Personal and Scientific J^eios. 223 
PERSONAL AND SCIENTIFIC NEWS. 
Joseph Ewing MacFakland died in Baltimore, Md., Jan. 
23d. He was connected witli the U. S. Geological Siirvej^ and 
had been doing field work in Tennessee. 
The Jouknal of School Geography is the name of a new 
publication edited by Prof. R. E. Dodge, of the Teachers' 
College, New York city, assisted by Messrs, W. M. Davis. C. 
W. Hayes, H. B. Kiiramell, F. M. McMurry andR. deC. Ward. 
It is published at 41 Queen St., Lancaster, Pa. 
Dr. G. F. Becker's paper on " The determination of feld- 
spars under the microscope by the methods of Michel-Le'vy^'' 
which was presented before the Geological Society of Wash- 
ingtoiv Feb. 26, 1896, is to be jDublished in the report on the 
geology of Alaska in the 18th annual report of the U. S. 
Geological Survey. 
The Geological Society of London has made its awards for 
this year as follows: Wollaston medal, W. H. Hudleston; 
Murchison medal and part of fund, H.B.Woodward: Lyell 
medal and part of fund, G.J. Hinde ; Bigsby medal, Clement 
Reid; Wollaston fund, F. A. Bather; balance of Murchison 
fund, S. S. Buckman ; balance of Lyell fund. Joseph Lomas 
and W. J. Lewis Abbott. 
Prof. Johann Auguste Streng died at Giessen on Jan. 9th. 
He was well known for his work in mineralogy and chemistry, 
and from 1867 to 1895 occupied the chair of mineralogy at 
the University of Giessen. It 1877 he published in the Neues 
Jnhrbuch, in connection with J. H. Kloos, an extensive paper 
on the crystalline rocks of Minnesota, Later this paper was 
translated and printed in the llth annual report of the Geo- 
logical and Natural History Survey of Minnesota. 
Sir Archibald Geikie will deliver six lectures on the prin- 
^;iples of geology at the Johns Hopkins University, April 21st 
to 27th. The lectures will be given in the geological labora- 
toiy at 5 p. ra., and a public lecture will be given on the 
evening of April 27th. This lectureship is established in 
memory of the late Prof. G. H. Williams. After the lectures 
arrangements have been made for a four days' excursion 
(April 28th to May Lst). The typical geological l()calities of 
Maryland will be visited and an opportunity will be atforded 
to examine the several formations of the Coastal- plain, the 
Piedmont plateau and the Appalachian region. Special rates 
will be given by the transportation companies to such geolo- 
gists as may desire to go. 
New York Academy of Sciences. 
The Geological Section met Jan. 18 and listened to the pa- 
pers, of which abstracts are given below. Both will apjiear in 
full in the Transactions. 
