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vicinity of a peat bed west of Osseo, Mich.* In June he delivered 
the commencement address at Ogden College, Bowling Green, Ky. 
and on June 24th was at Sault St. Mary, Mich., where he entered 
onan examination of the original Huronian region under the 
auspices of the Minnesota survey. At the banquet at the semi- 
centennial of the University of Michigan he represented the 
University of Bologna, ina brief address which is incorporated in 
the published volume devoted to the occasion, 
On the Minnesota Survey he spent another season of arduous 
field-work. The observations which he made he considered very 
important, and they furnished the basis of several communica- 
tions to scientific periodicals. The plan of the season carried 
him not only over the original Huronian area, but also over the 
iron regions of northern Michigan and Wisconsin, and finally into 
the area of the Animikie in northern Minnesota. He entered with 
great zest into the study and discussion of practical .questions 
touching the stratigraphic relations of the older terranes, and his 
rapid noting of inspection carefully made in the field atforded a 
vast mass of data the discussion of which, in their full and final 
scope, he was never able to complete. July 19 he gave a public 
lecture at Ishpeming, Michigan, on Hro/ution, and Dec. 26, he 
read a paper before the Society of Naturalists at New Haven, 
Connecticut. 
188s. He united with several other geologists in the establish- 
ment of the mertean Geologist, the first number of which 
appeared hefore Christmas, 1887, and throughout all its volumes 
muy be seen the evidence of his zeal in its behalf. 
He laid plans now to undertake the thorough examination and 
discussion of the data of the Archean rocks. He not only pro- 
posed to investigate their field-relations, but their petrographic 
characters. Ife supplied himself rapidly with the necessary 
literature and apparatus. Although the undertaking was vast, 
and his health was precarious he entered upon the subject with 
the thoroughness and ambition of a man not yet out of his third 
decade. A new field of science was opened before him, and with 
the undaunted front which he always bore before such difficulties 
he resolutely attacked its strongest redoubts. Tle was annoyed, 
however, by applications for lectures and popular articles. These 
he now mostly declined—only appearing before the Brooklyn 
*Mentioned in the Amersean Geologist, vol. 1, p. 67. 
