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my work which won the prize is only a French translation, and it ap- 
pears with hardly one-sixth of the illustrations. In Switzerland in most 
of the institutions which give prizes it is customary that the works 
which compete for prizes remain tJie personal property of the atithors. 
In 1881 no determination whatever concerning the personal ownership 
had been reached. When Prof. Capellini, on the other hand, was of the 
opinion that my manuscript should remain in the archives at Bologna, 
I considered it the wisest and the best course to lay the question before 
the Congress for decision. I have since then done as it decided and can 
see no favilt in my conduct, — it was correct. 
On page 2G9: Dr. Frazer is not familiar with the use of the German 
language when he accuses us of having erred a year in the age of Prof. 
Beyrich. We knew very well that on this day Prof. Beyrich was only 
seventy-nine years old, but that is called "the eightieth birthday " be- 
cause the first and most important birthday should be numbered, and 
we celebrated entirely correctly his eightieth birthday or the beginning 
of his eightieth year of life. 
I will not mention numerous other misunderstandings, because they 
do not affect me personally. 
Zurich, March 15, 1895. Prof. Dr. Albert Heim. 
PERSONAL AND SCIENTIFIC NEWS. 
Prof. J. W. Judd has been appointed successor of Huxley 
as dean of the Royal College of Science, South Kensington. 
The professorship of geology and mineralogy in the Uni- 
versity of Toronto is vacant, owing to the resignation of Prof. 
Chapman. (Science.) 
Dr. G. p. Grimsley, of Columbus, Ohio, has accepted the 
professorship of geology and natural history in W^ashburn 
College, Topeka, Kansas. 
Mr. Raphael Pumpelly, ex-state geologist of Michigan, and 
Prof. Henry Lloyd Smith, of Harvard, have gone to the Seine 
River gold district, Ontario, on professional business. (J^)t(/. 
eft Mining Journal.) 
Dr. Henry M. Ami, of Ottawa, Canada, assistant paleontol- 
ogist in the Geological Survey Department, has just returned 
home from Europe, whither he had gone to seek rest last 
spring after a trying' illness. He returns greatly improved. 
Mr. Max Krahmann, editor of the "Zeitschrift fiir prak- 
tische Geologic," announces that hereafter that journal will 
be published in Berlin (Charlottenburg, Schillerstrasse 22). 
and that in connection with it he will establish a "Bureau for 
Practical Geology," where maps, books and advice concerning 
economic geology can be obtained. 
Several distinct earthquake shocks were felt in New 
York, Brooklyn, Philadelphia and vicinity early on tlie morn- 
