364: The American Geologist. May, 1897 
PERSONAL AND SCIENTIFIC NEWS. 
Mk. T. a. Rickard, mining engineer and metallurgist, of 
Denver, lias been reappointed, by Gov. Adams, State Geologist 
of Colorado for a second term. 
Dr. William John Sollas, F. R. S., professor of geology 
in the University of Dublin, has been elected to the chair of 
geologj^ at Oxford, which was held b}'" the late Prof. Green. 
Prof. A. Lacroix of Paris reports an abundance of law- 
sonile as a constituent of saussurite gabbros and certain 
glaucophane schists of Corsica. He will present a note on 
this subject in the next (No. 3 of vol. 20) Bulletin of the 
French Society of Mineralogy. 
The Pennsylvania State College has erected on its 
grounds a "geological polylith" composed of a large number 
of blocks of the various building stones of tlie state. The 
monument is intended to exiiibit these building stones and to 
furnish a means of noting the effects of the atmosphere on 
them. Thin sections and analyses of the various stones are 
preserved for reference. 
At a meeting held April 13 the Academy of Natural 
Sciences of Philadelphia conferred the HajT-den Memorial 
Award for 1897, consisting of a bronze medal and the interest 
of the special endowment fiuid, on Prof. A. Karpinski, the 
chief of the geological survey of Russia, in recognition of 
the value of his contributions to geological and paleontolog- 
ical science. 
Within the past month American geology has suffered the 
loss by death of two workers. Dr. Jos. F. James, at Hingham, 
Mass., March 29, and Prof. Edward D. Cope, who died April 
12th at Philadelphia, Penn. The former was known for his 
numerous contributions to the geological literature of the 
countr}^, and the latter for his contributions to the vertebrate 
paleontology of America, as well as the long-time editor-in- 
chief of the American jSTatnralisL Appropriate sketches of 
these geologists will be given in future numbers of this 
journal. 
Dr. Charles R. Keyes informs us that as evidence of its 
appreciation of the work of the Missouri Geological Survey the 
General Assembly of that State recently passed the bill provid- 
ing for the support of the bureau without a dissenting vote in 
either house. Inasmuch as this was the only bill carrying an 
appropriation that was not cut either in committee or on the 
floor of the houses, the inference is clear that at least one State 
legislature, even in troublesome and depressing times when the 
spirit of "retrenchment and reform" is abroad, did not con- 
sider that the geological survey was a place wherein it would 
be possible to legitimately economize, or that a survey is a 
