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surrounding country we examined houses near the crater whose 
heavy tile roofs had been shaken off and broken on the ground. 
We had been “safer” at the bottom of the crater than if we had 
been on the surface of the country near the lake. After the earth- 
quake was over I noted that the water in the lake had risen toward 
my feet only about one foot. J. CRAWForD. 
Managua, Mar. 31. 
VOLCANOES AND EARTHQUAKES IN NICARAGUA. Lava has_ been 
flowing from the cone of Assosky—a part of the volcanic mass Mo- 
motombo—in Nicaragua, since the earthquakes on 24th March, 1902, 
according to weliable reports since communication interrupted 
during the latter part of “samune saute” (holy wevk), has been re- 
established. The chief cone of Momotombo at the western margin 
of lake Managua, continues to emit clouds of gases and vapors. 
Matagalpa people declare they never before felt an earthquake in 
that part of Nicaragua. However, there are many Tertiary, large 
fissures now filled with cementing “gangue” in that part of this 
country. Those two earthquakes on 24th March 1902 took an un- 
usual direction and had a strange south of east breadth for spherical 
and circular waves of earthquake force. The usual progress of 
such waves in Nicaragua has been west of north and south of east 
along near to the Pacific coast, but the waves on the 24th of last 
month progressed east of north for more than 250 miles across Nic- 
aragua into the Caribbean sea, and west of south into the Pacific from 
the r origin beneath Momotombo. An inter-oceanic canal acrose 
Nicaragua in the proposéd canal route would have felt only a rather 
moderate force excepting it was strong about “Breto” the proposed 
Pacific harbor to the proposed canal. 
Very respectfully and truly, 
April 2, 1902. J. CRAWFORD. 
PERSONAL AND SCIENTIFIC NEWS. 
Pror. S. W. Wittiston has been elected head of the de- 
partment of paleontology at the University of Chicago. 
Drs. T. A. JAGGAR AND E. O. Hovey have also sailed to 
the West Indies for the purpose of examining the phenomena 
of the late eruptions. 
MoHAWKITE has been mined as a copper ore and 170 tons 
have been sold, netting about $75 per ton. It occurs in the 
copper district of lake Superior accompanying the main lode 
of the Mohawk mine. 
A BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICE OF CLARENCE Kino, by R. W. 
Raymond, James T. Gardner, S. F. Emmons and J. D. Hague, 
