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been appointed by Gov. McGraw state geologisl of Wash- 
ington. 
Mk. Warren Upham is visiting in New Hampshire and 
Massachusetts, during a short absence from his work as sec- 
retary and librarian of the Minnesota Historical Society, St. 
Paid, Minn. 
A sketch of Henry A. Ward, the proprietor of Ward's Nat- 
ural Science Establishment of Rochester, N. Y., is given by 
William T. Hornaday in the Commercial Travellers' ffomt 
Magazine for February. 
Mk. Horace V. Winchell, of Minneapolis, who is well known 
through his papers on the iron ores of Minnesota, has consent- 
ed to act as a corresponding American editor of the Zeit- 
schrift fur praktische Geologie. 
U A Dictionary of the Names op Minerals, including their 
history and etymology," by Albert Huntington Chester, pro- 
fessor of mineralogy in Rutgers College, has recently been pub- 
lished by John Wiley and Sons. 
Prof. N. H. Winchell. state geologist of Minnesota and 
managing editor of this journal, has spent the last year in 
petrographical and mineralogical investigation and study in 
Paris. He is expected home soon after the first of May. 
Mr. Frank L. Nason, geologist and mining engineer, has 
gone to British Columbia to superintend the installation of 
the plant of the Columbia Hydraulic Mining < lompany of which 
he is the superintendent and engineer. {Eng.& Mining Jour.) 
Dr. Harry Fielding Reid has been appointed associate pro- 
fessor of geological physics in the Johns Hopkins University, 
and he will give advanced instruction during the coming year 
along that line. It is planned to develop laboratory experi- 
mentation along physical lines of geological research. 
The British Association for the Advancement of Science 
meets this year at Liverpool, Sept. 16th to 23rd, under the 
presidency of Sir Joseph Lister, president of the Royal 
Society- Mr. John Edward Marr is president of section C 
(geology). An attractive feature of the meeting will be a 
special scientific excursion to the Isle of Man. 
Mineral Products of the United States for 1895. The 
Engineering and Mining Journal of April 11th contains a 
table (from advance sheets of "The Mineral Industry," vol. iv) 
showing the production of each mineral substance of eco- 
nomic importance for 1895, as compared with that for 18 ( .M : 
there are also brief statements concerning the more important 
of these substances. 
The department of geology and geography of Harvard 
University lias placed on exhibition in Cambridge the Gard- 
ner collection of photographs, which consists of more than 
ii.OOO mounted photographs and about 1,500 stereopticon views 
