Correspondence. y\ 
reached, their reasons for them, and the difficnUies they had en- 
countered. This enabled each one to keep in touch with the work 
of the others. 
As in previous years each squad will prepare a full report with 
maps, sections, photographs, etc. 
The class had as a foundation for their areal work a carefully pre- 
pared topographical map, made for professor Smock and kindly put 
at the disposal of the school. This map on a scale of six inches to 
the mile and with ten foot contour intervals enabled detailed and ac- 
curate mapping. H. w. shimer. 
PERSONAL AND SCIENTIFIC NEWS. 
Dk. Charles R. Keyes has been tendered the presidency of 
the New Mexico School of Mines, at Socorro. 
KiRTLAND Hall is to be the naine of the new building for 
mineralogy, geology and physiography at Yale University. 
Dr. Heinrich Ries, instructor in economic geology in 
Cornell university, has been promoted to be assistant professor. 
Mr. Andrew Carnegie has promised to duplicate all sub- 
scriptions to the Hugh Miller Centenary Llemorial up to 
$7,500. 
George B. Shattuck^ Johns Hopkins University, has 
been promoted to the position of associate professor of physio- 
graphic geology. 
Mr. H. W. Turner has retired from the United States 
Geological Survey, and is located at San Francisco, ejigaged in 
private expert geological work- 
Professor S. W. Beyer, of the Iowa Agricultural College, 
and a large class of geological students are engaged in field 
study in central Colorado. Ten weeks will be spent among 
the mines and in the mountains. 
Prof. Angelo Heilprin and George Ken nan are to- 
gether studying the volcanic eruptions at Martinique and St. 
Vincent. They recently penetrated so near the crater of Mt. 
Pelee that they made several photographs of the chasm. 
Dr. H. Foster Bain, who has been secretary of the Silver 
Age Mining Co., with headquarters at Idaho Springs. Color- 
ado, has become also General Manager of the Consolidated 
Franklin Mines Co., operating largely at the same place and 
at Cripple Creek, and elsewhere in the state. A new stani]) mill 
is now being erected in the Clear Creek canyon. 
The late Dr. Edward W. Claypole was honored at the 
Throop Polytechnic Institute recently by the placing of his bust 
in the assembly hall of the Institute. The presentation address 
was made by president W^ H. Knight of the Los Angeles Acad- 
emy of Sciences, and Dr. Norman Bridge accepted it for the 
Board of Trustees. The bust was made bv Frank H. Stone of 
