3(54 The American Geologist. May, isos 
PERSONAL AND SCIENTIFIC NEWS. 
The Missouri Geological Survey has just passed through the 
hands of the 37th general assembly, with a considerably' reduced 
appropriation. Twenty thousand dollars were allotted for the 
maintenance of the survey during the next two years, including 
printing. The cause of the reduction was a recent diminution in 
the rate of taxation. The non-partizan character of the organiza- 
tion of the survey also militated against it in the hands of the 
dominant party. 
The Minnesota GtEological Survey received a cash appropria- 
tion of ten thousand dollai's at the hands of the late legislature. 
This is to be used exclusive of printing, and, united with the pro- 
ceeds of the Salt Spring fund, will sustain the survej' during the 
next two years. 
There has been an order issued by the Michigan Board of 
Geological Surve}' to remove the headquarters from Houghton to 
Lansing. All the employes of the surve}* were dismissed May 1st. 
There is a strong sentiment against the union of the Survey with 
the Mining School, in the directorship, and that seems to be the 
cause of the action taken. The citizens of the northern peninsula, 
however, insist on retaining the Surve}' headquarters at Houghton, 
near the school but not directly connected with it. 
The (Iovernor of (Ieorgia has appointed W. S.Yates, of the 
Smithsonian Institution, Washington, State (Jeologist of Georgia, in 
place of Dr. J. W.Spencer. 
Apatite in Norbotten, Norway. — In the "Neues Jahrbuch 
fiir Mineralogie, " 1893, page 38, G. Loesstrand gives the result 
of his observations on the occurrence of apatite in this district. 
After mentioning the researches of Br(">gger on the scapolitic 
gabbros of Norway', and the fact that they are \Qxy rich in apatite, 
Loesstrand goes on to say that although the olivine-gabbro is rich- 
est in apatite, yet its occurrence seems to be restricted to 
districts where the original formation contained a good deal of 
apatite, and that this mineral did not seem to be so much in the 
gabbro itself as where it came in contact with hornblende slates. 
The gabbro contained most apatite where hornblende slates appeared 
in intimate association with it. When the gabbro was permeated 
with stringers of pegmatite, apatite was veiy likely present, and 
when these pegmatite lodes contained a good deal of plagioclase, 
the chances of finding apatite were still further increased. As 
usual accompaniments of the apatite he mentions titanium mine- 
rals, hornblende, enstatite, mica, scapolite, epidote, and tourma- 
line. One of the lodes traversing the hornblende slates, gneiss 
and gabbro carries rose-red quartz and salite at one point, and 
farther away hornblende, plagioclase, quartz and tourmaline, and 
what is of special interest, crystals of scapolite 7 in. long and 
1.18 in. thick. 
