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I may add that very similar phenomena can be observed on the 
north shores of Unga and Popofif islands of the Shumagin group, 
Alaska, where the age is probably Oligocene. Wm. H. Dall. 
Stiiithsoiiiaii Institution, May i, igoi. 
PERSONAL AND SCIENTIFIC NEWS. 
T. \\'. Beede has been api)ointed instructor in geology at 
Indiana State Lniversity, Bloomington, Ind. 
Dr. J. B. \\'ooD\\()KTH has been appointed assistant pro- 
fessor of geology at Harvard University, Cambridge. 
Mr. Warrex Ui'HAM will attend the Dartmouth College 
Commencement. June 23 to 26, the thirtieth anniversary of his 
graduation. 
The Cascade Ti'xxel, by which the Great Northern rail- 
road passes the Cascade mountains, is three miles long and is 
cut wholly in granite. 
Dr. T. C. Hopkixs. professor of geology at Syracuse Uni- 
versity, will work on the Geological Survey of Indiana during 
the present summer. His work will be on the geological map 
of the state. 
Prof. R. P. Whitfield has returned from several weeks 
stay in the Bahamas, where he secured for the American Mu- 
seum of Natural History a number of remarkable specimens 
of corals, to be added to the magnificent series which he has 
obtained on previous visits to the islands and presented to the 
institution. 
The Uxited St.\tes Geologic.vl Surxev H.\.s Issl'Ed a 
map of Niagara river and vicinity on a scale of i :625oo. show- 
ing the topography and the culture features, which will be of 
great convenience to all who, visiting the Buffalo Pan-Ameri- 
can Exposition, desire to make some examination of the geol- 
ogy of the region. 
The Next Meetixg of the Americax .\ssociatiox for 
THE Adx'axcemext OF SciEXCE. and of the Geological Society 
of America, will be held at Denver. Colo.. Aug. 24 to Aug. 31. 
C. D. W'alcott is i)resident of the (icological Society and C. R. 
\'an Hise is vice-president in charge of the section of geology 
and geography of the Association. 
Mis.s L. A. Owen describes, in Vcrhandl. dcs J'll. infcrnaf. 
Gcographcn-Kongresscs, Berlin, 1899. the discovery of a large 
stone ax imbedded in the bluff on the west side of the river at 
Atchison, Kansas, twenty miles south of St. Joseph, Mo. The 
imjjlement, whose discovery is attested by affidavit taken by an 
eminent attorney, was found in com])aratively undisturbed 
loess, four feet below the surface. 
