In I Tin American Geologist. December, 1893 
PERSONAL AND SCIENTIFIC NEWS. 
The annual scientific meeting of the National A.cad- 
i:.\n in Sciences was held in the senate chamber al Albany, 
N. V.. Nov. 7-1). Prof. 0. C. Marsh presiding. The following 
papers were read : 
American Paheo/.oic Cockroaches iby title I, Samuel II. Scudder. 
Additional Researches on the Motion of the Earth's Pole, Beth C. 
< !h \ni>i.i:r. 
Biographical Memoir of A. H. Worthen (by title), C. A. White. 
Biographical Memoir of W. P. Trowbridge (by title), C B. Comstook. 
The Geological Map of the State of New York, Jam is Hall. 
On a new form of Telescopic Objective, as applied to the twelve-inch 
Equatorial of the Dudley Observatory, Charles S. Hastings. 
On the Structure and Development of Trilobites Iby request), 
Charles E. Beecher. 
Double Stars, Asaph Hall. 
Latitude Determinations at the Sayre Observatory (by title and re- 
quest), Charles L. Doolittle. 
Insect Voices iby request), Joseph A. Lintner. 
Edible and Poisonous Fungi (by request), Charles H. Peck. 
A New Process of Printing in Color, Edward S. Morse. 
On Reaction. Times and the Velocity of the Nervous Impulse (by 
title and request). J. MoKeen Cattell and Charles S. Dollev. 
The Palaeontology of the State of New York; the present condition 
of the work, James Hall. 
Certain Histological Relations Between the Subalpine Plants of the 
White Hills and of the Labrador Coast, Georue Lincoln Goodalk. 
The interest of tlie meeting centered mainly in the dedi- 
cation of the new building and equipment of the Dudley 
Observatory in Albany, and the tenor of the discussions was 
therefore largely astronomical. Prof. James Hall gave an 
account of the progress made during the seasons of 1892-8 
upon the new geological map of New York, and of the work 
accomplished in various lines of paheontological research. 
on brachiopoda, sponges, and corals. Prof.' Beecher's paper 
added new determinations in regard to the anatomy of the 
trilobites. 
Miss Makia Ogilvieis a young English woman whoa few 
years a'go at the Ladies' college in Edinburgh won a $1,500 
prize, a gold medal, and a $500 scholarship. Then she went 
to London university, took the zoology medal and captured a 
few other prizes, together with the degree of bachelor of sci- 
ence. She studied in Munich university, and did a great deal 
of original geological exploration in South Tyrol. The re- 
sults of this work have been embodied in a paper published 
by the Geological Society. The difficulties were not slight. 
Every summit had to be scaled and the various strata traced. 
Some of the summits ranged from 8,000 to 9,000 feet in hight. 
