160 Scientific Intelligence. 



Everett. The Appendix consists of a memoir of Prof. Worthen, 

 by N. W. Bliss and C. A. White, with the portrait mentioned 

 above, and a general Index to the, whole series of eight volumes, 

 which covers 112 pages. The excellent plates of fossils are largely 

 from drawings by Charles K. Worthen, son of the director. 



4. The Geological Society of America held its second annual 

 meeting on Dec. 29th, 30th and 31st. There were almost 70 

 Fellows present, including representatives from Canada, New 

 Mexico, Texas, Dakota and nearly all of the intermediate States. 

 Fifty-two papers were placed on the programme and forty of 

 them were read. The Society worked very hard, sessions being 

 held in the evenings of the 29th and 30th. 



The condition of the Society is very satisfactory ; there are 

 now 202 Fellows on the roll ; the first volume of the Bulletin, 

 published last year, contains 605 pages with 13 plates and 51 

 maps and figures. The permanent fund already amounts to 

 2,000 dollars and the Society has in hand rather more than 1,000 

 dollars with which to begin the work of the new year. The 

 Society has given good proof of necessity for its existence, not 

 only by affording an opportunity for publication of memoirs but 

 especially by bringing geologists together and enabling them to 

 present views to each other in person. Already many misunder- 

 standings have been changed into understandings ; and the excel- 

 lent results of the meetings are binding geologists together. 



The new officers are President, Alex. Winchell; Vice-Presidents, 

 G. K. Gilbert and T. C. Chamberlin ; Secretary, H. L. Fairchild ; 

 Treasurer, H. S. Williams; Councillors, G. M. Dawson, J. C. 

 Branner, C. H. Hitchcock, E. W. Claypole, I. C. White, J. J. 

 Stevenson ; Editor, W J McGee. 



5. Geology of the Marquette Iron Region : A Correction by 

 T. B. Brooks (communicated). — In my Survey of the Marquette 

 Iron Region {Geology of Michigan, 1873, vol. i, p. 130) I state : 

 " Near the center of U. S. linear survey, Section 25, at the west 

 end of Lake Michigamme, is a large mass, probably a ledge, of 

 light gray quartzite, which may fill, in part at least, what appears 

 to be a blank between the anthophyllitic schist constituting bed 

 XYII and the mica schist (containing garnets, andalusite and 

 staurolite) constituting bed XIX just described. The number 

 XVIII is provisionally attached to this quartzite." 



Want of time and means prevented further investigation during 

 the survey. Last summer I found this quartzite (now in open 

 fields instead of dense forest) to be boulders and probably drift. 

 Although my stratigraphical work has been ignored by one and 

 severely criticized by another geologist, who have since then worked 

 in this part of the Lake Superior region, I believe that it will in 

 the main stand and may yet prove a piece of fairly good work 

 for its time, especially as my w r ork was purely economic and 

 industrial in its aim. This is a mass of metamorphosed crys- 

 talline strata so twisted, broken and faulted as to have been very 

 difficult to make out in the then condition of the country. 



Munich, Germany, Dec. 17, 1890. 



