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clearly in lettered colors the systems and groups of the Empire. It is 
from the press of A. Illyne, St. Petersburg. 
The volume consifts of 36 separate essays on the geology of the regions 
visited by the members, both before and after the meeting. They are 
fully illustrated with outline and colored maps, sections, tables, and re- 
productions of photographic views. It would be invidious to select from 
material of so valuable a nature, but the names of those who have 
borne the brunt of the work in arranging for the meeting of course fig- 
ure largely in the list. 
Every essay is separate and .separately paged and by an excellent plan 
all are held firmly together, by a spring cover which can be loosened in 
a moment and any one of the whole taken out for use. In this way the 
members can from day to day select the essays needed without burden- 
ing themselves with the whole volume, which weighs several pounds. 
Five of the essays are in German and all the rest in French, the offic- 
ial language of the Congress. The typography and execution are excel- 
lent, distinct and sharp, the illusti-ations well done and the misprints ex- 
ceedingly rare. It is perhaps superfluous or even impertinent to con- 
gratulate the Russian committee on the excellence of the "guide" since 
they have evidently set out with the intention that it should be as good 
as it could be made' and for this end the intellectual part of the work 
has been ably supported by the mechanical. But we may certainly be 
allowed again to express our thanks to our Russian brethren in geolo- 
gy for the unstinted labor and care that they have expended on all 
parts of this monumental guide to their European dominion and to ex- 
press the hope that they will derive some compensation from the pleas- 
ure and profit which they have given both to those of their foreign 
friends who are with them in person and to those also who would be 
there if they could. E. W. Claypole. 
PERSONAL AND SCIENTIFIC NEWS. 
Prof. C. L. Herrick, late one of the editors of the Amer- 
ican Geologist, has been elected president of the University 
of New Mexico, at Albuquerque. 
Dr. C. H. Gordon, of the geological department of the Uni- 
versity of Chicago, is about to sail for Europe where he will 
spend six or eight months in study and travel. Mail addres- 
sed to Valley Center, Michigan, will reach him promptly. 
Mu. Warren Upham returned to America, Aug. 28th, b\^ 
the steamer St. Louis. With his wife he has visited Great 
Britain, Scandinavia, Denmark, Hamburg, Berlin, the Alps, 
and Paris. Besides a review of some features of Pleistocene 
geology he has made special study of the organization and 
administration of some of the great public libraries. 
