Personal and Scientific News. 133 
PERSONAL AND SCIENTIFIC NEWS. 
Professor W. M. Daxis is in the west, on a second geolog- 
ical trip to the Grand Caiion. 
Prof. H. F. Osborn spent part of June inspecting the work 
of his exploring parties in Wyoming. 
Mr. S. F. Emmons will make a supolementary report on the 
Leadville mining district of Colorado. 
Dr. C. p. Berkey^ of Mitmeapolis, made a professional 
-visit, in July, to mining points in Montana. 
Dr. W. D. Matthew, of the Am. Mus. Xat. Hist., is in 
eastern Colorado hunting for fossil vertebrates. 
At Johns Hopkins University Dr. H. F. Reid has been 
promoted to the professorship of geological physics. 
Dr. U. S. Grant, "of Evanston, was enegaged recently in 
the investigation of certain graphite deposits in Georgia. 
Dr. Jos. Le Conte, professor of geology and natural his- 
tory at the University of California, died June 6, aged 88 years. 
Mr. Geo. H. Eldredge will examine and report on the oil 
regions of California for the United States Geological Survey. 
Mr. J. B. Wood worth is continuing, for the New York 
survey, his study of the problems of submergence in the state. 
The Ontario Bureau of AIines has a fine exhibit of the 
minerals and ores of the Province at the Pan-American Expo- 
sition. 
Dr. E. O. Hovey, of the Am. yius. Xat. Hist., is spending 
several weeks in the Black Hills region collecting Jurassic in- 
vertebrates. 
A Professorship of Geology has been established at the 
University of Colorado, the first appointment being Doctor N. 
1\I. Fenniman. 
Mr. J. S. DiLLER, of the United States Gf'ological Survey, 
will examine the geology of the mining district at Bullv Hill, 
Shasta county, California. 
Professor W. G. Tight, of Denison University, has re- 
signed, to become president and professor of geology in the 
University of New Mexico. 
Tfie Honorable C. D. Walcott was recently given an 
honorary LL. D. at Chicago University, and Mr. Arnold 
Hague a D. Sc, at Columbia University. 
^^Ir. G. D. HuRP.ARn. recently a graduate student at Har- 
vard University, has been appointed instructor in geography at 
the State Normal School, Charleston, Illinois. 
Dr. Gilbert Van Tngen has severed his connection with 
■Columbia University and, during the present season, is engaged 
