134 The American Geologist. August, 1906 
PERSONAL AND SCIENTIFIC NEWS, 
Prof. Ries of Cornell Uninersity has been engaged 
during the summer, on an investigation of the clays and 
molding sands of the Virginia coastal plain. 
W. T. McCourt, Instructor in Economic Geolocs in 
Cornell university, has been studying the peat deposits of 
New Jersey for the N. J. Geol. Survey. 
Mr. H Foster Bain is engaged in a study of the Rocky 
mountain zinc fields for the U. S. Geol. Survey. He will 
visit Colorado, Xew Mexico and other producing territories 
to arrange for the collection of statistics of production for 
the Division of Mineral Resources. 
Professor T. C. Chamberlin has been appointed a 
member of the Illinois Geological Survey Board. The re- 
maining members are ex-officio, governor Deneen and presi" 
dent James of the State university. 
Mr. Bailey Willis returned in July from Europe where 
he had been since February working under a grant from the 
Carnegie Institution. 
Dr. C. W. Haves of the U. S. Geological Survey spent 
July and August in Utah and other western states inspect- 
ing field work. 
Prof. Edward Orton Jr , State Geologist of Ohio, spent 
three weeks in July studying the glacial geology of Longs 
Peak, Colorado. The remainder of the summer he wall 
spend in Massachusetts engaged in editing one of the bulle- 
tins of the state survey. Field work for the Geolpgical 
Survey of Ohio is being carried on by other members of the 
survey. Prof. John A. Bownocker is studying and map- 
ping the Pittsburg coal in eastern Ohio and completing a 
bulletin on the salt fields and industry of the state. Prof. 
Charles S. Prosser is studying the Devonian and Carboni- 
ferous formations of the state and part of the summer will 
be spent on his report on the stratigraphical geology of 
these formations. 
Durtng the Month of Julv Mr. M. L. Fuller and 1\ ( i. 
Clapp of the United States geological survey made a recon- 
naissance trip through Newfoundland and along the coast 
of Labrador to a point north of Hopedale for the purpose of 
comparing the glacial features with those of northeastern 
United States. Several interesting points relating to possi- 
ble pre-Wisconsin deposits, to the origin of the high terraces 
and to the recentness of the last glaciation, were brought 
out. The intention was to go further north, but this was 
impossible because of the presence of unusually heavy pack 
ice along the shore from which the vessel was obliged to 
withdraw after penetrating it for a distance of some ten 
miles. 
