Personal and Scientific Neivs. 271 
PERSONAL AND SCIENTIFIC NEWS. 
Dr. E. Haanel, lately of Syracuse University, is super- 
intendent of mines for the Dominion of Canada. 
Dr. C. R. Keyks, of DesMoines, has accepted the position 
of president of the New Mexico School of Mines at Socorro. 
Addresses at the Late Centenary of the birth of Hug'li 
Miller, at Cromarty, were given by Archibald Geikie, John M. 
Clarke and others. 
Prof. A. Lacr(jix^ of the Museum d' Histoire Naturelle 
will soon leave Paris for Martinif[ue for the purpose of making 
a thorough examination of the recent eruption of Mont Pelee. 
Proe. W. O. Crosry and Mr. Irving Adams recently re- 
turned to Cambridge after a summer spent in geological work 
in the Rocky mou.ntain region, calling at Minneapolis and St. 
Paul en route. 
The Locality of the Lansing Skeleton was recently 
visited by Profs. W. H. Holmes, of Washington ; T. C. Cham- 
berlin and R. D. Salisbury, of Chicago, and S. Calvin, of 
Iowa City, Iowa. 
Mr. E. O. Ulrich, assisted i'.y Mr. W. S. Tangier 
SjMiTH is engaged in an examination of several counties in 
western Kentucky for the United States Geological Survey, 
with special reference to the known deposits of zinc, lead and 
fluorspar. 
Prof. F. W. McNair, president of the Michigan College of 
mines, is engaged with Dr. J. F. Harford, of the U. S. Coast 
and Geodetic Survey, in experiments at the shaft of the 
Tamarack mine, Calumet, Mich., designed to determine the 
density of the earth. 
Dr. W. J. McCiEE was elected president of the newly estab- 
lished American Anthropological Association, and Cieorge A. 
Dor^ey, secretary. The ne.xt regular meeting will be held at 
Washington in connection with the winter meeting of the 
American Association for the advancement of Science, 
Dec. 29 to Jan. 3, 1903. 
Columbia University, Gh)L()gical Dicpartment, Pro- 
fessor Grahau recently spent a week in southern Wisconsin 
examining the Hamilton beds of Milwaukee and Niagara beds 
of that vicinitv. In comjianv with state geologist Lane, V. V>. 
Taylor, of the U. S. G. S.. and Mr. li. P. Parmelee, of Char- 
levoix, a week was spent in exploring the r>eaver Island 
group. 
Mr. D. W. Joiin.son, fellow in geology, has passed two 
months in the study of the Cerrillos mountains, New Mexico. 
Professor Kemp recently acconlpanied him for a week in the 
