260 Tin AlH< rU'll II (ri ulo(//sf. OctolHT, 1891 
citJ miifi nf Europe, of which T havi' hcanl nothint; f<n' three years. 
Besides the two l^russians Mojsisovics came from Austria, and 
Kenevier from Switzerhuid. and nobody else of tlie committee. 
No one came from Kniiland, nor from France, npr Russia. Only 
Capellini joined me as an Italian friend. Nothing new worth noting 
was said or done, except that the announcement was made that 
very likefi/ the first sheet of the map, scale 1. 500,000, will be 
issued before the year is over." Giordano, director of the geo- 
logical survey of Italy, Aug. 18. 
Washington University, St. Louis, has just chosen a science- 
bred president, W. S. Chaplin, late professor of Engineering at 
Harvard University'. 
Preservation of the glacial grooves of Kelly's Island. 
Through the active interest and intercession of Prof. Gr. F. 
Wright, Mr. M. C. Younglove, president of the Kelly's Island 
Lime and Transport Company, has been empowered to deed to 
the Western Reserve Historical Society of Cleveland, a portion 
of the land on Kelh's island, "fifty feet wide and one hundred 
feet long,"' on which is preserved a part of the remarkable ice- 
grooving, which was visited by an excursion of the American 
Association for the Advancement of Science at the Cleveland 
meeting in 1S8S. These grooves are certainly the most remark- 
able ever discovered in this country, and they are to be preserved 
as an object lesson to future generations. Quarrying has 
alread}- proceeded nearly all around this specimen, and soon the 
monument preserved Avill be a monument indeed; the groove being 
left to cap a pedestal about thirty feet high, and conspicuous 
from eveiy side. About one-half the surface will Ije cleared of 
deliris, so as to show fifty feet of the length of the groove, while 
the other half will remain as it is, beneath its i)rotective covering 
of pel)bles. gravel, sand, and mud, which acted as the graving 
tools in the firm grasp of the ice. 
Originally a large area of this glaciated surface was exposed to 
sight. But in the progress of work upon the extensive quariy, 
the larger part of it has been removed. What is left, however, 
is ample for an object lesson. The portion of the groove pre- 
served is thirty-three feet across, and the depth of the cut in the 
rock is seventeen feet ])elow the line extending from rim to rim. 
Originally there was probal)ly here a small dej)ression formed l)y 
preglacial water erosion into which the ice crowded the material 
which became its graving tool, and so the rasping and polishing 
went on in increasing degree, until this enormous furrow is the 
result. The groove, however, is b}" no means simple, but pre- 
sents a series of corrugations merging into each other by beauti- 
ful curves. When exposed for a considerable length it will re- 
semble nothing else so much as a collection of prostrate Corinthian 
columns, laying side by side on a concave surface. 
