58 ' The American Geologist. July, 1896 
PERSONAL AND SCIENTIFIC NEWS. 
Dr. G. p. Grimslky, of Washburn College, will t^pencl the 
summer in geological work for the University Geological Sur- 
vey of Kansas. 
Mr. H. Booster Bain, assistant state geologist of Iowa, has 
been appointed to a fellowship in geology at the University 
of Chicago, where he expects to spend the next year in study. 
Prof. J. F. Kkmp, of the Columbia School of Mines, started 
on May 28 with a class of students for Butte, Mont,, where 
the regular summer school of mining and geology will this 
year be held. He wfll return via the Yellowstone park and 
the Black hills. 
T. C. Hopkins, assistant professor of geology. State Col- 
lege, Pa., will worlv on the Geological Survey of Indiana this 
summer on the investigation of the famous oolitic limestone 
of that state in compan}'- with Mr. Siebenthal. His report on 
the sandstones of the state has just been published. 
Sir Archibald Geikie's Lectures (George Huntington 
Williams memorial lectureship) before the Johns Hopkins 
University, which were expected the coming fall, have been 
postponed until next spring. The lectures will be on the 
principles of geology, and will begin "on Wednesday, April 
21, 1897. 
A geological excursion will be offered niembers of the Ge- 
ological Society of America and the American Association 
through the Adirondacks, the week before the meeting in Au- 
gust. Prof. J. F. Kemp will have the party in charge in the 
eastern mountains, Prof. C. H. Snij'th, Jr., in the western. 
Both these geologists expect to continue their field work dur- 
ing the coming vacation. 
Dr. Persifor Frazer, one of our editors, appears in Vol. IV 
of the National Cyclopedia of American Biography with a 
portrait and a well written biographical sketch, giving quite 
a full account of his ancestry as well as an account of liis 
work in geology and his other writings. This cyclopedia 
(James T. White & Co., N. Y.) is very comprehensive and is 
being made to answer as a national portrait gallery as well as 
a biographical encyclopedia. 
Prof. Ralph S. Tarr, of Cornell University, will accompany 
Lieut. Peary on his next Greenland expedition. He will take 
with him a party of five, and besides the trip with several 
