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PERSONAL AND SCIENTIFIC NEWS. 
Mr. Edward H. Berry, paleobotanist and secretary of 
the Torrey Botanical Club, is engaged in studying the fossil 
flora of Maryland for the Geological Survey of that state. 
His address is "Geological Survey, Johns Hopkins Uni- 
versity, Baltimore, Md." 
Dr. W. B. Dawson, brother of the late Dr. Geo. M. 
Dawson, is making a tidal survey of the Pacific coast of 
Canada. 
Dr. Robert Bell, is making a trip via Skagway to Daw- 
son, in Yukon territory. 
Dr. Joseph Hyde Pratt, of the North Carolina Geo- 
logical Survey, is on an extended trip in Arizona and Mon- 
tana, examining mining properties. 
At Harvard University Messrs. R. Kent and H. N. 
Eaton have been appointed assistants in geology. 
The Next Meeting of the American Association for 
the Advancment of Science will be held at New Orleans. 
It has been ascertained by the permanent secretary that by 
Dec. 29, in the judgment of public health and hospital of- 
ficials, all danger from yellow fever will have disappeared. 
Massachusetts Institute of Technology — It has been 
decided by the corporation of the Institute that the plans 
entertained for some time past for the consolidation, or "co- 
operation" of the Institute with Harvard University, have 
to be abandoned, owing to the late decision of the supreme 
court relative to the land on Boylston street. In a circular 
lately issued by Pres. H. S. Pritchett the friends of the In- 
stitute are invited to hearty cooperation in its future up- 
building. 
Dr. H. W. Fairbanks of Berkeley, California, recently 
made a horseback trip with his wife and little daughter, 
from the Dalles in Oregon to San Francisco, passing over 
the highest ranges of the Sierra mountains, incurring many 
of the hardships and perils of camp life. It was for photo- 
graphing the topographic and geologic features preparatory 
to a new work on which he is engaged. 
Weight of Brontosaurus, From measurements and 
estimates made at Columbia University by Prof. William 
Hallock and W. K. Gregory, upon a restoration of Bronto- 
saurus excelsus made by Charles R. Knight, the saurian 
was found to have had a weight of about 38 tons. The 
mounted skeleton, at the American Museum of Natural His- 
tory, is 66 feet 7 inches long. 
Dr. C. R. J. Laflame, president of the Royal Society 
of Canada has been appointed by the international water- 
