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phia. An effort was made to provide for appending the "ayes" 
and "nays" on the question of recommending removal, but 
this failed. Such information, nevertheless, would certainly 
have been useful to the Bureau as showing the weight of senti- 
ment in favor of removal, and showing also that Dr. Frazer 
who had been so largel}' instrumental in pressing the invita- 
tion from Philadelphia did not entertain the conviction that a 
change of location was necessary. 
Finally, the chairman was instructed to inform provost 
Pepper of the University of Pennsylvania, of the action of the 
committee and explain in language courteous and conciliatory 
as possible, the fact that the change of location had been 
recommended, simply because the committee had been con- 
vinced that it is now impracticable to insure success in a ses- 
sion held in Philadelphia. 
The hope, nevertheless, is privately expressed that, with 
more time for reflection and inquiry, it may yet appear possible 
to meet in Philadelphia in 1891 and accomplish a success 
creditable to American geolog.y. 
The election of Prof. F. 1:1. Snow to the chancellorship 
of the Kansas State University (Lawrence) has rendered it 
desirable that some one shall aid him in the work of the 
department of geology and natural history; and the regents 
recently elected Prof. S. W. Williston. of Yale, associate pro- 
fessor of geology and paheontology. Prof. Williston, who is 
a graduate of Kansas Agricultural College, has more recently 
been assistant to Prof. 0. C. Marsh. 
The Scientific Publishing Company, New York, announce 
the publication of "Gems and precious stones of North Amer- 
ica," by George F. Kunz. The professional standing of the 
author will serve as a guarantee for the excellence of the work. 
The volume is to be handsomely illustrated by colored plates 
by Prang & Co., Boston. Roy. octavo. Price $10.00. 
The summer school of Geology of Harvard University will 
carry on an advanced course in geological field-work in east- 
ern New York and southern New England, under the direc- 
tion of Profs. Shaler and Davis, assisted bv Prof. H. S. Wil- 
liams, Dr. J. E. Wolff and Dr. W. B. Clark. ' 
Students of paleontology will hear with much regret 
of the recent death of Prof, von Q.uenstedt, of Tlibingen. He 
was a leader among German palaeontologists, and did much 
important work in mineralogy also. He had an especially 
profound knowledge of the Lias of Wiirtenberg and its fossils. 
His work on "Der Jura" is well known, and so recently as 
1885 a new edition, greatly modified, of his "Handbuch der 
Petrefactenkunde" was issued. Dr. von Quenstedt died at an 
advanced age on December 21st, 1889. 
Dr. Richard Owen, well known to geologists for his 
"Reconnoissance of the state of Indiana," and other contrilni- 
tions, died recently at New Harmony, Ind. In a future num- 
ber of the Geologist there will be a sketch of his life and 
scientific work. 
