D. Dana was elected president; I'rots. 
J. S. Newberry and Alexander Winchell 
vice-presidents and Profs. Stevenson and 
Williams were re-elected secretary and treas- 
urer, while Profs. Powell, Dawson and C. 
II. Hitchcock were made executive council. 
A .fio, ooo publication fund was decided up- 
on and $l.ooo appropriated as a nucleus. 
After the historical address by Prof. Hall, 
which reviewed the important labors of the 
pioneer Geologists for the past one hundred 
years, interesting; papers were presented by 
Profs. Chamberlain, Shaler, Newberry, Em- 
mons, Orton, McGee, Williams, Winchell, 
Lawson, Russell, McConnell, Tyrrell, Bick- 
more, C. D. White, Dr. J. S. Diller and 
others. The sessions are considered to have 
been most successful. The Society adjourned 
to meet at Indianapolis during the sessions 
of the American Association for the Advance- 
ment of Science. 
The Kansas City Academy of Sciences 
elected officers for the ensuing year, as fol- 
lows: president. Prof. Edwin Walters; vice- 
president, Mr. E. Butts; i-ecording secretary, 
R. B. Trouslot; corresponding secretary, 
Mr. David H. Todd; treasurer, Mr. Edward 
T. Keini; librarian, Mr. Frederick Mcintosh; 
curator, Mr. Sidney Hare. Executive com- 
mittee: Edward T. Keim, Dr. Oscar Braeck- 
lein. Dr. li. Wood Brown, Dr. JosephSharp 
and Charles Dawson. Publication commit- 
tee: R. B. Trouslot, Edward T. Keim and 
Charles Dawson. Programme for next 
meeting, Feb. ll : Dakota Tin Deposits, 
Frederick Mcintosh; Teeth and Brain, Dr. 
R. Wood Brown; General Relation of Clim- 
ate to the White Race, Dr. Joseph Sharp. 
Total Eclipse of the Sun. 
A total eclipse of the suii occurretl 
December 23, 1889. Africa, South Amer- 
ica and some of the South Atlantic Is. 
lands, notably Trinidad, were favored. 
The eclipse was total in the early part 
of the day in South America and in the 
afternoon visable in Africa. 
Prof. David T. Todd, of Amherst 
College, had charge of a party for which 
Congress appropriated 5pii,000. 'J'hey 
were located near the Congo Kiver. 
Seventy pictures were secured before 
and a number after totality. 
It is reported that no perceptible dark- 
ening occured until totality when at 
once a peculiar semi-obscurity covered 
the entire landscape. 
The Lick observatory party under the 
direction of Profs. Burnham and Schoe- 
berle, located in French Guiana, on the 
northeast coast of South America. Here 
the period of totality was one minute 
and forty seven seconds, while at the Af- 
rican station it lasted three minutes and 
fifteen seconds. 
New Books Aiinouiiceil. 
All books reviewed or announced in these 
columns can be obtained ftoni the Editor of 
this jjaper. 
The Harper Brothers announce publi- 
cation of ' The Stoiy of Emin"s Eescue, 
as told in Stanley's Letters." It is copy- 
righted in the United States by Mr. 
Stanley, edited by J. Scott Keltie, Libra- 
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The volume is accompanied by a map 
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sketch of Mr. Stanley's work and por- 
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