264 The American Geologist. April, idoi 
Survev, on which staiY lie has l)eeii engaged for upwards of 
forty years. 
On Saturday, ]\Iarch, 2d. 1901, at the hour of 6 105 p. m., Dr. 
George M. Dawson. C. M. Ci., F. R. S., F. G. S., etc., memher 
of the Geological Survey of Canada since 1875. and its able and 
distinguished director since 1895, ^^^^'^^ o^ capillary bronchitis, 
resulting from a slight cold. He had been attending to his of- 
ficial duties with the usual vigour and enthusiasm up to a late 
hour Thursday. Feb. 28th, only onr day of twenty-four hours 
intervening before death came. A notice of his life and works 
will appear later. 
The Cerrillos Antiir.vcite Mixes. — We have, or are sup- 
posed to have, so little anthracitecoal in the West that a veritable 
anthracite coal mine is a novelty of especial interest. Such we 
heard of being near Cerrillos Station in New Mexico, and in a 
recent visit to that country w^e stopped ofif to examine it. We 
were surprised to find not only a w^ell and deeply developed 
mine, but a coal village around the works of many substantial 
houses and numbering some 500 to 800 inhabitants, wath an 
extensive plant and a large coal breaker of thoroughly eastern 
or Pennsylvania pattern. 
The Cerrillos mountains are a small group of hills some 
50 miles north of Albuquerque city. New Mexico. They are 
formed of a central core of eruptiA^e porphyritic rock surround - 
ed by a series of uptilted sandstones of the Laramie Cretaceous 
coal-bearing series. Into these strata many dikes and in- 
trusive sheets of porphyryte have been intruded, emanating 
from the parent core. The heat from these eruptive sheets, 
when they have come near enough to th.e coal, has metamor- 
phosed the coal into anthracite. Coal beds not so influenced in 
the same region remain unchanged as bituminous coal, conse- 
(|uently there are two classes of coal worked near one another. 
One a four foot six inches seam of bituminous coal and another, 
some 50 to 75 feet below, of three feet six inches to four feet 
of anthracite overlain by a thick intrusive sheet of eruptive 
liorjihyrytes. — (Mines and Minerals.) 
The P.\L.\EOXTOGR.\pniCAL Society announces that mon- 
ographs of the following groups of fossils are in course of 
preparation, and will be published bv the Societv : the Carbon- 
iferous Lepidodendra, bv Dr. D. H. Scott ; the Cycadea, by 
Mr. A. C. Seward ; the Graptolites, by Prof. Lapworth. assist- 
ed by Miss Files and Miss Wood ; the Fishes of the Chalk, by 
Dr. A. S. Woodward : the Reptilia of the Oxford Clav, by Dr. 
C. W. Andrews : and the Cave Hyaena, by Mr. S. H. Reynolds. 
The volume issued by the Society for 1900 contains the Cre- 
taceous Lamellibranchs. by Mr. H. Woods: the Carboniferous 
Lamcllibranchs. bv Dr. W. Hind: and the Carbonifcrou.s 
Ce])halo])(>ds of Ireland. liy Dr. A. H. Ford. ( Xafiire.) 
