62 The American Geologist. January. 1805 
WIELAND, G. R. 
The proembryo of the Bennettitiae. (Am. Jour. Sci., vol. 18, 
pp. 445-448, Dec, 1904.) 
PERSONAL AND SCIENTIFIC NEWS. 
Dr. J. Mackintosh Bell instructor in geology at Har- 
vard University, a nephew of Dr. Robert Bell, acting director 
of the Goelogical Survey of Canada, has been appointed gov- 
ernment geologist of New Zealand, to succeed Sir James 
Hector. Science.) 
Dr. Henry Montgomery has been appointed curator of 
the museum at the University of Toronto, Ont. 
Dr. George P. Morrill was elected president of the 
Geological Society of Washington and Waldemar Lindgren 
and A. H. Brooks vice presidents, at the twelfth annual 
meeting of the society. 
Awards in the Department of Mines and Metallurgy, 
Louisiana Purchase Exposition, 1904 
Below is given a list of State and Government geological 
survey awards granted, based on their work and their ex- 
hibits at the St. Louis Exposition. This is the first time in 
the history of expositions that the work of the geological 
surveys received adequate recognition. The recognition re- 
ceived at this Exposition was doubtless due in part to the 
fact that on the Jury of Awards there were many able geolo- 
gists and mining engineers representing the United States 
and other countries, and partly to the fact that the Chief of 
the Department of Mines of the Exposition was himself a 
Fellow of the Geological Society of America and a State 
Geologist. 
Grand Prizes to the Following: 
United States Geological Survey, Washington. 
British Geological Survey. London. 
Prussian Geological Survey, Berlin. 
Austrian Geological Survey, Vienna. 
Swiss Geological Survey, Zurich. 
Portuguese Geological Survey, Lisbon. 
New York Paleontological Survey, Albany. 
Geological Survey of Japan. 
Geological Survev of Canada. 
