138 The Ainericari Geolor/isL Aumist, I89i 
Johns Hopkins University. Geo. B. Shattuck, Ph. D., 
recently fellow in geology, has been appointed assistant in ge- 
ology. Cleveland Abbe, Jr., has been appointed fellow in 
geology. 
Yale University. Dr. Chas. E. Beecher has been made 
full professor of historical geology in the University. Dr. L. V. 
FiRSSoN has been made full pi'ofessor of physical geology in 
the Scientitic School, lioth gentlemen have been put on the 
Governing Board of the Sheffield Scientific School. 
Appletons' Popular Science Monthly for June contains an 
account, accompanied by portraits of several geologists, of the 
coming meeting of the International Congress of Geologists 
at St. Petersl)urg. There is also a sketch of Richard Owen 
written by Pres. D. S. Jordan. 
The American Microscopical Society will hold its next 
meeting at Toledo, first week in August, guest of the Toledo 
Microscopical Society. The president is Dr. E. W. Claypole, 
Akron, Ohio, and the secretary is Dr. Wm. Krauss, Bult'alo, 
New York. 
The School of Mines of Pennsylvania State College is 
endeavoring trt supplement to some extent the State geological 
Survey reports by publishing papers on the economic products 
of the stale. Prof. T. C. Hopkins of that school j)repared last 
year a report on the brownstones of the state and this summer 
is at work on the clays of the west part of the state. They 
expect to continue the work on other economic subjects so far 
as the time and means permit. 
Geological Survey of West Virginia. A bill providing for 
a geological survey of this state was passed by the legislature 
at its last session. It puts the survey under a commission 
made up of the governor, treasurer, president of the West 
Virginia Universit}', president of the State Board of Agricul- 
ture, and the director of the West Virginia Agricultural Ex- 
periment Station, who serve without compensation, except ac- 
tual expenses. They appoint as superintendent of the survey 
a geologist of reputation, and such assistants as thej^ deem 
necessary. The objects of the survey are: an examination of 
the geological formation of the state, with special reference 
to economic products; an examination of the soils and their 
adaptability to particular crops; an examination of forests: 
a study of the physical features of the state with reference to 
their practical bearing upon occupations, industrial develop- 
ment and material prosperity of the people; the preparation 
of special geological and economic maps to illustrate the re- 
sources of the state, and the preparation of special reports 
on the geology and state resources. (FJiKjineering and Mining 
Journal.) 
