6(') The American Geologist. July, 1895 
nortlieasteni i);irl of the busin of lake Ontario, on northern New York, 
and the greater part of New Enghmd," and that "the ice border during 
that whole time was near," seems to me to be wholly opposeil to the 
evidence in our possession. It is surely evident that the mere proximity 
of such continental ice surfaces would have resulted in the occurrence 
of killing frosts nearly every clear night during the summer, and that 
no conditions less favorable, or less remote from such arctic influences 
than those now found in the same region, are at all compatible with the 
facts. 
I am not aware that any of the plants found about the edge of the 
Malaspina glacier in Alaska* attain their highest northern range for the 
continent there, but even if this were the case, the climatic conditions 
to be reckoned with on the Pacific coast are quite d liferent from any 
which could possibly liave occurred during the Glacial period in the 
eastern part of America. George M. Dawson. 
M(u/ :20, 1S95. 
PERSONAL AN D SCIE NTIFIC NEWS. 
Dk. ED^VA1U) B. Mathews, instructor in mineralogy in the 
Johns Hopkins University, is spending the summer in study 
in Germany. 
Mk. Harry A. Lee has been appointed Commissioner of 
Mines of Colorado by Gov. Melntire. A bill was recently 
passed establishing a state bureau of mines in Colorado simi- 
lar to that in California. {J^ny. and Milling Journal.) 
Hon. Eckley B. Coxe, of Drifton, Pa., died on May 13th. 
Mr. Coxe was a well known mining engineer and was one of 
the organizers and early vice-presidents and presidents of the 
American Institute of Mining Engineers. 
Mr. J. S. DiLLER, of the U. S. Geological Survey, passed 
through Minneapolis on June 8th. He was on his way to in- 
vestigate the Tertiary coal beds a short distance west of 
Portland, Oregon. 
Prof. Karl A. von Zittel's paper on " Pahf ontology and 
the Biogenetic Law," which was read before the Internation- 
al Congress of Geologists last summer, has recently been pub- 
lished in Nattiral Science (No. 39, May, 1895). 
Dr. Henry Woodward, president of the Geological Soeiet}'- 
of London, at the last meeting of that society chose for the 
subject of his presidential address, " Some points in the life- 
liistory of the Crustacea in earlj^ Palaeozoic times." 
The British Association for the Advancement of Science 
will meet at Ipswich from Sept. 11th to 19th. The president 
is Sir Douglas Galton. Mr. W. Whitaker, of the Geological 
Survey of Great Britain, is president of section C (Geology). 
*Ibid.. p. 28S. 
