Personal and Scientitic Xeics. 67 
Dr. Kakl Vogt, for many years professor of geology at 
Geneva, died on May 6th, at the age of 78 years. He was 
born at Giessen and studied under Liebig anil Agassiz. Be- 
fore his appointment at Geneva he had held a similar chair 
at the university of his native town. 
Mr. Bailey Willis, of the U. S. Geological Survey, and as- 
sistants will make a reconnaissance of the mineral resoiyces 
in the vicinity of Puget sound. This region is already some- 
what familiar to Mr. Willis from his work on the Northern 
Transcontinental Surve3^ 
The University of Chicago has lately distributed the pro- 
gramme of the department of geology, 1895-1896. Brief ac- 
counts of the aims of the department, the equipment, library 
facilities and courses of instruction are given. The officers 
of instruction number eight, and there are thirty-one courses 
offered. 
Geological Society of Washington. At the meeting on 
May 22d the following papers were read: Questions in re- 
gard to the former extent of continental areas suggested by 
tlie distribution of oceanic fishes, by G. Brown Goode ; The 
North American continent in Cretaceous and Tertiary time, 
by G. K. Gilbert ; Recent examination of the Cambrian in 
Georgia and Alabama, by C. D. Walcott. 
The Geological Society of America will hold its seventh 
summer meeting Tuesday and Wednesday, August 27th and 
28th, in the Art Museum, Springfield, Mass. Several excur- 
sions to points of geological interest in the neighborhood of 
Springfield have been arranged. These will be conducted by 
Profs. W. 0. Crosby, W. M. Davis, W. N. Kice and Wm. H. 
Hobbs. 
The Sixth International Geographical Congress, which 
meets in London from Jul}^ 26th to August 3d, has made ar- 
rangements for an exhibition. It has been definitely ar- 
ranged that the exhibition, as well as the (jongress, will be 
held in the building of the Imperial Institute, South Kensing- 
ton. The exhibition will be opened early in July and will 
probably remain open until the middle of September. 
The Geological Society of London has adopted the plan 
of issuing in a separate pamphlet the catalogue of literature, 
mainly of course geological, which was added to its library 
during the last six months of 1894. It is double, the first ])art 
under the author's names and the second under subject-titles. 
It fills 58 closely printed pages. It will prove, if continued, 
as we hope it will be, a very valuable summary of geological 
literature. 
Messrs. G. F. Becker and Chestei; W. Piuington, with Dk. 
W. F. Dall, left Washington May 14th for a reconnaissance 
