134 The American Geologist. August, looi 
in field work on the lower paleozoic formations about the Adi- 
rondack mountains for the New York geological survey. 
In western Wyoming oil was accidentally discovered by 
the operators in the construction of a railroad. It naturally 
flowed about five barrels per day. Immediately numerous com- 
panies were incorporated, and large tracts of land were taken 
up for oil prospectors. 
The death of Dr. Theo G. White, an active and able 
}oung- geolog^ist, of New York, July 7, is the cause of deep and 
sincere reg"ret. There is a peculiar sorrow connected with the 
decease of such a youngs man, well equipped for his profession, 
who had a resasonable expectation and promise of many years 
of honorable service. We may present in the future a more suit- 
able sketch of his life. 
The Missouri Geological Survey. — Governor A. M. 
Dockery on May 23d appointed a new board of manag^ers of 
the Bureau of Geolog'y and Mines. On June 14th, the follow- 
ing gentlemen were elected as officers of the board : Prof. E. M. 
Shepard, Springfield, Mo., vice-president ; Dr. E. B. Craighead, 
secretary ; Col. H. H. Gregg, Joplin, Mo., and Dr. W. S. Alice, 
Olean. Mo. The Legislature ordered the removal of the survey 
headquarters to the School of Mines at Rolla. The state geol- 
ogist will soon be appointed. 
Doctor R. A. Daly has resigned his position as instructor 
in physiography at Harvard University, to accept a position 
on the Geological Survey of Canada. The work to which he 
has been assigned is the survey of a belt of country immediately 
adjoining the international boundary, on the Canadian side, 
and extending across the continent. The start was made about 
July 7th, near the foot of Mt. Baker, and Dr. Daly will keep 
pace with the party which is making a re-survey of the bound- 
ary. On account of this call, the expedition planned for 
Greenland and Baffin Land had to be abandoned, although ar- 
rangements down to the last detail had been made for it. 
Mount McKinley. Mr. Robert Muldrow, in theA^afioual 
Geographic Maga::ine for August, gives an account of the high- 
est mountain in North America, 20,464 feet. It is in Alaska, 
situated at the headwaters of the Sushitna and Kuskokwim riv- 
ers. The range is a portion of the Cordilleran system of 
North America. The mountain group is extremely rugged, 
and is covered with snow and ice to within 2,000 or 2,500 feet 
of the sea level, giving source to numerous glaciers. This 
mountain was first named and described in print b}^ Mr. W. A. 
Dickey. Mr. Muldrow in 1898 made triangulation measure- 
ments from six diflferent points. The average, for altitude, is as 
given above, and the latitude is 63° 5' north, the longitude be- 
ing 151° west. 
