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Nicollet, before given by professor N. H. Winehell, (in Bulletin G. S. 
A., vol. xii, p. 122, February, 1001) to a glacial lake that covered the 
sites of Leech, YVinniliignshish, and Cass lakes, in Minnesota, near 
the source of the Mississippi river. Professor Winehell, when my 
article was published, was absent, and at his return he called my at- 
tention in the duplication. The name given by him is in honor of 
Joseph Nicolas Nicollet, while that proposed by me commemorates Jean 
Nicolet, who lived two hundred years earlier and was the first white 
explorer in Wisconsin. Therefore, I. wish to suggest, for discrimina- 
tion of these similar names, that the Wisconsin glacial lake, described 
and named by me, be called Lake Jean Nicolet. Warren Upham. 
St. Paul, Minn., October 10th, 1903. 
PERSONAL AND SCIENTIFIC NEWS, 
Frank S. Mills has accepted the professorship of geology 
at St. Lawrence University, Canton, New York. 
W. H. Dall is about to enter upon the study of the Pacific 
coast Tertiary, having substantially finished the Atlantic coast 
Tertiary. 
Dr. F. A. Wilder, late state geologist of North Dakota, 
has accepted a professorship of geology in the State Universitv 
of Iowa. 
E. R. Cummings, Ph.D., has been appointed acting heaq 
of the department of geology at the Universitv of Indiana, av 
Bloomington. 
Dr. A. G. Leonard, assistant state geologist of Iowa.. 
has accepted the position of professor of geology in the Uni- 
versity of North Dakota. 
Edward Hoit Nutter has recently accepted the associate 
editorship of "Mineral Wealth," monthly mining and engineer- 
ing journal of northern California. 
Director C. D. Walcott was recently in Minneapolis in 
conference with President Northrop of the State University on 
aome educational interests of the survey. 
Professor J. A. Udden has returned to Rock Island, where 
he will continue lus former work-, having been engaged tempor- 
arily on the Texas University Mineral Survey. 
Professor E. C. Perisho, of the Platfeville (Wisconsin) 
Normal School, has been elected professor of geolqgy in the 
State University of South Dakota and also state geologist. 
James M. Hyde, formerly curator of the California State 
Mining Bureau Museum, San Francisco, has recently been ap- 
pointed Assistant Professor of Geology and Mining in the Uni- 
versity of Oregon. 
Dr. II. I'. Kummel, state geologist of New fersey, is dan- 
gerously low with typhoid fever al Lake-Side hospital, Milwau- 
