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ing- the extent of the field, the value of the prodi:ct, and the 
possibilities of further development." A third bulletin on the 
"Coals, I^ionites and Asphalt Rocks of Texas" is now in the 
h.ands of the printer and will probably soon be ready for distri- 
bution. 
Mr. Benj. F. Hill, the assistant g-eologist, has been for some 
time actively en.^aj?ed in field work in the quick silver region 
of Brewster county, the results of which will appear in the 
form of a third bulletin to be issued about the first of Septem- 
ber. The Survey, in cooperation with the U. S. Geological 
Survey, is now preparing topographic maps of this area, the 
work being under the supervision of Mr. Arthur Stiles, Topo- 
grapher of the U. S. G. S. 
Harvard University. — Dr. A. W. G. Wilson has been ap- 
pointed demonstrator in geology at McGill University. 
Professor W. H. Niles, of the Mass. Institute of Technol- 
ogy, has resigned. 
The glacial work of the New York state survey is directed 
this season chiefly toward working out the Champlain shore 
lines on the north side of the Adirondacks. 
Professor W. M. Davis has conducted a party in another 
trip to the Grand Caiion, to study neglected problems connected 
with its history. The work closes about August 15th. 
Dr. J- E. Woodman has been appointed assistant professor 
of geology and mineralogy at Dalhousie University, Halifax, 
Nova Scotia. In addition to vi-ork in the department of geology, 
it is planned to develop a school of mining engineering. 
Mr. L. La Forge is to be an Austin teaching fellow in geol- 
ogy for the next college year, continuing with Dr. T. A. Jag- 
gar, Jr.. work upon tlie Boston folio of the U. S. geological 
atlas. He has worked during part of this season upon the 
rocks in the vicinity of the Hibernia mine, in New Jersey, long- 
studied by professor J. E. Wolff. The latter is now engaged 
exclusively in the Green mountains of Vermont. 
Columbia Univ. Geolog. Department. Prof. J. F. 
Kemp is spending some weeks in Wyoming and Utah. A- 
mongst his other work he will spend several days in the classic 
Leucite Hills region. 
Dr. A. A. Julien is continuing his study of the Cane Cod 
sands. 
3.rr. D. W. Johnson, fellow in geology, is spending the sum- 
mer in some Jurassic and Triassic fields in New ^Mexico and 
Arizona. 
Alr.,H. W. Shimer, assistant in paleontology, is engaged 
in a study of the lower. Devonian rocks of Port Jervis. N. Y., 
and vicinitv. 
Prof. A. W. Grabau is at present engaged in working u]) 
Becraft Mt., near Hudson. N. Y., structurally and stratigra])h- 
icallv, for the New York state survev. 
