336 • The American Geologist. xovcmher. 1902 
PERSONAL AND SCIENTIFIC NEWS. 
]\Ir. p. S. Smith, M. A., has been appointed Assistant in 
Geology at Harvard University. 
Dr. J. P. Iddings, of Chicago University, has been elected 
a foreign member of the Scientific Society of Christiania. 
^Ir. E. C. Eckel, of the Xew York survey, has been ap- 
pointed to a position on the United States Geological Survey. 
Dr. a. R. C. Solwyn for many years director of the 
Canadian Geological Survey, died Oct. 19. at his home in 
\'ancouver, B. C. at the age of 78 years. 
?klR. R. G. jMcConnell, of the Canadian Geological Sur- 
vey has spent the past season on the Canadian Yukon river, 
and is elaborating at Ottawa his notes and maps preparatory 
to his official report. 
Dr. R. a. Dalv. geologist of the Canadian Commission, 
in locating the Canadian international boimdary, recently re- 
turned to Ottawa, having s[)ent the season along the boundary 
line east from the Okanagan river. 
Prof. W. H. Holmes, of the United States National Mu- 
seum, was appointed by the secretary of the Smithsonian In- 
stitute, S. P. Langley, to be 'director of the Bureau of Eth- 
nologv. Prof. Holmes is one of the foremost ethnologists in 
the United States. 
Columbia University. — Xew courses have recently 
been established in paleontology, viz. : Phylogeny of some 
group of invertebrates, involving the principles and methods 
of the Hyatt school ; Invertebrate faunas of geologic hori- 
zons of North America, and a course in stratigraphy over a 
wide area directed to some single horizon, based on the fore- 
going course. The last will involve original research, with 
field work. The department has open^l with a largely in- 
creased list of students. 
Dr. C. H. Gordon, Superintendent of the City 
Schools of Lincoln, Nebraska, has been appointed instructor 
in geology and geography in the University of Nebraska. Dr. 
Gordon retains his position at the head of the city schools and 
will, for the present, carry one course in petrology, and dur- 
ing the spring semester one in geography, the latter designed 
especiallv for teachers or those having teaching in view. In 
addition to this work he will also, during the spring semester, 
repeat his course of lectures on school supervision and man- 
agement given last year. 
