Personal and Scientific News. 117 
Glaciation of high points in the southern interior of British Colum- 
bia. Geo. M. Dawson. Geol. Mag. August, 1889. 
Descriptions of eight new species of fossils from the Cambro-Silu- 
rian rocks of Manitoba. J. F. Whiteaves. Trans. Roy. Soc. Canada, 
vol. vi, Sec. IV, 1889. 
On tachylyte from Victoria park, Whiteinch, near Glasgow. By 
Frank Rutley. Quart. Jour. Geol. Soc. November, 1889, vol. xlv. 
The Foldtani Kozlony (Sept. -Oct. 1889) contains: Sur le progress 
des r^cherches geologiques en Roumanie. Par. Bela de Inkey. Petro- 
graphische und g^ologische Verhaltnisse des centralen Theiles der 
Tokaj-Eperjeser Gebirgskette in der Umgebung von Pusztafalu, von 
Dr. Jul. Szadeczky. Zur Geologic Egyptens, von Joh. Janko jun. 
On the sub-divisions of the Speeton clay. G. W. Lamplugh. Quart. 
Jour. Geol. Soc, November, 1889. 
Die Hermannshole bei Riibeland ; geologisch bearbeitet von Dr. 
J. H. Kloos ; photographisch aufgenommen von Dr. Max Miiller; 
herausgegeben von der hertzoglich technischen Hochschule zu 
Braunschweig. Text und Tafeln. 
Entstehung und Bau der Gebirge, erliiutert am geologischen Bau 
des Harzes, von Dr. J. H. Kloos, pp. 90, 21 Figuren und 7 Tafeln, 
Braunschweig. 
Bui. Soc. Imp. Naturalistes de Moscow. 1889. No. 1 contains : Etudes 
sur les couches jurassiques et cretacees de la Russie. — 1. Jurassique 
sup^rieur et cretacee inferieur de la Russie et de I'Angleterre (PI. ii, 
III, IV) ; with a supplementary communication Sur les couches 
neocomiennes et jurassiques superieures de la Russie et de 
I'Angleterre. A. Pavlow. Also Note sur le neocomien de la Crimea. 
On fossil plants from the Mackenzie and Bow rivers. Sir J. Wil- 
liam Dawson. 2 plates. From Trans. Roy. Soc. Can. vol. vii. 
New species of fossil sponges from the Siluro-Cambrian at Little 
Metis, on the lower St. Lawrence. Sir J. William Dawson. 27 figs, 
and one plate. Trans. Roy. Soc. Can., vol. vii. 
Notes on Devonian plants. D. P. Penhallow. 1 plate. Trans. Roy. 
Soc. Can. vol. vii. ^ 
PERSONAL AND SCIENTIFIC NEWS. 
Winter Meeting op thb Geologicai- Society of America. The 
first annual meeting of the Geological Society of America con- 
vened in the great hall of the American Museum at 10 A. M., December 
26, and continued three days. There was a large attendance of fellows. 
The meeting was welcomed in a few words by IMcrris K. Jessup, Esq., 
president of the Museum, by whose invitation the Society had selocted 
its place of meeting. President James Hall responded in some appro- 
priate sentences. The reports of tlie secretary ami treasurer showed 
that the Society consists of 175 fellows. Elections now announced 
raise the number to 190. About $1,750 are in the treasury, after pay- 
ing all current expenses. Elections announced for 1890 are as follows : 
