394 The Ajncrican Geologist. June, i90o 
work will be carried on with the aid of a number of trained 
aids, throuf^h interpreters. The lectures, however, will be in 
Spanish. 
The Legislature of Ohio recently appropriated the 
sum of $25,000 for the inauguration of a topographical sur- 
vey of that state, in cooperation with the United States geo- 
logical survey. This movement was initiated by the Ohio 
State Academy of Sciences, December, 1896, which appoint- 
ed a committee who memorialized the Legislature on the 
nature, utility, and cost of such a survey. It received the 
endorsement of various scientific and educational societies 
in the state and of prominent citizens, chambers of com- 
merce, and the principal newspapers. Under the manage- 
ment of Prof. A. A. Wright, chairman of the committee of 
the Ohio Academy, the effort has been crowned with 
success. 
Prof. Henry Y. Osborn leaves for Europe in July to 
attend the International Congress of Geologists in Paris. He 
goes as a delegate from the Xew York Academy of Sciences. 
The Department of Vertebrate Palgeontology of the Ameri- 
can Museum of Natural History has two parties in the field 
this season. One is under the charge of Walker W. Granger 
and is collecting reptilian remains in Colorado and Wyoming, 
while the other, which is led by J. W. Gidley, is exploiting 
a rich find of fossil mammal bones in early pleistocene beds in 
the southwest. Barnum Brown, w'ho has had charge of the 
]^Iuseum expedition to Patagonia, is now on his way to New 
York. He has been very successful and is thought to have 
obtained a very representative Patagonian collection. Seven 
boxes of material have been received from him and fourteen 
more are on their way hither. 
American Association for the advancement of science. 
The next annual meeting will be held at New York City, June 
23 to June 30, at Columbia University. The president is R. 
S. Woodward and the vice-president for the section of Geolo- 
gy is J. F. Kemp, its secretary being J. A. Holmes. 
Special preparations have been made by the Department 
of Vertebrate Palgeontology of the American Museum of 
Natural History for the reception of the geologists and 
palaeontologists who attend the meeting of the American As- 
sociation for the Advancement of Science this year. Every- 
thing is on exhibition in the hall which was in shape to be 
placed there for the interest and instruction of the visitors. 
This includes a large portion of the Cope collection, as well 
as the rich material collected by the numerous expeditions 
which have been sent out by the ]\Iuseum. This department 
has been opened since the last meeting of the Association in 
the vicinity of New York (Brooklyn, 1894), and the display in 
