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CORPxESPONDENCE. 
Kansas University Geological Survey. My attention has re- 
cently been called to a review (?) of Volume III, of the University Geo- 
logical Survey of Kansas, published in the December, 1898, issue of the 
Geologist and signed by one C. R. K. As the article shows so plainly 
that it was written to vent a personal animosity rather than to let the 
readers of the Geologist know what Volume III contains, I beg leave 
to say to your many readers that our University Geological Survey has 
published four volumes and has Volume V now in press, all of which are 
for free distribution. The edition of Volume I, however, has been e.\- 
hausted for nearly a year, but a supply of the others is still on hand. 
We would be glad to send any or all of them to anyone interested in 
them sufficiently to pay the postage or express. The postage on Volume 
II is 24 cents ; \'olume III, 28 cents ; Volume IV, 32 cents. 
Erasmus Haworth. 
Lawrence, Jan ita/y 20, iSgg. 
PERSONAL AND SCIENTIFIC NEWS. 
International Congress of Geologists. 
The eighth session will be held in Paris, August i6th to 
28th, 1900, in connection with the Universal Exposition of 
igoo. The French geologists have gone into the idea of the 
congress with enthusiasm and a committee of organization 
has been constituted; this committee has already held sev- 
eral meetings; M. Albert Gaudry is president, MM. Michel- 
Levy and Marcel Bertrand vice presidents, and M. Charles 
Barrois general secretary. The meetings of the congress 
will be held in a special pavillion of the exposition, and the 
length of the session will permit the members of the con- 
gress to visit the exposition and geological museums of Paris. 
A large number of excursions to points of geological inter- 
est will be arranged for. The preliminar)' list shows three 
general excursions, which it will be possible for a large num- 
ber of persons to attend, and nineteen special excursions, 
which are reserved for specialists and on each of which it 
will be possible for no more than twenty persons to go. 
The plans of the different excursions form the subject of a 
circular which will be sent out in 1899, anci a summary guide 
book, written by the directors of the different excursions, 
will be placed on sale at the beginning of 1900. 
The Seventh International Geographical Congress 
will be held in Berlin, Sept. 28 to Oct. 4, under the auspices 
of the Gesellschaft fiir Rrdkunde zu Berlin. Before and af- 
ter the congress e.\cursif)ns will be arranged through such 
