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rocks of the Rossland mining district, British Columbia," 
and another, in which E. H. Nutter was joint author, ap- 
peared in the Journal of Geology the same year (vol. lo, p. 
738) entitled "On some glaucophr.ne and associated schists 
in the Coast ranges of California." 
The 35TH Annual Meeting of the American Institute of 
Mining Engineers was held in Washington, May 2d to 5th, 
inclusive, with 125 registered members in attendance. The 
list of papers to be presented included 52 titles. Of papers 
actually read, those of Mr. A. C. Spencer on Magmatic Vein 
Waters in Alaska, and professor J. F. Kemp on the Copper 
Deposits of San Jose, Tamaulipas, ^lexico, were of greatest 
geological interest, though several very promising numbers 
were omitted through lack of time. 
Excursions were given down the Potomac to the gun- 
testing grounds at Indian Head, followed by a planked-shad 
dinner at Marshall Hall, and to the gold mines on the Poto- 
mac above Washington. 
The Univeksitv of Texas Mineral Survey is tempora- 
rily suspended, owing to the withdrawal of its support by 
the late legislature of the state. The ofifice is closed and 
p.ll work abruptly brought to an end. Two excellent re- 
ports are left unpublished, though partly printed, one of 
them accompanied by a detailed map of a portion of west 
Texas, bordering on the east side of the Rio Grande del 
Norte, including portions of Brewster, Presidio, Jeff. Davis 
and El Paso counties. This map must have cost the state 
considerable money, and the three geologists who executed 
the fieldwork (W. B. Phillips, B. F. Hill and J. A. Udden) 
a large amount of hard work. Its legend shows not only 
the formations : Post-Cretaceous, Late Upper Cretaceous, 
Upper Cretaceous, Lower Cretaceous, Jurassic, Carboni- 
ferous and Older Paleozoic, and Pre-Carboniferous, but 
also igneous dikes and sills, localities of quicksilver, Coal, 
Silver and lead. 'Intrusives, lavas and tuffs. Granite and 
syenyte. and Dioryte. 
This default by the legislature entails a serious loss 
upon the state and an injustice upon the geologists who 
did the work. We know nothing of the causes that pro- 
duced this unfortunate result, but we are reminded that 
republics are sometimes suicidal as well as ungrateful. 
