268 - The American Geologist. October, 1904. 
The Paleontological library of the late Prof. C. E. 
Beectier of Yale University, is for sale. It comprises over 
3000 pamphlets and 200 volumes. Those desiring further in- 
formation should write Prof. Charles Schuchert, Yale Mu- 
seum, New Haven, Conn. 
Dr. a. C. Lane^ state geologist, has been engaged as 
non-resident lecturer to give two lectures a week on 
economic geologv^ at the University of Michigan. This is 
a part of the work that belonged in the department of the 
late professor W. H. Pettee. 
The Keewatin' greenstone was struck by a deep well at 
Veblen, in Marshall county, South Dakota, at a depth of 860 
feet. A sample of the drill-core showed a much squeezed rock 
carrying a considerable fine-grained or "chalcedonic" quartz. 
This formation gave a flow of soft water. 
We learn that Professor Dr. J- F- Pompeckj, long as- 
sociated with the late professor von Zittel, is to leave the Alta 
Akademie at Munich, having accepted the chaii of geology in 
the Landwirtschaptlichen Hochschule at Hohenheim near Stutt- 
gart. We understand no chair of paleontology was established 
at Munich, but only one for geology, now occupied by profes- 
sor Rothpletz. 
Mr. O. a. Peterson^ who has been making explorations 
for the Carnegie museum o'f Pittsburg, in the northwestern 
part of Nebraska and' in Wyoming, made a somewhat pro- 
longed field examination of the curious fossils known as Dai- 
monelix. In a preliminary paper (Science, Sept. 9, 1904) he 
states that he believes from the facts noted that there is but 
little room to doubt that Daimonelix is cast of the burrow of 
a rodent. The skeletons of numerous rodent specimens vrere 
found entombed in the giant coils. 
The Deepest Oil or Gas Well in the United States 
was completed in 1898 on the William Bedell farm at West 
Elizabeth, 12 miles southwest of Butler, Pa. It is 5,575 feet 
deep. A 10 inch casing was used to 40 feet, an 8.25 inch to 
360 feet, a 6.25 inch to 1320, and from thence to the bottom 
is a 6.25 inch hole. Record was kept of the geological for- 
mations, the hole starting in the Carboniferous, 150 feet below 
the horizon of the Pittsburg coal and ending in a black 
shale supposed to be the Marcellus shale of the middle Devon- 
ian. Prof. Hallock, qf Columbia University, made some 
careful tests of the temperature. At 525 feet the temperature 
was 57 deg.- Fah., at 2252 feet 64 deg. ; at 2397 feet 78 deg. ; at 
5010 feet 120 deg. ; and at 5380 feet 127 degrees, an increase 
with depth of about 1.4 deg. per 100 feet. An accident left the 
tools and 1000 feet of the cable in the well. plui;g>ng it. or it 
would have been drilled deeper. (Eng. Min. Jour.) 
