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material, and is supposed to be only a part of the original mass 
that entered the earth's atmosphere. 
Dr. J. W. Spencer, accompanied by Mrs. Spencer, left on 
Jan. 7 for the Windward islands, intending to be absent for 
over three months, where six years ago he also spent over five 
months. Dr. Spencer is investigating the submarine Carib- 
bean ridge extending to South America. He has found that 
an ( )ligocene white limestone underlies the St. Martin group 
and Antigua, and he will re-examine these islands with the 
view of more detail, the volcanic phenomena being a second- 
ary considera-tion. 
The American Institute of Mining Engineers w'.ll 
hold its eighty-third meeting (the thirty-third annual meeting) 
in Albany, New York, beginning February 17, 1903. The 
headquarters and places of- session have not yet been an- 
nounced. It is expected that at this meeting trips will be tak- 
en to the shops of tihe General Electric Company, and there is 
a promise of several interesting papers on electricity as ap- 
plied to mining. The Institute has accepted an invitation to 
hold its August meeting in British Columbia, and in connec- 
tion with this meeting there will be an excursion to Alaska. 
The librar}- of the Institute now numbers some ten thousand 
volumes on mining and geology, and this library is now acces- 
sible for the use of members. 
New Mexico Academy of Sciences. At the winter meet- 
ing of the New Mexico Academy of Sciences, held at Las 
Vegas in the assembly hall of the Normal University, Decem- 
ber 22-23, Hon Frank Springer was elected president. Dr. 
Charles R. Keyes, vice-president, and Prof. W. G. Tight, sec- 
retary-treasurer. 
The following geological papers were read ;^ Theory of 
Meteoric Agglomeration and the Migration of Ore Materials, 
by Dr. Charles R. Keyes ; History of the Rio Grande at Albu- 
querque, Prof. W. G. Tight ; Louis Agassiz, by Mr. Frank 
Springer; Analyses of New Mexico Waters, by Prof. F. C^ 
Lincoln ; Relations of Moisture in Mesa Soils, by Prof. C. L. 
Magnusson ; Gypsum Deposits of New Mexico, by Mr. Harry 
Herrick ; Geological Structure of New l^Iexican Bolson Plains, 
by Dr. Charles R. Keyes ; Sources of Errors in Our Land Sur- 
veys, by Prof. O. R. Smith ; Geological Sketch of the Sandia 
Mountains, by Prof. W. G. Tight. 
A committee of three, consisting of Dr. Charles R. Keyes, 
Hon. Frank Springer and professor W. G. Tight, was a])- 
pointed to present the matter of a geological survey to the 
New J\fexican legislature this winter. 
Resolutions were passed recommending to Congress tlie 
desirability of establishing a National Ftlmological I'ark north 
of Santa Fe. in one of the richest districts of preliistoric ruins 
