Personal and Scientific News. 129 
PERSONAL AND SCIENTIFIC NEWS. 
Thomas Henry Huxley died at Eastbourne, England, on 
June 29th, aged 75 years. 
Prof. E. W. Claypole, of Buehtel College, is spending the 
summer months in England. 
Professor G. C. Broadhead has been made Professor Emer- 
itus at the State University of Missouri. 
In Syracuse University Dr. E. C. Quereau has been ap- 
pointed professor of geology and mineralogy. (Science.) 
Curtis F. Marbut of Harvard University has been appoint- 
ed instructor in geology at the State University of Missouri. 
He also has charge of the topographical work of the Missouri 
Geological Survey. 
Dr. Carl Barus, who is well known through his work in 
the division of chemistry and physics of the United States 
Geological Su'rvey, becomes Hazard professor of physics in 
Brown University. 
Professor W. H. Seamon, member of the Geological Board 
of Missouri and professor of chemistry in the Missouri School 
of Mines, has been elected director of the New Mexico School 
of Mines at Socorro. 
Mr. W. N. Moore, who has been in charge of the forecast- 
ing ofi3ce of the Weather Bureau at Chicago, is now chief of 
the United States Weather Bureau, having succeeded Prof. 
Mark W. Harrington. 
Professor J. J. Stevenson, of the University of the City of 
New York, will spend the summer in the coal fields of Arkan- 
sas, Indian Territory and Texas, with incidental studies in 
New Mexico and Colorado. (Science.) 
Silas Watson Ford died at Saratoga, N. Y., June 25th, aged 
48 years. Mr. Ford's name is familiar to American paleontol- 
ogists through his papers on the fauna of the Silurian and 
Cambrian, which were published from 1871 to 1886. 
The New York State Museum announces the following 
bulletin (Vol. 3, No. 14) as in press: "Geology of Moriah and 
Essex Townships, Essex Co., with Notes on the Iron Mines," 
by J. F. Kemp. A bulletin (Vol. 3, No. 15) on the "Mineral 
Eesources of New York," by F. J. H. Merrill, is in prepara- 
tion. 
At the oommen'cement exercises at Yale University Prof. 
George Fish.er introduced a resolution of regret, which was 
unanimously adopted, on the death of Prof. James Dwkjht 
Dana. He announced that if $4,500 more were raised, a ped- 
estal and bust of the late professor would be erected on the 
campus. (Science.) 
