440 The American Geologist. June, 1894 
An expedition to Greenland, uncles the command of Dr. F. 
A. Cook, the ethnologist of the Peary expedition, will sail 
from New York about June 25th, expecting to reach Melville 
bay mid the Peary headquarters about a month later. Prof. 
G. F. Wright of Oberlin, ()., Prof. 15. C. JilJson of Pittsburg, 
Pa., and Mr. Dove of Andover, Mass., will go with the expedi- 
tion, to devote a month or more to explorations of the borders 
of the Greenland ice-sheet. On their return it is expected to 
reach New York about Sept. loth. 
Mi:. Charles R. Keyes, late assistant geologist of [owa,has 
been appointed state geologist of Missouri, in place of Arthur 
Win si aw. 
Dr. Joseph de Szabo, the distinguished geologist and pe- 
trographer, professor in the University and president of the 
Geological Society of Budapest, Hungary, died at his home in 
that city April 10th, 1804. in his 73rd year. 
The death of Mi;. Charles S. Beachlek of Crawfordsville, 
Ind.. which occurred April 5 at his home, deprives the State 
of Indiana of one of her most promising young geologists. It 
was due to a complication of diseases affecting the heart and 
lungs. He had been known for some time as an industrious 
and discriminating local student of the geology of Indiana. 
and as a collector of fossils from the Lower Carboniferous. 
Several of his papers have been published in the Geologist, 
others have appeared in the American Naturalist, and his 
latest was in the Journal of Geology. lie was carefully lay- 
ing the foundation for a successful if not a brilliant career as 
an American geologist. 
We save the further sad intelligence of the death of Mr. 
VY. II. Scotield, of Cannon Falls, Minn., which occurred at his 
home in April. He had been a diligent collector of the 
Lower Silurian fossils in his neighborhood for many years, 
and had a wide correspondence with the palaeontologists of 
this country. He had aided the Minnesota Survey in the 
preparation of Vol. Ill of the final report soon to be pub- 
lished, and is joint author with Mr. LTlrieti of a chapter on 
the Gasteropoda of the Lower Silurian of Minnesota. Origi- 
nally a teacher, he engaged later in mercantile affairs, and 
went to the quarries and the bluffs as recreation from busi- 
ness. He was mayor of Cannon Falls. He took great inter- 
est in the construction of the new high school building, just 
completed, of which he was the guiding, inspiring and con- 
trolling spirit. He declined nomination to the last state 
legislature of Minnesota, his brother being nominated and 
elected in his place. He was sympathetic in his nature, and 
respected and even loved by every citizen. At his funeral the 
whole community was in grief. 
