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edly eruptive, and ramifying into dikes and veins which pierce the 
surrounding terranes. 
The tract under consideration where we observe the remarkable con- 
nection between a iragmental rock, a granite conglomerate and a true 
granite, must lead us to reflect, he says, on the origin of plutonic rocks 
in general. He holds that in some cases, originally sedimentary rocks 
may be regionally metamorphosed, and at last protruded as true 
eruptives. A. Winchell. 
Ann Arbor, Oct. 10, 1889. 
PERSONAL AND SCIENTIFIC NEWS. 
Prof. F. H. Snow has been appointed acting president of 
Kansas State University. Thus four of the western States have 
for presidents of their universities men whose professional 
training and labor had been scientific. Indiana has D. S. Jor- 
dan, an ichthyologist, Wisconsin has T. C. Chamberlin, a geol- 
ogist, Iowa has C. A. Schaeffer, a chemist, and Kansas now 
has F. H. Snow, a geologist. 
The University of Texas, School of Geology, Austin, 
established and conducted by Prof Robert T. Hill, exhibits 
a commendable appreciation of the sphere that such an organ- 
ization should occupy, and, considering the great difficulties 
that environ such an enterprise in the newer institutions of 
learning, its activity and success are phenomenal. Its publi- 
cations are of great value to Texas and to geology in general, 
and they manifest an energy and scientific skill that would be 
creditable to other and older institutions. It would be well 
if all state universities should maintain some similar agency 
for the publication of important scientific research. Particu- 
larly in western institutions are such auxiliaries needed. They 
have the material and the men to organize scientific bureaus, 
and they are beginning to realize the loss they are suffering 
by depending on the older institutions of the eastern States 
and on other means of publication. 
The late meeting (for October) of the Minnesota Acad- 
emy of Natural Sciences was the first held in the new building 
erected by the city of Minneapolis, known as the "City Library.'' 
The entire second floor of this building is to be occupied by 
the Academy. There was a large attendance. Papers were read 
by Prof. N. H. Winchell on The so-called Huronian rocks in 
the vicinity of Sudhury, Canada ; by Mr. H. V. Winchell on 
The iron-hearing formations of Minnesota ; by Prof. Chaney,^ 
of Northfield, on Some remarkable forms supposed to he of 
Cryptozoon in the Shakopee limesto7ie at Northfield; and by 
Mr. Warren Upham on A recent visit to Itasca lake. 
