Personal and Scie?itific News. 391 
Mr. J. W. Finch, late fellow of the University of Chica- 
go, is meeting with much success in His work as geologist 
of the Woods Investment Com pan}', Victor, Colorado. 
Dr. a. G. Leonard has charge of the geological work 
at the State University of Missouri this year in the absence 
of professor Marbut. 
Prof. Kotora Jimbo, of the faculty of the Imperial Uni- 
versity Tok}'o, Japan, has issued a condensed English re- 
view of the minerals found in Japan, the number of species 
enumerated being 128. The order of listing and the treat- 
ment of the crystal faces are according to the system of 
Dana. The paper is printed in the Journal of the Science 
College of the Imperial University, vol. xi. 
Geological Society of Washington. The ninety-third 
meeting of this society was held on Wednesda}^ evening, 
November 22d. The following papers were presented: 
'•Structural features on the western margin of the Great Ba- 
sin" by F. B. Weeks; "Preliminary notes on the Cape Nome 
gold district, Alaska" b\' F. C. Schrader; "The type section 
of the Pottsville formation" by David White; "The Rose- 
burg folio" by J. S. Diller. 
The fourteenth annual meeting of the Iowa Acad- 
emy OF Science will be held at Des Moines, December 26 
and 27th. As usual a number of geological papers will be 
presented. An evening lecture is being arranged for the 
26th. 
National Geographic Society. Because of the press 
of his duties as hydrographer of the U. S. Geological Sur- 
vey Mr. F. H. Newell has resigned the secretaryship of this 
society. Mr. Joseph Stanle}- Brown, editor of the bulletin 
of the Geological Survey of America, succeeds Mr. Newell 
as secretary. 
The Dept. of Geology at Cornell College, Ia., has 
been given larger space this year, and valuable additions have 
been made to its equipment. It now occupies the second 
lioor of South Hall, including a lecture room, a large and well 
lighted laboratory, a map room, a private laboratory and office, 
and two store rooms. The equipment for physiographic work 
consists of about 1,000 topographic maps and charts and a 
number of relief maps and models. Of these may be mentioned 
the Harvard Geographical Models, and the relief maps of The 
Grand Canyon of the Colorado, Mt. Shasta, the Chattanooga 
District, and the large relief map of the United States, made 
by Howell, of W^ashington. Several hundred photographs and 
over 1 000 lantern slides have been secured recently, and a 
Mcintosh Biunial Stereopticon for projection by means of the 
lime light. In order to stimulate the awakening interest in 
