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three upper basins. These are the Algonquin and Nipissing beaches. 
No doubt there are weaker lines of similar extent between the horizons 
of these two. But there is none above the Algonquin plane. The 
beaches of lake Warren do not extend northward beyond Alpena, if in- 
deed they reach that place. I found them on the west side of Saginaw 
bay, but no trace of them along the face of the highlands which extend 
eastward from Petoskey past Rogers City nearly to Alpena. The higher 
beaches of the western end of the Superior basin have no extension 
southward over the Green bay area; nor do any of the beaches which 
connect with the Chicago outlet reach as far north as Escanaba. My 
own observations seem conclusive on these points. Lake Warren had 
its outlet westward through the Pewamo channel into the Michigan 
glacial lake, and this emptied through Chicago. But lake Warren 
never extended around the north side of Michigan, nor did it ever in 
elude any part of the Superior basin. Neither the Algonquin nor the 
Nipissing beaches have any connection with the Chicago outlet, nor do 
either of them extend to the Erie basin. Both pass to, or a little below, 
the head of the St. Clair river. 
The month of October was spent in the vicinity of North Bay, Onta- 
rio, and in the Mattawa and Ottawa valleys. Some interesting obser- 
vations were made, but space forbids any account of them here. 
Fort Wayne, Tnd., Feb. 15, 1896. Frank B. Taylor. 
PERSONAL AND SCIENTIFIC NEWS. 
Prof. Alexander Agassiz has gone to Australia to investi- 
gate the Great Barrier reef. 
Dr. Otto Muegge has been appointed professor of mineral- 
ogy in the University of Kcmigsberg. 
A new meteoric iron from Forsyth Co., North Carolina, is 
described by Dr. E. A. de Schweinitz in the American Journal 
of Science for March. 
The St. Petersburg Academy of Science has elected Prof. 
James Hall an honorary foreign member and Mr. C. D. Wai.- 
cott a corresponding member. 
Mr. J. E. Marr, F. R. S., Fellow of St. John's College, has 
been reappointed university lecturer in geology at the Uni- 
versity of Cambridge for a term of five years. 
Prof. Grenville A. J. Cole, has recently issued (through 
Griffin and Co., of London) an interesting volume entitled 
'•Open-air Studies : an Introduction to Geology Out-of-doors." 
I)u. Leidy's delayed posthumous memoir on fossil verte 
brates from the Alachua clays of Florida is now in press and 
will appear as a part of the transactions of the Wagner Kite 
Institute of Science. {Science.) 
Lord Kelvin this year reaches his jubilee as professor of 
natural philosophy in the University of Glasgow. The event 
