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GoM Medals to the Following: 
Pennsylvania Geological Survey, Harrisburg. 
N. H. Winchell, Minneapolis, Minn. 
Geological Survey Publications, Minnesota. 
Ohio Geological Survey, Columbus. 
Geological Survey of New South Wales, Sydney, Ont. 
Geological Survey of Alabama, University, Ala. 
California State Mining Bureau, San Francisco, Cal. 
New York State ]\Iuseum, Albany. (In Geology). 
Geological Survey of New Jersey, Trenton, N. J. 
Maryland Geological Survey, Baltimore, Md. 
Geological Survey of Missouri, Rolla, Mo. 
Geological Survey of West Virginia, Morgantown, West 
Geological Survey of Indiana, Indianapolis. 
Geological Survey of Georgia, Atlanta, Ga. 
Iowa Geological Survey, Des Moines, Iowa. 
Wisconsin Geological Survey, Madison, Wis. 
John C. Branner, Stanford, Cal. 
Publications of the Arkansas Geological Survey. 
Kentucky Geological Survey, Frankfort. 
Michigan Geological Survey, Lansing, Mich. 
The jeographic Societv of Chicago held a meeting on 
December loth, at which the following brief addresses were 
given : Eliot Blackwelder, "Tai Shan — the Holy Mountain 
of Shantung ;" W. W. Atwood, "An Ascent of the Enchanted 
Mesa;" R. E. Blount, "A Field Trip in the Harz ;" Zonia 
Baber, "The Transcontinental Trip of the Eighth Interna- 
tional Geographic Congress ;" Mabel Sykes, "A Trip to Van- 
-couver." 
United States Geological ISurvey. 
Among the recently issued publications of the Survey 
are the following: 
"The petrography and geology of the igneous rocks of 
tlie Highwood mountains, Montana," by L. V. Pirsson ; Bul- 
letin No. 237. 
"The water powers of Texas," by T. C. Taylor ; Water 
Supply and Irrigation Paper No. 105. 
"The Delavan lobe of the lake Michigan' glacier of the 
Wisconsin stage of glaciation and associated phenomena," 
by W. C. Alden ; Professional Paper No. 34. 
"The Latrobe (Pa.) Folio," by M. R. Campbell ; Geologic 
Folio No. no. 
"A general reconnaissance across the Cascade range 
near the forty-ninth parallel," by G. O. Smith and F. C. Cal- 
Tcins; Bulletin No. 235. 
