Personal a?id Scientific Neivs. 337 
PERSONAL AND SCIENTIFIC NEWS. 
At Harvard University the following appointments 
have been made: William Morris Davis, professor of phys- 
ical geography, to be Sturgis-Hooper professor of geology; 
Robert Tracy Jackson, to be assistant professor of paleontol- 
ogy; Jay Backus Woodworth, to be instructor in geology. 
Prof, B. K. Emerson, during the last winter, has been 
engaged in bringing together all the data available concern- 
ing the granites of Massachusetts and their contact zones. 
The previous field season was spent among the crystallines 
west of the Carboniferous Narragansett basin of Rhode Is- 
land. He finds the region to consist largely of Cambrian 
quartzytes and green schists. These are intruded by pre- 
Carboniferous granites, quartz porph^^ry, micro-granite, and 
interesting breccias of aporhyolytcs which appear to be a 
distant continuation of the volcanic activity near the Boston 
basin. 
Prof. Dr. Anton Fritsch, Director of the Hof-Mu- 
SEUM at Prague and well known from his valuable contribu- 
tions to zoology and palaeontology, is making a tour of in- 
spection of the leading universities and museums in this 
country. He has expressed himself as greatly astonished 
at the wealth of palaeontological material brought together 
in New York and Boston, especiall)' fossil vertebrates; sa\'- 
ing that the collections here far outrank those of anv single 
institution abroad. At Cambridge he was particularl}- inter- 
ested in the famous Schar)' collection, which contains a 
large number of Barrande's types from Bohemia. Prof. 
Fritsch's principal work. Fauna der Gas-Kohle, of which sev- 
eral volumes are already issued, is now approaching com- 
pletion. The last part deals with Permian arachnids very 
similar to those found at Mazon creek, Illinois. 
Dr. a. C. Lane, who has been associated with Dr. 
L. L. Hubbard in the Geological Survey of Michigan and 
has contributed largely to volumes V and VI of the state 
reports, has been appointed his successor, and the board of 
control have requested him, with a view to expediting pub- 
lication, to reside near the state printer in Lansing. In this 
action they have also had in mind the growing importance 
of the mining interests in the Lower Peninsula, which is 
.shown by the shipment of coal to Wisconsin from the Mich- 
igan coal fields, and the numerous recenth' erected salt, soda, 
and cement factories. Dr. Hubbard will not entirely sever 
his connection with the .Surve\- but will continue to have an 
oversight of the work in the Copper District. 
