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summer of 1892. Lieutenant Peary will then take a northeast route, 
skirting the coast, but keeping on the unbroken inland ice. As the 
party proceeds, their route will bend to the northward and reach the 
furthest point north of the Greely expedition, From that point an 
effort will be made to reach the northern terminus of the land and 
determine its character, and also the existence of an open polar sea. 
At the same time the Academy of Sciences corps will proceed south- 
ward. Lieutenant Peary states that he will make journeys from station 
to station on snow-shoes and ice-skates or skias, while provisions will 
be transported by Eskimo dogs and by members of the party. It is 
believed by Professor Heilprin and others that the party will reach 
within 350 miles of the North Pole by traveling, it is estimated, about 
1,200 miles to and from the main station. This journey will con- 
sume about three months, including rests, and the daily journey will 
cover from eighteen to twenty miles. He proposes to see if the region 
of the North Pole is of land or water, and hopes to discover the polar 
open sea. 
GEOLOGY AND PALEONTOLOGY. 
The Name Huronian.—Professor Alexander Winchell, in the 
Bulletin of the Geological Society of America, Vol. II., pp. 85-124, 
remarks as follows: 
‘‘ Clearly, the interests of geology'and of truth demand an adjust- 
ment of these conflicting conditions in terminology. If Sir Wil- 
liam Logan unwittingly extended the term Huronian over two systems 
now known to be distinct, that usage cannot be continued. Either 
the name must be restricted to the upper system, or it must be relegated 
to synonymy. We think it may be appropriately attached to the 
upper system. The early Canadian geologists sought a term which 
would cover, first and chiefly, the great quartzites which were found to 
follow the Silurian strata in downward succession. Underneath were 
seen so-called chloritic schists and a slate conglomerate. In the 
region first studied these were seen to rest on crystalline rocks, and 
appeared to fill completely the gap between the Silurian and the 
gnetsses. These strata were all conformable, and evidently constituted 
a system. If it had not been previously named, the Canadian geolo- 
gists conferred a service on science in giving ita designation. 
* Soon, however, older schists than these were described ; hat ance. od 
their structural discordance with these was not aces in the ran. 


