Personal and Scientific News. 325 
Arnold Hague, of the United States Geological Survey, 
was elected, April 3, a member of the American Philosophical 
Society, Philadelphia. 
Prof, Joseph Barrell, of Lehigh University, has been 
appointed assistant professor of structural geology in Yale 
University at New Haven. 
Deposits of Tin have been reported from the valley of 
Tuttle creek, Alaska. This stream enters the Arctic ocean a 
little north of Behring strait. 
Professor A. W. Grabau delivered a public illustrated lec- 
ture in Boston before the Home and Field club. His subject 
was "Fossils, what they are and what they teach." 
Geological Survey of Washington. Governor McBride 
vetoed the appropriation for this survey made by the state leg- 
islature, thus causing- its suspension for at least two years. 
The American Philosophical Society has appointed a 
committee to prepare a plan for the appropriate celebration of 
the bicentennial of the birth of Benjamin Franklin, in January, 
1906. 
Recent discoveries of gold on the Tanana river and its 
tributary creeks in Alaska, are said to promise that this district 
will equal or exceed the Klondike district in production of gold 
in the near future. 
Geological Society of Washington. At the meeting 
on March nth the following program was presented: "Coal- 
bearing series of the Yukon," A. J. Collier; "Soils of the wheat 
lands of Washington," F. C. Calkins; "Calculation of center- 
points in the quantitative classification of igneous rocks," H. S. 
Washington; "Practical workings of the quantitative classifi- 
cation," E. B. Mathews, 
Geological Society of Washington. At the meeting of 
April 2nd the following program was presented : "Correla- 
tion of the Potomac formation in Maryland and Virginia," 
Lester F. Ward ; "Metallic sulphides from Steamboat Springs, 
Nevada," W. Lindgren ; "Origin of bedded breccias in North- 
ern Arkansas," G. L Adams ; "Dahlonega mining district, 
Georgia," E. C. Eckel. 
The tetrafiedral theory of the outlines of the surface 
of the earth receives afBrmative evidence in the news brought 
from the Antarctic by the ship Discovery. One of the angles 
of the tetrahedron should appear at the south pole, according 
to that hypothesis. Thfe returning ship reports vast and moun- 
tainous tracts of land more or less volcanic but glacier-laden, 
thus greatly in contrast with the Arctic regions. 
Eleppiant, Bison and Man in Eastern Washington. 
Dr. C. H. Sternberg in Science, March 2y, 1903. recounts ex- 
plorations by him in 1878, in Whitman county, Washington, 
about 100 miles north of Walla Walla, when, in the swamps of 
