Personal and Scieiitific News. 63 
Schuchert, Chas. 
Lower Devonic aspect of the Lower Helderberg and Oriskany form- 
ations. (BuU.G. S. A., vol. II, pp. 241-332. May, 1900.) 
Smyth, J. L. (J. M. Clements and) 
The Crystal Falls, Iron-Bearing District of Michigan. U. S. G. Sur- 
vey, Mon. 36, pp. 512, 53 plates, 1899. 
Stevenson, John J. 
Edward Orton. (Jour. Geol. vol. 8, April-May, 1900, pp. 205-213.) 
White, David. 
Fossil Flora of the Lower Coal Measures of Missouri. U. S. Geol. 
Survey, Mon. 37, 1899, PP- 464- 1i plates. 
Williams, Henry S. 
Silurian-Devonian boundary in North America. (Bull. G. S. A., 
vol. II, pp. 333-346, May, 1900.) 
PERSONAL AND SCIENTIFIC NEWS 
Prof. W. M. Rice, of Wesleyan University, will at- 
tend the International Congress at Paris, taking part in sev- 
eral of the excursions. 
Dr. Lewis G. Westgate, of Evanston, III., has been 
elected professor of g'eology in the Ohio Wesleyan Univer- 
sity at Delaware, Ohio. 
Dr. H. Foster Bain, recently assistant state geolo- 
gist of Iowa, who has returned from Idado Springs, Colo., 
goes to Joplin, Mo., to undertake a reconnoissance of that 
y.inc field for the U. S. Geological Survey. 
The Popular Science Monthly will hereafter be pub- 
lished by Messrs. McClure, Phillips & Co., and edited by 
Dr. J. McK. Cattell, professor of psychology in Columbia 
University and editor of "Science." 
- ^P.rof. C. M. Hall, of the North Dakota Agricul- 
TUi^-^L' College, has been appointed to conduct a topograph- 
ical Survey of North Dakota, under the direction of the 
Y7'. 'tinited States' Geological Survey. 
Prof.' J. E. Wolff, who has spent most of the last 
winter in study in German)-, is expected to return during the 
latter part of August, and to resume his work at Harvard 
University, next October. 
Mr. Alexander N. Winck^ll, of Minneapolis, who 
has been the last two years strud'jnng at Paris in the labora- 
tories of Profs. Lacroix and Hautefeuille, has been elected 
professor of geology and mineralogy in the new Montana 
School of Mines, at Butte, Moi>tana, and will return in time 
for the opening of the school in September. 
