Personcd and Scientific News. 75 
V. Proceedings of Scientific Laboratories. 
Bull, of the Department of Geology, Univ. of Cal., contains: The 
Geology of Carmelo Bay, A. C. Lawson; The Soda-Rhyolite north of 
Berkeley, Chas. Palache. 
PERSONAL AND SCIENTIFIC NEWS'. 
Henry William Crosskey, LL. D., F. G. S. — In the death of 
Rev. Henry William Crosskey, who died Oct. 1, 1893, at 
the age of 67, the world loses at once a fruitful worker in 
various lines of scientific investigation, a profound theologian, 
and a courteous Christian gentleman. At the time of his death 
Mr. ( 'rosskey had been for many years pastor of the Unitarian 
church in Birmingham, England, over which Priestley was 
pastor at the time of his discovery of oxygen. Dr. Crosskey 
has well maintained the scientific reputation of the pastorate 
so brilliantly begun by Priestley. Dr. Crosskey was high 
authority on the geology of the glacial epoch, being specially 
well versed in the marine fossils pertaining to the epoch. He 
had published frequent communications upon the subject in 
the Transactions of the Geological Society of Glasgow, the 
Proceedings of the Birmingham Philosophical Societ} 7 , and in 
other places. He has been for some time a member of the 
Boulder Committee of the British Association, and was active 
in promoting the interest of the Northwest of England Boulder 
Committee. His interest was to such an extent enlisted in 
professor H. Carvill Lewis's glacial investigations in England 
that after Lewis's death he carefully edited his field notes 
which Mrs. Lewis is soon to publish. Dr. Crosskey's health 
suddenly failed something over a year ago; but after a pro 
longed stay on the continent, he returned to his work appar- 
ently much improved. The appearance, however, was decep- 
tive, and the end came sooner than was expected; hut he has 
left his permanent mark upon the discussions relating to one 
of the most absorbing subjects of scientific investigation. 
At the meeting of the Minnesota Academy ok Naturai 
Sciences, held December 20th, the following papers were pre- 
sented: 1. Preliminary remarks on the rodent Dipodomys 
ordii, by the President, Dr. II. L. Osborn. .!. Notes on the 
anorthosites of northeastern Minnesota, by Mi'. A. II. Kll't 
man' These rocks, with the exception of those at Carlton 
peak, described by Lawson (Bull. No. 8, Geol. and Nat. !li-t. 
Survey of Minn.), were stated to he entirely detached frag- 
ments, of ten of enormous size, imbedded in the Keweeiiawan 
lavas, and as such they are not in place and consequently do 
