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PERSONAL AND SCIENTIFIC NEWS. 
Mr. H. E. Gregory has been promoted to be assistant pro- 
fessor of physical geography at Yale University. 
Dr. W. B. Scott, professor of geology in Princeton Uni- 
versity, expects to leave for South America, especially for Pat- 
agonia, in May. 
' Mr. E. J. Garwood has been appointed to the Yates Gold- 
smid chair of geology and mineralogy at University College. 
London, to succeed Prof. T. G. Barney. 
Geological Society' of Washington. At the meeting of 
March 13th, the following was the program: "The Soil Survey 
of Cecil county, Maryland," by C. W. Dorsey ; "Discussion of 
geologic units : formation, stage and age," by Bailey Willis, H. 
S. Williams and others. 
Geological Society oi" Washington. At the meeting of 
March 27th the program consisted of the conclusion, of the dis- 
c:;ssion of geological units, by Messrs. H. S. Williams, C. R. 
Van Hise, T. C. Chamberlain and others. 
Mr. James Bennie, formerly of the Geological Survey of 
Scotland, died on January 28th. He contributed papers to the 
Transactions of the Geological Societies of Edinburgh and 
Glasgow, and two years ago was awarded the Murchison fund 
by the Geological Society of London. 
Geological Survey of Gre.\t Britain and Ireland. Mr. 
J. J. H. Teall, president of of the Geological Society of Lon- 
don, has been appointed director to succeed Sir Archibald 
(ieikie, who retired on February 28th after 46 years of service 
on the Survey. 
School Science is the title o\ a new journal devoted to 
science teaching in secondary schools. It is edited by C. E. 
Linebarger and published at Unity building, Chicago. There 
is a corps of associate editors, among whom are E. C. Case 
(Geology) and Wm. H. Snyder (Geography). 
Thomas Benton Brooks died on Nov. 22, 1900. Major 
Brooks was a well-known worker in American geology, and the 
work for which he will be most fre(|uentlv praised is that which 
he did in the iron districts south of lake Sujjerior. In 
Science for March 22nd Mr. Bailey Willis gives a sketch of 
Major Brooks. 
Dr. Rorert Bell, M. D., L.L. 1).. F. R. S., F. G. S. has 
been ap|X)inted director of the Geological Survey of Canada, 
7ncc G. M. Dawson, deceased. It is understood that Dr. Be!l 
will soon be officially gazetted as "(Hrector" of the Canadian 
