66 TJie American Geologist. Juij, ii69 
Professor E. M. Shepard of Drury college and 
late of the Missouri geological survey has returned from a 
several months' geological trip to the Hawaiian islands, New 
Zealand, and Australia. The special aim of the trip was to 
study active volcanoes and to examine coral islands. The 
glaciers of New Zealand came in for detailed examination. 
Many beautiful photographic views were taken. Some of 
these show the phenomena in a manner that cannot be sur- 
passed. Altogether the trip was a very successful one in 
every respect, and some of the results will doubtless appear 
before long. 
Dr. H. F. Bain has recently returned from a month's* 
geological reconnaisance in the Ouichita mountains of Indi- 
an territory where he had charge of a party of engineers 
and experts who were engaged in making surveys for cer- 
tain devolopment companies. Aside from the strictly eco- 
nomic aspects many interesting observations of special geo- 
logical interest were made. An elaborate report is being 
prepared on the properties examined. 
D. L. Wilder, instructor in the west Des Moines high 
school, and a graduate of Oberlin college, has lately been 
appointed assistant on the Iowa geological survey. This 
season will be spent in northwestern Iowa in stud}- of the 
glacial deposits and the Cretaceous. 
Assistant Professor Curtis F. Marbut of the Miss- 
ouri State University has been promoted to the full profess- 
orship in that institution and has been granted a leave of 
absence for one year. He sails shortly for Europe where he 
will remain until after the International Geological Congress 
at Paris. Most of the year he expects to spend in German 
Universities, but much time will be devoted to visiting clas- 
sical geological localities. 
Prof. J. E. Wolff will spend the next college year 
abroad, leaving early in the autumn. His work in mineralo- 
gy and petrography at Harvard University will be conducted 
during his absence by Charles Palache and Dr. A. S. Eakle.. 
Dr. Palache is at present in Alaska with the Harriman expe- 
dition. Dr. T. A. Jaggar. Jr., of the same institution, has 
again gone west, on problems presented b)' the stratigraph}- 
and intrusives of the Black hills. 
Mr. J. B. WoODWORTH, after completing some areal 
work in Massachusetts, will conduct a party of students for 
geological study in Montana, during July and August. He 
has been engaged during the spring in bringing together 
the results of his studies upon the sand-plains of New Eng- 
land. 
