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on the relationship of the glacial lakes following the ice age, and the 
second on the Champlain submergence. 
A paper on the pre-glacial drainage of Summit county, Ohio, was read 
by Prof, E. W. Claypole, and illustrated by a map, He showed consid 
erable difference between the courses of the present and the pre-glacial 
streams. 
Other papers were read by titles in the absence of their authors, and 
the proceedings continued until late on Thursday afternoon in order to 
complete the programme. 
Altogether the meeting was a pleasant and a profitable occasion for 
the members who were present. The society will meet next summer in 
accordance with its rule,at Rochester, N. Y., about the time of the meet- 
ing of the American Association. 
Mr. Joun EYERMAN is in the south of France. All letters 
should be addressed to the care of Messrs. J. 8. Morgan & Co., 
22 Old Broad St., London, E. C., Eng. 
Pror. F.W.CRAGIN HAS BEEN GRANTED LEAVE OF ABSENCE from 
Colorado College to enable him to do special work for the Geolog- 
ical Survey of Texas,on which he has been appointed assistant geol- 
ogist. He has already entered upon his work in that promising 
field, and his address, till further notice, will be Austin, Texas. 
Dr. PERstroR FRAZER, of Philadelphia, sailed Feb. 27 for 
Genoa, and will be absent till May next. 
Mr. F. D. Adams, LECTURER IN GEOLOGY AND PETROGRAPHY 
in McGill University, and formerly of the Canadian Geological 
Survey, has assumed the duties of editor of the Canadian Record 
of Science, which is published quarterly in Montreal. 
Mr. Raupn 8. Tarr, of the New Jersey Geological Survey, has 
been appointed to the position at Cornell University left vacant 
by the death of Dr. J. Francis Williams. 
Dr. FERDINAND RoemkR, the distinguished German geologist, 
died at his home in Breslau, Dee. 14th, in his seventy-fourth 
year. He was not only one of the most eminent geologists of 
Kurope, but his writings and investigations on this country, where 
he worked for many years, gave him a place among the most 
honored of our pioneer workers. It can be said truly that his 
works on the formations of Texas laid the foundation for the geo- 
logical exploration of that state. 
Sir AnpREW Ramsay, late Director-General of the English 
Geological Survey, died at Baumaris, Anglesey, December 9, 
1891, in his seventy-seventh year. He was at the head of the 
(reological Survey for nine years, retiring in 1881. 
Dr. T. SteRRy Hunt, the most eminent chemical geologist of 
the United States, died in New York about the middle of February. 
His last work, which is reviewed in this number of the GEOLOGIST, 
occupied him in the last months of his long and diversified life, 
and served to round out with a satisfactory completion, the brilliant 
labors of a brilliant career, 
