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parts of Germany as may be of interest in reg'ard to physical 
or economic geography. An excursion to Hamburg, b)- 
invitation of the Geographical Societ\' of that city, is espec- 
ial!}' contemplated. .Those who intend to read papers at the 
congress are requested to notify the secretary- before April 
I. The membership fee is 20 marks. The address of the 
officers of the congress is 90 Zimmerstrasse, Berlin S. W. 
Dr. H. C. HovEY, of Newburyport, Mass., gave an il- 
lustrated lecture on the Region of the Gausses in France, 
January 30, before the section of geology and mineralog)' 
of the New York Academy of Sciences, at the rooms of the 
American .Societ}' of Mechanical Engineers, New York. 
W.ard's Collection of Meteorites. Under date of 
December 10, 1898, Prof. H. A. Ward writes from Teheran. 
Persia, "The only cause which I can give for coming clear 
up here from the Caucasus and the Caspian is my getting 
enamored of a meteorite (the Veramin) which I have known 
for some years as being in the possession of His Majest\ 
the Shah. This I have found and I have spent the last two 
days in cutting off a fair sized piece f<»r my collection of 
meteorites, which collection I am increasing by this Europe- 
Asiatic trip by over one hundred falls." 
The Geological .Society of London is about to pub- 
lish the manuscript in its possession of a portion of the third 
volume of Button's "Theory of the Earth." It has been 
edited and prepared for the press by Sir Archibald Geikie. 
The third volume will be printed in the style of the first 
and second volumes of the same work, and will contain 
about 300 pages. It will be issued in paper covers. The 
price w^ill be, to fellows of the societ}', 2s. ; to the public, 3s. 
6d.. Only a limited number of copies are to be issued. .Sub- 
scriptions ma)' be sent to the secretary of the Geological 
Societ}', Burlington House, W. 
The Work for Prof. Crosby's Memoir on the geolo- 
gy of the Boston Basin has been completed through the 
Blue Hills, which are to form the third volume. The paper 
is now waiting for a few rock analyses of the intrusives. Dr. 
T. G. White, of Columbia University, did the petrographic 
work, and Mr. A. W. Grabau. of Harvard Universit}'. wrote 
the part on the glacial lake Bouve, which is included within 
the bounds of this memoir. For the fourth volume, which 
will take up the region west of the Blue Hills, the Neponset 
and H)'de Park district, Prof. Crosb}- is to have the assist- 
ance of Dr. Bascom in the petrographic work. 
Dr. a. S. Eakle, of Harvard University, is begin- 
ning a chemico-petrographical stud\' of the igneous rocks 
of the Boston Basin, similar to that which Dr. Washington 
has undertaken for those of Essex countv Mass. 
