130 The American Geologist. August, i898 
Work of the General Government, by Henry Gannett; and 
on the Geologic Atlas of the United States, by W. J. McGee. 
Extensive Iron Ore Deposits in Japan, have been 
discussed in ''Staid Jind Eisen,^' by Dr. Th. Mukai. They are 
chiefl}' magnetite and hematite; the amount now known is 
estimated at seventy million tons, and new deposits are 
continualh' being discovered. They are destined to have an 
important bearing on the industrial development of Japan. 
State Geologist Blatchley, of Indiana, in his last re- 
port calls direct attention again to the decrease in the nat- 
ural gas supply. The productive area is about half what it 
was original!}-. The average rock pressure has fallen from 
325 pounds to less than 200 pounds, and salt water is con- 
stanth' encroaching toward the centre of the field. 
The American Association for the Advancement 
OF Science will hold its 50th meeting at Boston beginning 
August 22d. The president of the meeting is Prof. F. W. 
Putnam, for many years the efficient secretary of the Associ- 
ation. The retiring president is Prof. Wolcott Gibbs. The 
headquarters of the Association will be at the Massachusetts 
Institute of Technolog)'. The section of Geography and 
Geology will be presided over by Prof. H. L. Fairchild, of 
Rochester, N, Y., and his address will be on "Glacial Geol- 
og}' in America." Its secretar\' is Mr. -Warren Upham of 
St.' Paul. 
This meeting marks an epoch in the history of the Asso- 
ciation and special preparation has been made to enhance 
the interest and value of the proceedings. Many attractions 
of scientific and social character center in Boston and will 
conspire with the unusual programs to cause a large 
attendance. 
Marvard University. The departments of Geology 
and Geograph}', and of Mineralog\' and Petrolog)-, have a 
working facult)- of fourteen instructors and professors ac- 
cording to a late circular. The organization of these de- 
partments, under professors Shaler and Wolff, and their 
scope of instruction, whether within the laborator\- or in 
the field, place the institution in these departments in the 
fore front in America. 
Mr. R. a. Daly, after three }'ears travel and study in 
Europe, has been appointed instructor in ph\-siograph\- in 
Harvard Universit)', associated with Prof. W. M. Davis. 
Dr. George Baur, of the University of Chicago, late 
of Clark University, Worcester, Mass., one of the most emi- 
nent and active of the younger paleontologists of America, 
recently died, having been absent from his work and seeking 
restoration of health during the past year. A brief sketch 
is in Science of Jul)' 15, by O. P. Ha}-. 
