4 oo The American Geologist. December, 190a. 
PERSONAL AND SCIENTIFIC NEWS. 
Some geologists use the term "glacial ice." It is ap- 
parently as tautological as to use the term black blackbird. 
Mr. John Hays Hammond has given $50,000 to the Shef- 
field Scientific school of Yale University for* a laboratory of 
mining. 
The late American Mining Congress at Deadwood 
adjourned to meet in 1904 at Portland, Oregon. The pres- 
ident is J. H. Richards of Boise, Idaho, and the secretary is 
Irwin Mahon, of Carlisle, Pa. 
The Bradley Geological Field station, at Graydon 
Springs, Missouri, was opened under the auspices of the 
Drury College Scientific Association, Oct. 19. Addresses were 
given by Dr. E. R. Buckley, Dr. William Trelease, Dr. E. M. 
Shepard, and bv the president of Drury college, Dr. Homer 
T. Fuller. 
It is proposed by the chief of mines and metallurgy 
of the St. Louis Exposition that in the exhibits of the various 
states not only shall the ores and their values be fully repre- 
sented by characteristic specimens, but that they shall be accom- 
panied by samples of the country rock. Thus the mining ex- 
perts will be able to compare the surroundings of the great 
mines of one state with those of characteristic mines of other 
states. 
Dr. E. O. Hovey gave a lecture before the New York 
Academy of Sciences on the eruptions of Mont Pelee in 1902 
and 1903. He sketched the principal events in the volcanic 
history of the island during the past year and a half. He de- 
scribed the phenomena of the eruptions, the mud-torrents and 
mud-flows, the attendant and subsequent aqueous erosion on 
the slopes of the mountain, the rise and vicissitudes of the 
new cone of eruption and its wonderful spine or obelisk. The 
lecture was illustrated with about ninety-five lantern slides from 
negatives taken by the author on the two expeditions which he 
has made to Martinique for the American Museum of Natural 
History since the eruptions began. 
Geological Society of America. The next meeting will 
be held at St. Louis, Mo., beginning Dec. 30. The American 
Association for the Advancement of Science meets at the same 
place Dec. 28. The Cordilleran section of the Society will 
meet Jan. 1, 1904, at the rooms of the California Academy of 
Sciences, San Francisco. The president of the Society is S. F. 
Emmons, of Washington, and of Section E of the Association, 
professor I. C. Russell of Ann Arbor. 
