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A SPECIMEN OF THE WELL KNOWN FOSSIL ArthropkyCUS JiaV- 
lani, originally described from the Medina sandstone of New 
York, has lately been sent to Prof. J. W". Judd from the Gold 
Coast Colony in Western Africa, and placed by him in the 
collection of the British Museum of Natural History, at 
South Kensington, London. 
Prof. James Hall has received his commission as state 
geologist of New York, from governor Flower. Since 1883 
this appointment has been controlled by the regents of the 
university of the state of New York, but an enactment of the 
last legislature placed it upon its original footing, the vener- 
able state geologist having first received his commission from 
governor Marey, in 1N87. In retaliation for this encroachment 
upon their prerogatives the regents have removed Prof. Hall 
from the directorship of the New York State Museum of Nat- 
ural History, over which he has presided since 1866. Prof. 
J. M. Clarke, assistant palaeontologist, and Mr. F. J. H. Mer- 
rill, assistant geologist, were also removed at the same time, 
but Mr. Clarke was immediately reappointed by Prof. Hall. 
and Mr. Merrill was appointed by the Board to the position of 
assistant director of the custodial department of the museum. 
The first number of The Glacialists' Magazine, for August, 
comes to us from the publisher, F. H. Butler, 158, Broinptoir 
Road, London, S. W. It is a monthly magazine of glacial ge- 
ology, edited by Percy F. Kendall, Lecturer on Geology at the 
Yorkshire College, Leeds, England, assisted by Warren Up- 
ham, C. E. De Ranee, and J. Lomas. Annual subscription 
price, five shillings. 
Meetings of the Geological Society of America and the 
American Association for the Advancement of Science were 
held in Madison, Wis., Aug. 15-22. Thirty-seven fellows of 
the Geological Society were present, from its membership of 
about 220 : and the total attendance of the American Associa- 
tion was 290, from a membership slightly exceeding 2,000. Be- 
sides the Pleistocene papers of these meetings, which are 
cl-ewhere noticed in this number, the following papers were 
read before the Geological Society: 
On the study of fossil plants. Sir J. Wm. Dawson. 
On a new species of Dinichthys. — On a new Cladodus from the Cleve- 
land shale. — On a remarkable fossil jaw from the Cleveland shale. E. 
W. Claypole. 
Origin of the Pennsylvania anthracite. J. J. Stevenson. 
The Magnesian series of the northwestern states. C. W. Hall and 
F. W. Sardeson. 
On the succession in the Marquette iron district of Michigan. C. R. 
Van Hise. 
The Arkansas Coal Measures in their relation to the Pacific Carbo- 
niferous province. James Pekrin Smith. 
Dislocation in the strata of the lead and zinc region of Wisconsin and 
