260 The American Geologist. April, 1962, 
body Museum, Part. VL, (Am. Jour. Sci., vol. 13, March, 1902. pp. 
197-206, plate VL 
WRIGHT, FRED E. 
A new combination wedge for use withthe petrographical micro- 
scope. (Jour. Geol, vol. 10, Jan.-Feb., 1902. pp. 23-35.) 
PERSONAL AND SCIENTIFIC NEWS. 
THE STUDENTS OF THE UNIversity OF CALIFORNIA held 
memorial exercises in honor of the late Prof. Jos. Le Conte on 
Feb. 26, the anniversary of his birth. An address was made by 
Prof. Thos. R. Bacon. The students of the University are 
collecting funds to assist in the erection of a granite lodge 
which the Sierra club proposes to construct in the Yosemite 
valley, as a memorial to Dr. Le Conte.—Science. 
An AMERICAN MINING AssoctaTIon of the Philippine is- 
lands was recently organized at Manila, the president being J. 
B. Earlt. The present leading object is to cause the extension 
of the mining laws of the United States to the Philippine is- 
lands; the Spanish mining code was practically a failure. 
In the meantime numerous prospectors have located claims, or- 
ganized districts similar to those of the mining states and terri- 
tories of the Union, and are carrying on more or less deyelop- 
ment. They are without legal existence antl recognition, but de- 
sire the extension of the mining laws of the United States to 
the islands. Circulars embodying their sentiments have been 
addressed to the proper officers at Washington. 
Tue AMERICAN PuiLosopuicaL Society. The following 
titles of geological papers were on the printed programme of 
the Philosophical Society at the “general meeting’’ April 3, 4, 
and 5, viz: Systematic Geography, W. M. Davis; The upper 
Cretaceous and Lower Tertiary section of Central Montana, 
Earl Douglass ; Origin of the Oligocene and Miocene deposits 
of the great plains, J. B. Hatcher; On the Molluscan fauna ot 
the Patagonian formation, Dr. H. von Ihering; Evolution and 
Distribution of the Proboscidea in America, H. F. Osborn ;. 
AT THE MEETING OF MARCH 12, OF THE GEOLOGICAL So- 
ciety oF WaAsHINGTON, the following papers were presented: 
Lithologic phases of the upper Carboniferous of Kansas, Indian 
Territory, and Oklahoma, by G. I. Adams; Clarence King’s 
views of Catastrophism and Uniformitarianism, S. F. Emmons; 
Gold-bearng quartzytes of eastern Nevada, E. B. Weeks: 
Notes on a (hitherto undescribed) meteorite from Admire, Kan- 
sas, G. P. Merrill. 
