Personal and Scientific Neivs. 327' 
ago on a new Lower Cambrian fauna from Eastern Massachu- 
setts, which I have elsewhere described as unquestionably the 
most important contribution to the paleontology of the Boston 
Basin since the discovery of Paradoxides by professor W. B 
Rogers, nearly fifty years ago. W. O. Crosov. 
Institute of Technology, Boston, April, igoi. 
PERSONAL AND SCIENTIFIC NEWS. 
Dr. H. E. Gregory has been promoted professor of physi- 
cal geography at Yale University. 
Prof. G. H. Barton, of the Massachusetts Institute of 
Technology, plans to spend the summer in Europe. 
Prof. S. Calvin, of Iowa City, recently visited Montana 
for the purpose of making a special examination of the Great 
Falls coal basin. 
Dr. T. Nelson Dale has resigned as instructor in geol- 
ogy and botany at Williams College, and will leave Williams- 
town during the summer. 
Mr. W. S. Gresley, of Eria, Pa., sailed for England on 
April 17th, where he is to take up professional work in con- 
nection with mining and geology. 
The Office of the State Geological Survey of Mis- 
souri has been moved from Jefiferson City, the capital, to 
Rolla, where the State Mining School is situated. 
Richard P. Rothwell, founder and editor of the En- 
gineering and Mining Journal, and editor of the yearly volumes 
of The Mineral Industry, died at his home in New York City 
on April i8th. 
At a Recent Meeting of the Board of Trustees of the 
Ohio State University John A. Bownocker was promoted to be 
professor of inorganic geology and Charles S. Prosser to be 
professor of geology and head of the department. 
It is Said that for the Few Open Positions on the Ge- 
ological Survev of Canada, a hundred applications have been 
received. This competition is due in part to the interest in ge- 
ology awakened by recent developments of an economic nature 
in the Dominion. 
Mr. Thomas W. Allen, St. Joseph. Mo., reports the dis- 
covery of a very fossiliferous stratum of gray sandstone about 
60 feet above the bed of the Missouri river at that place, 
12 to 14 inches thick. The rock is a mass of fossil plants con- 
sisting of ferns, calamites, Lepidodendrons, Sigillaria, broad- 
leaved plants, nuts, fruits, seeds etc. many varieties. 
Geological Society of V/ashington. — The program for 
the meeting of April 3(1, was as follows : "The priceite of Lone 
