326 Hie American Geologist. November, isyit 
was recently induced to establish the f)resent flourishing 
Geological and Natural History Survey of that state. The 
society itself has issued twelve volumes of its transactions. 
These contain many papers on the geology of the state. 
This State Academy is one of the most active and useful in 
the country. 
The American Society of Naturalists will hold its 
annual meeting at Yale University, New Haven, December, 
28th. There will be an interesting discussion of the "Posi- 
tion that Universities should take in regard to investigation." 
The Family of the late John Simkins, who was 
congressman from Massachusetts, and'a graduate of Har- 
vard University, have given $20,000 to the Lawrence Scien- 
tific School of the University. The fund will be used to 
equip the mining and metallurgical laboratories, and a 
bronze memorial tablet will be placed in one of the rooms. 
Science. 
Dr. Edward Orton of the Ohio State University, and 
state geologist of Ohio, died of paralysis at Columbus, O., 
October i6th. An appropriate sketch of his life will appear 
in a later number of The Geologist, 
