202 The Ar)icrican Geologist. March, \m^ 
The Bricevillc and Wartburg folios. Arthur Keith. 
Notes on the Sierra Madre near Monterey, Mexico. R. T. Hill and 
Bailey Willis. 
Some stratigraphir (lianges in the New River coal fields. W. C. 
Mendenhall. 
At the nicctiiii.^" of I'\'b. 23rd the following papers were 
presented: 
Tertiary of South Dakota and Nebraska. N. H. Darton. 
The origin of the Yosemite valley, California. H. W. Turner. 
The Science Series is the title of a new series of scien- 
tific books to be issued by G. P. Putnam's Sons. The series 
is to be edited b}' Prof. J. McKeen Catteli, of Columbia Uni- 
versity, with the co-operation of Frank Evers Beddard, F. R. 
S. The following geological volumes are expected among 
the earlier ones to be issued: 
Earth structure. James Geikie. 
\'olcanoes. T. (j. Barney. 
Earthquakes. C. E. Dutton. 
Physiography: The forms of the land. W. M. Davis. 
Mr. J. Edward Spurr, who has been spending several 
months in geological study in Germany and more recently 
in Paris, sailed for New York the last week in F'ebruary. 
Pearly in the spring he will go to Alaska, under the direction 
of the United States Geological Surve\-. to in\'estigate the 
geolog}' and ore deposits of the Klondike region. 
Mr. a. D. Roe, of Minneapolis, recording secretarx' 
of the Minnesota Academy of Natural .Sciences, has been 
placed in charge of the scientific collections of the Acade- 
my and is at present engaged in rearranging the important 
paleontological and mineralogical collections. He has 
placed on exhibition in the museum of the Academ\- a part 
of his private mineral collection. 
Prof. John Milne has received grant No. 81 from the 
"Elizabeth Thompson .Science Fund." The amount of the 
grant is $250 and it is given to aid in a seismic sur\ey ot the 
world. 
