70 The American Geologist. January, 1892 
that he had killed himself by the administration of chloroform 
during temporary insanity. Dr. Carpenter had been Science- 
master at Eton since 1877. The Zimes gives the following ac- 
count of his scientific work: ‘‘He was a member of the scientific 
staff of the deep-sea-exploring expeditions of the ‘ Lightning’ 
(1868) and the ‘Porcupine’ (69 and ’70) and in 1875 he was 
appointed assistant naturalist to the ‘ Valorous’ which accompa- 
nied the Arctic expedition of Sir G. Nares to Disco I., and he spent 
the summer in sounding and dredging in Davis strait and the N. 
Atlantic. Dr. Carpenter devoted himself exclusively since 1875 
to studying the morphology of the Echinodermata, especially the 
crinoids. In 1883 he received the Lyell medal from the Geologi- 
cal Society of London and in 1885 was elected a Fellow of the 
Royal Society. His chief papers were ‘Notes on EKchinoderm | 
Morphology,’ ‘On the Genus Actinometra,’ ‘Report on the 
Crinoidea dredged by the Challenger,’ ‘The Stalked Crinoids,’ 
‘The Comatule,’ ‘Report on the Comatule dredged by the U. 
8. Coast Survey in the Caribbean Sea,’ and numerous papers in 
the Transactions of the Royal, Linnean and Geological Societies.” 
Pror. P. WHITFIELD DESCRIBES in Science, Dec. 18, the dis- 
covery of the remains of a mastodon on New York island, at the 
eastern end of Dyckman’s creek at its junction with the Harlem 
river, sixteen feet below mean low-water. 
Mr. J. W. KIRKPATRICK IN THE SAME NUMBER OF Science, de- 
scribes the finding of a nugget of copper, also northern boulders 
and stre, near Fayette, Mo., near the central part of the state, 
the nugget weighing 23 pounds. 
THE FOURTH ANNUAL MEETING OF THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF 
AMERICA was convened at Columbus, O., Dec. 29, 1891. The 
acting president was G. K. Gilbert. The numerous articles read 
will be noted as they may be published in the Society’s bulletin. 
