60 The American Geologist. Jllly 1; " !; 
souri. In the Trans. St. Louis Ac. Sc, Vol. 3, Sept., 1874. there are 
three pages treating of bitumen in Missouri. In "Reports and 
Awards of Group I," International Exhibition, Philadelphia, 1876, pages 
9 and 10 are devoted to the discussion of oil and bituminous rock in 
Missouri. The Kansas City Review of Science and Industry, Vol. 1, 
for 1877, on pages 216 and 217, contain notices of the occurrence of oil 
and bitumen in Missouri. 
Bitumen and bituminous rock have been found in ten counties in 
Missouri, from Caldwell on the north to Newton county in the south, 
and in a belt of from twenty-five to forty miles in width in Missouri, 
and a vertical geological range of over 600 feet more or less. In this 
district five wells over 700 feet in depth have been bored for oil reveal- 
ing rock highly saturated with bitumen (See Geol. Reports for 1872 and 
for 1873-74). Considerable gas was met with in some of these wells, 
and in some a strong brine. This oil zone extends westward into Kan- 
sas and southwardly into Indian Territory and beyond. 
To say the least, that report was a careless piece of work. 
Columbia, Missouri, May 18, 1903. 
G. C. BROADHEAD. 
PERSONAL AND SCIENTIFIC NEWS. 
Mr. Fred B. Moffet has been appointed geologist by the 
U. S. G. S. to go with a party of topographers to Cape Nome, 
Alaska. 
Mr. H. W. Shimer, of Columbia, will go to the In- 
stitute of Technology as instructor in Palaeontology and strati- 
graphic Geology. 
Mr. Gay M. Hamilton of the University of Nebraska 
has been elected instructor in geology in the New Mexico 
School of Mines. 
Mr. D. W. Johxsox, Fellow ix Geology at Columbia 
University has been appointed instructor in Geology at the In- 
stitute of Technology, Boston. 
Leox* Domixiax, B.A., graduate student in the Mining 
School of the University of Liege, Belgium, has been appoint- 
ed instructor in the New Mexico School of Mines. 
Durixg the coming yicar. at the New Mexico School of 
Mines, an extended course of lectures on Mining Law will be 
given by the Hon. Daniel H. McMillan, Judge of the United 
States District Court. 
The Eastern Branch of the Field Geology of Colum- 
bia University will be held this war at Larabee Point, Lake 
Champlain. N. Y.. during the first week in June. The six 
weeks' Summer School in Geology begins July 6. Courses will 
