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Dr. R. a. Daly, of Harvard University, expects to act 
as geologist on a scientific and hunting trip to Labrador dur- 
ing the summer. It is planned to explore much of the coast 
thoroughly, and to make traverses of parts of the interior. 
Prof. J. J. StevensoiM and family sail for Europe in 
June by way of the Azores and Genoa. They will travel ex- 
tensively on the continent and attend the International Con- 
gress of Geologists, Prof. Stevenson being a delegate from 
the New York Academy of Sciences. He will make some 
special studies in the coal fields of France during this visit. 
Professor W. C. Brogger, of Christiania, was the 
guest of professor J. F. Kemp during his brief stay in 
New York city on his way back to Norway. The geologists 
of New York and vicinity had the honor of meeting the dis- 
tinguished Norwegian geologist at an evening reception at 
Prof. Kemp's home on Friday, May 25. 
The Boston Society of Natural History has award- 
ed its first Walker prize of Sioo to Dr. Rudolph Ruedemann, 
assistant New York State paleontologist, for an essa}^ on 
*'The Hudson River Formation of the Vicinit}' of Albany, 
N. Y., and its Taxonomic Equivalents." The paper will be 
published as a bulletin of the State Museum. 
Dr. W. D. Matthew, assistant curator of the Depart- 
ment of Vertebrate Palaeontology of the American Museum 
of Natural History, sailed on the ss. Maasdam, 19 May, 
for a four month trip abroad. He will visit the principal 
museums of Europe, making especial studies where there 
are important collections in vertebrate palaeontology, and 
will attend the geological congress at Paris as a delegate 
from the institution with which he is connected. 
The final result of the late explorations of the 
"Albatross," under the direction of Mr. Alexander Agassiz 
is foreshadowed and expressed plainly in the letters from him 
published during the last few months. "We must look to sub- 
marine erosion and to a multitude of local mechanical causes 
for our explanation of the formation of atolls and of barrier 
and encircling reefs, and that, on the contrary, subsidence 
has played no part in bringing about existing conditions of 
the atolls of the south and central Pacific." (Am. Jour. Sci., 
May, 1900., p. 371.) 
Prof. W. M. Davis will spend June in the west, visiting 
the Colorado canon. Later in the summer he is to deliver a 
series of physiographic lectures in England. 
In connection with the summer school of Harxard Uni- 
versity, this summer, 1400 Cuban teachers are to be given 
instruction in several subjects. Next to the study of P'nglish, 
the most elaborate plans are for a survey of geography, es- 
pecially physical A lecturer will be in charge, and field 
