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the Erie canal. Visit the Fayetteville channel, Round and White 
lakes, the Mycena and adjacent channel northeast of Fayetteville, 
Salina shales, Manilas limestone, Helderberg limestone, Oriskany 
sandstone and Onondaga limestone outcrops. Field address by 
professor A. W. Grabau on "The Physical Characters and History 
of Some New York Formations." 
Free discussions oi all papers will he invited. Further partic- 
ulars regarding the meeting may be obtained by addressing pro- 
fessor T. C. Hopkins, University, Syracuse, New York, or the un- 
dersigned. 
Edmund Otis Hovey, 
Secretary Section E, 
Am. Assoc. Adv. Sci. 
American Museum of Natural History, 
New York, May 23, 1905. 
PERSONAL AND SCIENTIFIC NEWS. 
At Williams College, Mr. Hirdman L. Clelland has 
been appointed professor of geolog^y- 
Prof. A. P. Brigham of Colgate Univkrsity. Hamil- 
ton, JN. Y., expects to spend the summer in Europe, sailing 
June 14. His address will be: Care of Bowen, Shipley & 
Co., 123 Pall Mall, s. w., London. 
Dr. E. W. Hilgari), of the University of California has 
been given leave of absence for one year, and then will re- 
turn on two-thirds pay at 73 years of age. He is engaged 
on a work in agriculture, soils, etc. 
Geological Society OF WASHix\(rroN — At the meeting of 
May 10 the following named papers were read, viz. : Coal 
testing work at St. Louis, E. IV Parker; The Ocoee, C W. 
Hayes and David White; Fresh water marl of Alaska, W. 
H Ball. 
Dr. U. S. Graxt, will spend the summer in Alaska, in the 
employ of the United States Geological Survey, in one of 
the parties under the general charge of Dr. A. H. Brooks, 
leaving Evanston about June i. His headquarters and post- 
ofifice address will be Valdez, and his work will be in and 
about the copper mines of the region of Prince \\'illiams 
sound. 
Wir.LiAM B. Barukk, a young geologist and engineer of 
great promise, died at his native place. Alameda. California, 
of typhoid fever. May 4, 1905. He was a graduate of Stan- 
ford University, 1902. A v/ell considered and able paper of 
his appeared in the Amkric \n (-JKoLOfJisT a year ago (vol. },},, 
f- 3.^5^ '^'i the "Lam])rophyres and associated igneous 
