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Harvey was a native of Cincinnati, and acquired liis love of fossils from 
association with the old school of paleontologists who there enthused all 
who met them with a love of science. He migrated to Texas for health 
and fortune. It was the writer's good fortune iu 1889 to discover him in 
his cottage filled with a rare local collection of the beautiful fossils of 
the adjacent country, and, again, in October, last year, to take to his 
home Prof. Lester F. Ward, under whose direction he collected a most 
abundant and important flora of the Potomac (Trinity) beds, which has 
been studied by Prof. Fontaine, and is now ready for publication. Mr. 
Harvey was one of many local geologists whom the writer has met in 
out-of-the-way places, working for the love of science, enduring the op- 
probrium of scoffing environment, but who, when the final award of 
honor will be given, shall find equal credit with those who, surrounded 
by everv opportunity and luxury, have often accomplished less. 
P. T. Hii.T.. 
PERSONAL AND SCIENTIFIC NEAYS. 
NE^Y Discoveries at ^Iextoxk, Fniini . The discovery of 
three skeletons in this celeln'tited e:i ve was nuule last February ; 
they were unearthed at a dei)th of about Ave feet, which is about 
25 feet below the original floor of 1S72. The remains indicate a 
man of perhaps more that seven feet in hight; perforated teeth, 
shells, etc., were also unearthed. Mr. Vaughan Jennings, F. Gr. 
S. , who visited the spot in March, suggests (Nat. Sry.. i, 272) that 
from a study of the implements found with the remains, the}' 
may belong to the neolithic age, but the skulls indicate an even 
more ancient t^'pe ; however, the author concludes that the fact 
that similar perforated teeth, etc. , have been found in the Dor- 
dogne cave of the same age as the classic drawings on bone, of 
the mammoth and reindeer, strengthens very much, the argu- 
ment for the i)alaeolithic age of the Mentone man. 
Mesozoic Fossils from Central Hi.malava. (Nat. 8ci. i, 
447.) Fossils from India recenti}' examined in Vienna are found 
to conform in a marvelous degree with eastern Alpine species. 
Dr. Diener has formed an exploring party to visit the Himalayas 
for the express purpo.se of studying the fauna thereof with a 
view to comparison with the Austrian- Alps fauna. 
The Greenland Exploring Expedition: The relief expedi- 
tion sent out last summer has returned, bringing with it all the 
meml)ers of the first expedition, with the sad exception of the 
young geologist, John Verhoeff, who was lost while out alone on 
a geological expedition. To <piote .Mr. J*eary, "I have traced 
the northern limit of the interior ice-cap of (Jreenland: I have 
settled in my own mind the northern limit of the mainland of 
