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be given by professor Grabau in general and in historical ge- 
ology. 
Professor C. L. Herrick, formerly of Chicago University. 
and later president of the State University, will, during the en- 
suing year, deliver a course of lectures on geological philosophy 
in the New Mexico School of Mines. Dr. Herrick is now 
largely interested in mining in New Mexico and is one of the 
doctrinaires who has been eminently successful in business 
affairs. 
Royal P. Jarvis, M.E., has been appointed professor of 
Mining in the New Mexico School of Mines. Mr. Jarvis has 
for the past three years been connected in the capacity of su- 
perintendent, with the Compania Metallurgica de Torreon in 
Mexico. Previously he had had wide experience in Colorado 
fields, principally as chief chemist and assayer of the Bimetal- 
lic Smelting Co., of Leadville ; and in Peru, South America. 
Professor Rufus M. Bagg has been appointed to fill the 
chair of mineralogy and petrography in the New Mexico 
School of Mines. Dr. Bagg is a graduate of Amherst College 
and Johns Hopkins University and is exceptionally well equip- 
ped for the post to which he has been called. Ke has had wide 
experience in practical mining work and was mineralogist in 
the department of mining and mineralogy for the Commissioner 
General of the United States to the Paris Exposition. 
Dr. Robert N. Hartman, who was asphixiated in the 
chemical laboratory of the Colorado School of Mines a few 
davs ago, was one of the faculty of that school who had re- 
signed hisl position there some weeks before. He had been ap- 
pointed only a week to the chair of chemistry in the New Mex- 
ico School of Mines when his death occurred. He had expect- 
ed to go to New Mexico in June. Professor Hartman was one 
of the ablest chemists engaged in mining work and the loss 
will be deeply felt at the New Mexico School of Mines. Doc- 
tor Hartman was a graduate of Pennsylvania College and of 
the Johns Hopkins University. 
Professor H. L. Fairchild, Associate Editor of the 
American' Geologist and Secretary of the Geological Society 
of America, sailed for Italy, June 27. He will spend the sum- 
mer in geological study in Europe, chiefly in Italy and Switz- 
erland. He will attend the International Geological Congress 
in Vienna the last of August and will participate in the Pleis- 
tocene excursion through the Tyrol, returning to America 
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