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PERSONAL AND SCIENTIFIC NEWS. 
Dr. Otto Nordenskjold, of Upsala, is preparing a south 
polar Swedish expedition which will be ready to start prob- 
ably, in the fall of 1901. 
Dr. R. a. Daly of Harvard University is planning the or- 
ganization of a summer excursion to Iceland, western Green- 
land and Labrador, conditioned on the formation of a sufficient- 
ly large party leaving Boston on or about June 26, returning 
about September 20. 
Professor E. H. Williams, Jr., of the department of min- 
ing and geology, has equipped a geological laboratory for the 
microscopic study of rocks at Lehigh University. 
Profs. A. J. Moses and L. M. Luquer contribute to the 
Journal of Applied Microscopy abstracts of mineralogical lit- 
erature, American and foreign.. These are particularly val- 
uable in the mathematical and physical, especially the optical, 
characters. 
Prof. H. B. Patton, of the Colorado School of Mines, 
Golden, Colo., offers a list of rare Colorado minerals and of 
rocks, for exchange with institutions which may have others 
for such disposition. 
Geological Society of Washington. At the meeting of 
January 23rd the following was the program : "The geologic 
age of Shell bluff, Ga., one of Lyell's original localities," T. 
Wayland Vaughan ; "Trias in northeastern Oregon," Wal- 
<iemar Lindgren ; "Comparison of the Ouachita and Arbuckle 
mountain sections, Indian Territory'," J. A. Taff ; "Age of 
the coals at Tipton, Blair county. Pa.," David White. 
The Lake Superior Mining Institute will hold its 
seventh meeting in the copper district of Michigan on March 
5 to 8. The headquarters will be at Houghton. 
Geological Society of America. — The regular winter 
meeting was held at Albany, N. Y., presided over by Dr. G. M. 
Dawson, who gave an ex-augural address on "The Geological 
record of the Rocky Mountain region." The session con- 
tinued through Dec. 27, 28 and 29, and was attended by about 
thirty geologists. A large number of papers were read. A 
reception was given the Society by the state geologist. Dr. F. 
J. H. Morrill, at his residence, evening of Dec. 28, and the 
usual subscription dinner occurred Dec. 27. The Society as- 
sembled, and held its meetings, in the Albany Boys' Acad- 
emy, in the room in which Henry demonstrated publicly the 
possibility of the electric telegraph. The president-elect is 
