lJ>t3 TIk Ann man GeohHjlst. September, IWtl' 
The society is now in the third year of its existence and numbers more 
than '^00 members scattered over the country from the Atlantic to the 
Pacific. Two volumes of transactions have been published enil)odying 
the results of researches in almost every field of geology. They may be 
obtained from the secretary. Prof. H. S. Fairchild, of Rochester, N. Y., 
to whom also should be addressed all applications for membership. 
A SPECIAL PARTY will stiulv the Pleistocene of the southern 
coastal plain from Alaljama to Mexico, leavinir Washintjton im- 
mediately after the adjournment of the International Congress of 
Geologists. The party emln-aces the following: AV. J. McGee,. 
E. \V. Hilgard. Eugene Smith, J. A. Holmes, Lester F. Ward 
and Robert T. Hill. Subsequently the relations of the ''Trinity' 
of Texas, and the '• Potomac" of Virginia, will Ije investigated 
in the field In- Messrs. "Ward and Hill. 
Ok the nixetv foreign delegates to the International Con- 
gress of Geologists present at the "Washington session, sixty- 
three participated in the western excursic^u to the Yellowstone 
Park and the Rocky mountains. 
At the Meeting of the Committee of Organization of the 
National Association of Government Geologists, Saturday even 
ins, August 29. the secretarv, 3Ir. Arthur "Winslow, was instructed 
to draft a Constitution and By-Laws, to be submitted to the com- 
mittee at a meeting to be called in connection with the Annual 
meeting of the Geological Society in Decemlier next. 
The secretary was further requested to notify all State Geolo- 
gists of this movement towards organization, and to invite them 
to be present at the next meeting. 
Prof. O. C. Marsh has crossed the Rocky Mountains 
twenty-seven times, in quest of fossil vertebrate skeletons, first 
in 1868, and remarked that he hopes to cross them as many times 
more. 
Prof. E. H. Barbour. Grinnell, Ioava. has accepted the pro- 
fessorship of geology in the State University of Nebraska, at 
Lincoln. 
Dr. Theo. B. Comstock. of the Texas Geological Survey, 
has been appointed director of the School of Mines, Tucson, Ari- 
zona. 
The basin of Itasc.\ lake, which fiows northward and is en- 
closed on all other sides by morainic accumulations, was formerly 
filled by a lake of much larger dimensions. Mr. J. V. Broweiv 
in his official report on the new Itasca park, established by the 
last session of the Minnesota Legislature, descriljes the valle}', 
and i)roposes for the extinct lake, which doubtless subsided to 
the dimensions of the present lake on the withdrawal of the ice 
of the Glacial epoch from the region, the name --lake Upham," 
in recognition of the efficient work of Mr. Upham on the glacial 
geology of the state. 
