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central France, already mentioned here, three weeks were 
spent with Prof. Penck and his students in Bosnia and adja- 
cent districts; the chief object of stud\- being the carste 
phenomena, which were found to be not due to climatic 
control. Short trips followed with Heim, to an old landslide 
in Lindthal, and with Bruckner to the Tschingel glacier. 
On these and other excursions, the strong effect of glaci- 
ation upon Alpine valle)'s was especiall}- studied. The last 
month of the vacation was partly filled by atrip across Nor- 
way and Sweden, the former with Dr. Reusch. Here the 
topographic effects of glaciation were noted. Near Chris- 
tiania were found matine clays which repeat in great detail 
the features of the coastal plains of Maine. In Sweden, the 
escarpments west of Stockholm and the wall moraines were 
of great interest. The last days were spent in Berlin, at the 
seventh session of the International Geographical Congress, 
which was a marked success. During all the travels of Prof. 
Davis, dealers' collections of photographs were thoroughly 
inspected for landscape and structural views, for the Gard- 
ner Collection of Harvard University 
C.APT. A. W. VoGDEs, United States Fifth Artillery, is 
at San Juan, Porto Rico. 
DuLAU & Co., of 37 Soho Square, London, have issued a 
new catalogue of miscellaneous geological literature, Amer- 
ican and European, which they offer to send to any appli- 
cant, gratis. This company has had a long and extensive 
deal with geologists in America. Its fair and honest treat- 
ment of its patrons has secured for it their confidence. 
The stony meteorite which fell at Allegan, Mich., July 
I2th, 1899, has had a preliminary examination, and is found 
to consist largely of olivine and enstatite, with particles of 
metallic iron sprinkled through it. It is deposited in the 
National Museum, Washington. 
RoBT. T. Hill has just completed an excursion through 
the canons of the Rio Grande river, descending the river for 
500 miles without seeing other human habitations than those 
of the cliff-dwellers. 
Of the Officers of Instruction in the Division of 
Geology at Harvard University, two spent the last summer 
in the field in Europe, two each in Montana, Nova Scotia 
and the Black Hills, and one in Alaska. Of the students 
occupied in research work, two each were in Colorado, the 
Black Hills, and New Brunswick, and one each in Nova 
Scotia and Alaska. 
The Wisconsin Academy of Science, Arts and Let- 
ters has announced its annual meeting for December 28th, 
29th and 30th. It will be held at Madison. It was chiefly- 
through the agency of this academ\- that the Legislature 
