194 The American Geologist. March, 1902 
Missouri.” St. Louis, 1901, followed by a statement of the 
present mining and mineral wealth of that state. 
Fietp CoLtumMBian Museum. The following geological lee- 
tures are in the free lecture course for March and April: Tex- 
as Petroleum, Dr. W. B. Phillips; The Northern Rocky Moun- 
tains, Dr. Stuart Weller; Geological Field work in the Lron 
and Copper districts of the Lake superior region, Prof. U. 5. 
Grant. 
GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF WASHINGTON. At the meeting ot 
January 22, Mr. J. E. Duerden read a paper on the “Develop- 
ment of Septa in Paleozoic Corals ;’’ Mr. C. K. Leith one on 
the “Mesabi Iron Range of Minnesota.” and Mr. Whitman 
Cross discussed briefly the paper of Mr. Willis on stratigraphic 
classification. 
Dr. A. W. G. Wixson, late of Harvard University and the 
Geological Survey of Canada, is at present studying in Europe. 
At a meeting of the Boston Society of Natural History, 
held Feb. 19th, professor W. ©. Crosby presented at greater 
length than has yet been done, arguments to prove the super- 
glacial origin of eskers. 
THE COMPLETION OF THE GEOLOGICAL Map or EvropeE.— 
The following information has just been given by Dietrich 
Reimer concerning the completion of the geological map of 
Europe.— 
The issue of the 24 sheets which are required to complete 
the map of Europe is dependent upon the furnishing of geolog- 
ical materials by the interested governments. So soon as this 
material from Russia, and topographical data of the north 
coast of Africa are forthcoming the remaining sheets will ap- 
pear rapidly one after another. P. F. 
IN THE FEBRUARY NUMBER OF THIS JOURNAL we stated 
that the director of the U. S. Geological Survey had appointed 
a committee to reconsider the rules published by that organiza- 
tion in its Tenth Annual Report. This committee spent several 
days considering the voluminous correspondence submitted to it 
by the geologists of the Survey and others. Good progress has 
been made and a sub-committee is now at work drawing up 
the wording of the new rules according to the minutes of the 
general committee. Later we hope to present the important 
work of the committee in more detail. 
Mr. L. M. PRINDLE is now assistant in Petrography at Har- 
vard University, in place of Dr. E. C. E. Lord. 
In the survey for the more accurate location of the Canadian 
boundary, begun last season, the Dominion government had 
one geological party in the field, the United States three. For 
the former, Dr. R. A. Daly, late of Harvard University, carriea 
the field work to a point a few miles east of the end of the 
