64 The American Geologist. January, mui. 
bling of which has been under his direction for the past ten 
or eleven A'ears. 
Prof. H. C. Bumpus, of Brown University, has been 
called to the position in the American Museum left vacant by 
Prof. Osborn, and he assumed office as "assistant to the 
president" on the ist of January. Recent invertebrates have 
been taken away from the department of geology and reptiles 
and fishes from the department of vertebrate zoology and 
erected into a new department, of which Prof. Bumpus has 
been made curator. 
The old department of geology has been further subdivided 
by constituting a new department of mineralogy, of which 
Mr. L. P. Gratacap has been made curator. Mr. Gratacap 
also retains charge of the recent shells, of which he has had 
the care for several years. Prof. R. P. Whitfield remains cur- 
ator of the reorganized department of geology and inverte- 
brate paleontology, which these changes restore to the scope 
which it had when he came to the museum more than twenty- 
three years ago. Dr. E. O. Hovey, who has been assistant 
curator in the department for seven years, has been advanced 
to be associate curator. 
Geological Society of Washington, — The following 
was the program for the meeting on January 9th : N. H. Bar- 
ton, "Comparison of the Geolog}^ of the Black Hills with that 
of the Front Ranges of the Rocky Mountains ;" A. H. Brooks 
and A. J. Collier, "Glacial Phenomena in the Seward Penin- 
sula, Alaska ;" A. C. Spencer, "The Physiography of the Cop- 
per River Basin, Alaska." 
A SKETCH OF Dk. Luciis Lek HuinjAiJi), former state geol- 
ogist of Michigan, is given in the Michigan Miner, vol. 3, No. 
I, Dec. I, 1900. The sketch is accompanied by a photograph 
and was written by Dr. Alfred C. Lane, the present state geol- 
ogist. 
A new "Geological Review" has been established in Ger- 
many, edited by Dr. K. Keilhack, at Berlin, published by 
Borntraeger Brothers, at Leipzig. The first number is dated 
Jan. I, 1901, has thirty-two pages and embraces reviews of 
geological contributions from all parts of the world, printed in 
German, French and English. The American co-editors are 
F. D. Adams, H. M. Ami, W. H. Beal, E. Bose, W. M. Davis, 
F. P. Gulliver, Eugene Hussak, F. H. Knowlton, H. B. Kiim- 
mel, C. Palache, H. Ries, R. D. Salisbury, T. W. Stanton, and 
J. E. Wolff. There are sixty-three other co-editors. G. E. 
Stechert, New York, agent. Subscription, 30 marks. 
The Department of Geology and Geography at Har- 
vard University will move at the en dof this college year into 
the new wing of the University Museum, now being con- 
structed for its use. This will relieve it from the cramped 
quarters which it has occupied for so long. 
