394 The American Geologist. J""'^' i^*^=^- 
PERSONAL AND SCIENTIFIC NEWS. 
r'ROFESsoR T. C. Chamberlin delivered a lecture on "The 
nebular hypothesis" at Northwestern University on April 29th, 
Horace V. Winchell will examine, the coming summer, 
the reputed copper districts of Alaska, entering the country by 
way of Valdes. 
Professor Russell D. George, of the State University of 
Iowa, has accepted the professorship of geology in the State 
University of Colorado^. 
Dr. C. p. Berkey, assistant professor of geology and min- 
eralogy at the State University of Minnesota, has accepted an 
appointment to a similar position in Columbia University, New 
York, beginning in September. 
Professor N. H. Winchell is making geological eco- 
nomic explorations in the vicinity of Flathead lake, Montana, 
and is likely to be absent from Minneapolis the greater part of 
the summer. 
Mr. Ernest F. Burcfiard, at present teaching chemistry 
and geology in the Sioux City high school, has been appointed 
tO' a fellowship in geology at Northwestern University, from 
which institution he obtained his bachelor's degree three years 
ago. 
Albert Huntington Chester, curator of the geological 
museum and professor of chemistry and mineralogy at Rut- 
gers College, New Brunswick, N. J., died on April 13 from 
pneumonia. He was a graduate of Union College, and at one 
time taught at Hamilton. 
Geological excursion to Devils lake and the Dalles 
OF THE Wisconsin. On April i6th, 17th and i8th Professor 
C. R. Van Hise conducted a party of about seventy-five stu- 
dents from the University of Wisconsin and from Northwestern 
University to these localities. 
Mr. Bailey Willis has accepted the position of leader of 
the Carnegie Geological Expedition to China, which has as its 
object the investigation of the Cambrian of that country. He 
will be assisted by Mr. Eliot Blackwelder of the University of 
Chicago. Mr. Willis expects to leave Washington in July, to 
attend the International Congress of Geologists at Vienna, and 
to go to China via Siberia. 
Dr. H. Foster Bain has accepted an appointment as geolo- 
gist on the United States Geological Survey, and during Mr. 
Bailey Willis's absence in China Dr. Bain will be acting editor 
of geologic folios. He is to take up the study of the lead and 
