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PERSONAL AND SCIENTIFIC NEWS. 
Mr. Frank Leverett, of the U. S. Geological Survey, and 
residing at Denmark, Iowa, is to spend the winter in Wash¬ 
ington, I). C. 
Mr. Robert T. Hill, during December and January, is to 
deliver a course of seven lectures on general geology at the 
Catholic University in Washington, D. C. 
Prof. William T. Blake, of New Haven, Conn., has 
accepted the professorship of geology and mining in the 
University of Arizona, at Tucson. He is also director of the 
Mining School in that University. 
Mr. Charles Schuchert has recently completed his work 
entitled, “A Synopsis • of American Fossil Brachiopoda, 
including Bibliography and Synonymy.” It will be pub¬ 
lished as one of the Bulletins of the U. S. National Museum. 
Sir J. Wm. Dawson’s lecture on “The chain of life traced 
backward to the Cambrian age,” being the opening lecture 
of a course on the “Beginnings of life” delivered in the Lowell 
Institute, Boston, is published in the December number of 
Self Culture. 
The California State Mining Bureau, under the direction 
of J. J. Crawford, state mineralogist, has just issued, as Bul¬ 
letin No. 7, a large statistical table “ Showing by counties the 
mineral production of California for the year 1894.” This 
table was compiled by Charles G. Yale, statistician. The 
total value of the mineral products was over $20,000,000, and 
nearly $14,000,000 of this amount is credited to gold. 
The National Geographic Society has issued its program 
of semi-monthly Friday lectures. Many of these lectures are 
to be illustrated by lantern slides, and among the lecturers 
are some of the best known geographers of the United States, 
Beginning with January, 1896, the National Geographic Mag¬ 
azine will be published on the first of every month, under the 
editorship of Mr. John Hyde (as managing editor), Gen. 
A. W. Greely, Prof. W J McGee and Miss Eliza Ruhamah 
Scidmore, While duly recording, from time to time, all the 
more notable achievements in the broad field of physical and 
economic geography, it will be the aim of the editors to make 
the magazine not so much a record of the progress , of geo¬ 
graphic science throughout the entire world as an exponent 
of the physical, political and commercial geography of the 
American continent. The subscription price is $2 per year, 
or 25 cents per copy. Subscriptions to the Magazine and 
applications for membership in the Society may be sent to 
the secretary, Mr. Everett Hayden, 1515 H Street N. W., 
Washington, D. C. 
