396 The American Geologist. •^""'^■' ^'^'^^• 
Department of Geology at the University of Wiscon- 
sin, Professor C. R. Van Hise, who has been at the head of 
this department for some years, was elected president of the 
university on April 2ist. His new duties begin about October 
1st; in the meantime he is expecting to visit Europe and attend 
the International Congress of Geologists at Vienna. Dr. C. K. 
Leith has been promoted from assistant professor to professor 
of structural and economic geology. Dr. Wm. H. Hobbs con- 
tinues as professor of mineralogy and petrology. Dr. J. Mor- 
gan Clements has resigned his professorship and will probably 
open an office as consulting economic geologist in New York 
City. Dr. N. M. Fenneman, of the University of Colorado, has 
been elected professor of general and physiographic geology. 
The completion of the paleontologic monographs be- 
gun by the late O. C. Marsh has been entrusted to professor 
Henry Fairfielcf Osborn, vertebrate paleontologist of the Unit- 
ed States Geological Survey. The materials left by professor 
Marsh did not include any completed manuscript, iDut consist- 
ed chiefly of a series of fine lithographic plates and wood en- 
gravings, illustrating four important groups of vertebrates. 
The specimens illustrated are contained in part in the collec- 
tions of the Survey and in part in those made for the Yale 
University Museum under the direction of professor Marsh. 
In order to insure the completion of these monographs within 
a reasonable period, professor Osborn recommended to the Di- 
rector of the Survey a division of authorship, assigning the 
monograph on the Ceratopsia to Dr. J. B. Hatcher, now con- 
nected with the Carnegie Museum, Pittsburg, and that on the 
Stegosauria to Dr. F. A. Lucas, of the United States National 
Museum. Professor Osborn has himself undertaken the prep- 
aration of the monographs on the Titanotheres or Brontother- 
iidae and on the amphibious dinosaurs of the order Sauropoda. 
United States Geological Survey. The mineral re- 
sources of the Mount Wrangell district in Alaska will be dis- > 
cussed in Professional Papers No. 15 by Messrs. W. C. Men- 
denhall and F. C. Schrader. This report is now in press. The 
chief mineral resources of the district are copper, gold and ■ 
coal. 
Dr. H. E. Gregory, of Yale University, has undertaken an 
investigation of the underground waters of Connecticut.' 
A topographic map of the country adjacent to the Rands- 
burg and Johannesburg districts of California will soon be 
issued. The district is a desert area, and its mineral wealth 
consists of gold. 
Hydrologic work consisting of the investigation of under- 
ground waters, has recently been begun in Michigan. Mr. W. 
F. Cooper, working imder the supervision of Dr. A. C. Lane, 
state geologist, has charge of the work. 
