128 The American Geologist. Pebrasty, 2a 
PERSONAL AND SCIENTIFIC NEWS. 
Proressor W. B. Scorr has returned to Princeton from 
. his visit to the Argentine Republic. 
THE DEGREE LL. D. was conferred by Rutgers College on 
J. C. Smock, late state geologist of New Jersey. 
Mr. G. N. Knapp, of Stanton, Minn., will be connected 
with the New Jersey survey during 1902, on the Pleistocene 
of that state. 
HuGu MILLER’s PLACE OF BIRTH, Cromarty, has begun a 
movement to erect a museum and library to celebrate the cen- 
tenary of his birth. 
Proressor ALpHEus Hyarr, paleontologist of Harvard 
and Boston universities, died suddenly of apoplexy at Cam- 
bridge, Mass., Jan. 16, at the age of 63 years. 
Mr. J. S. DiLLer gave the presidential address of the Geo- 
logical Society of Washington, Dec. 18, 1901, on the subject: 
“The Wreck of Mt. Mazama,” illustrated by lantern views. 
THE NEW AFRICAN MAMMAL, Okapia johnstoni, was de- 
scribed recently by E. Ray Lankester in a memorir read be- 
fore the Zoological Society of London. According to Prof. 
Lankester the nearest living ally of the okapi is the giraffe. 
Tue NEJED METEORITE, from central Arabia, which fell in 
the year 1280, is described in Science, Jan. 24, by H. A. Ward. 
It was lately procured from the heirs of Mr. James R. Greg- 
ory, at London, and is now in the Ward-Coonley collection 
on deposit at the Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., New York. 
SIBERIAN MamnortH. The expedition sent out by the St. 
Petersburg Academy of Science to obtain the remains of the 
male mammoth discovered in northeastern Siberia is well on 
its return journey. It is stated that the hide of the mammoth 
is in an almost complete state of preservation, and in the stom- 
ach and teeth remains of undigested food were found.—wNat. 
Geog. Mag. 
GEOLOGICAL Society OF WasHiInGTon. At the meeting 
held December 11th, Mr. G. K. Gilbert spoke on ‘*Petrographic 
and geologic notes from Western Utah,” and Mr. Bailey Wil- 
lis on “Geologic notes of the northern Rocky mountains.” 
The ninth annual meeting was held on December 18th, at 
which time Mr. J. S. Diller delivered the presidential address. 
His subject was “The wreck of Mt. Mazama.” 
AT THE LATE MEETING OF THE TEXAS ACADEMY OF 
Sciences, Dr. F. W. Simonds gave a popular illustrated lec- 
ture on “Petroleum,” and read a sketch of the life and work 
of Ferdinand von Roemer, “‘the father of the geology of Tex- 
as.” Other papers were read by Prof. T. U. Taylor on “The 
