398 The American Geologist. December, i904. 
ZIRKEL, FERDINAND. ' 
Ueber die gegpnseitigen, Beziehungen, zwischen der Petrographie 
und angrentzenden Wissenschaften. (Jour. Geol., vol. 12, pp. 485- 
501, Sept.-Oct., 1904.) 
PERSONAL AND SCIENTIFIC NEWS. 
Dr. J. C. Merriam, professor of Paleontolog\- at the Uni- 
versity of California, has returned from a summer's European' 
trip. 
The University of the Pacific, San Jose, Cahfornia, has 
secured the instructional services of Mr. J. C. Hartzell in Geol- 
ogy- 
Mr. Frank Springer^ Las Vegas, New Mexico, was elect- 
ed June 8 a corresponding member of the Geological Society 
of London. 
Mr. D. H. Newland, one of the associate editors of the 
Engineering and Mining Journal, has been appointed assist' 
ant state geologist of New York. 
Dr. W. C. Mendenhall, of the U. S. Geological Survey ^ 
with headquarters in Los Angeles, has completed the investi- 
gations of most of the artesian basins of southern California. 
Mr. E. H. Sellards, A.M. (Kansas State University) and 
Ph.D. (Yale), has been appointed professor of entomolog}-, 
geology and zoology in the University of Florida, at Lake City. 
Henry McCalley, assistant state geologist of Alabama, 
died November 20, 1904, of pneumonia, aged fifty-three 
years. He had been connected with the Alabama survev since 
1878. 
Robert Simpson Woodward, dean of the School of Pure 
Science at Columbia University, has been elected president of 
the Carnegie Institution to succeed Daniel Coit Gillman, re- 
signed. 
Dr. J. C. Branner, of Stanford University, has returned 
from Europe and will be in Washington, D. C, until the meet- 
ing of the Geological Society of America at Philadelphia, in 
January. 
Sir' Jon N Murray, editor of the publication of the scien- 
tific results of the Challenger expedition, lectured before the 
Geographic Society of Chicago on Thursday evening, Novem- 
ber 3d. His subject was "The Ocean." 
Dr. Ralph Arnold, of the U. S. Geological Sur\'ey,. has 
returned to Washington, D. C, after completing some special 
investigations in the Tertiary formations of Washington. Ore-' 
gon and California under the direction of Dr. Wm. H. Dall. 
