134 The American Geologist. August, 1892 
PERSONAL AND SCIENTIFIC NEWS. 
The GtEological Society or America meets in Rochester, IN. 
Y., August 15 and 16, in conjunction with the American Asso- 
ciation for the Advancement of Science. A joint letter from the 
Koyal Society of Canada, and from the "Logan Club" at Ottawa, 
has been addressed to the president and secretary of the Geologi- 
cal Society of America, inviting them to meet next December, in 
Ottawa, the Canadian capital. Ottawa is the leading scientific 
centre in Canada now, and the fact that the Geological Survey 
statf and museum are there will be sufficient earnest of the likeli- 
hood of an enjoyable as well as of a profitable meeting. Several 
fellows have already expi'essed their willingness and desire to 
attend, and are in favor of Ottawa. The matter will come up for 
consideration before the Council of the Society at Rochester. 
President Chamberlin, of the Wisconsin State University, 
has accepted the professorship of geology in Chicago University. 
Dr. Charles E. Beecher has been appointed assistant pro- 
fessor of paleontology at Yale University, New Haven. 
Mr. L. V. PiRSSON, who has been studying the past two years 
in Heidelberg and Paris, will teach petrography at Yale Univer- 
sity during the coming year. 
The American Association for the Advancement op 
Science, under the presidency of Prof. Jos. Le Conte, will meet 
at Rochester, N. Y. , August 10. Provision has been made by 
the local committees for entertainment and numerous excursions. 
M. Alp. Briart in a recent review of the ' ' Limons hesbay- 
ens " in Belgium, arrives at the conclusion that they are separable 
into two parts ( at least ) and that between them occurred an in- 
terglacial epoch of great length. This interglacial epoch he pro- 
nounces the " veritable epogue quaternaire," the ice incursions 
themselves being only episodes. 
The Geological Commission named by the law creating a Geo- 
logical Survey for Iowa met on the 8th of July for the purpose 
of appointing a State Geologist. After considering the claims 
and recommendations of the various applicants they unanimously 
elected Prof. S. Calvin of the State Univer.iity, notwithstanding 
the fact that he was not an applicant and had been doing all in 
his power to secure tlie election of another. 
