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capable of self-support. At the meeting of Section E he pre- 
sented a paper on The geological position of the Ogishke conglom- 
erate, in which he inclined to consider it as an integral part of the 
Keewatin formation. In 188% he made several lecturing trips, 
viz., Ada, Ohio, Madison University, (N. Y.), Greenville and 
Hastings, Mich., Buffalo, N. Y., Hartford, Ct., and contributed 
various minor papers to journals, including a memorial of Dr. 
Henry 8. Frieze, who had long been his colleague in the Univer- 
sity of Michigan, published in the University Chronicle. 
1890. The amount of work which he accomplished the last 
year of his life, as indicated by the diary and the field-notes 
which he kept, is amazing, <A literal transcript of them would 
still but partially express it, since his regular elass and museum 
and laboratory labors are not given in detail. A man in his state 
of health generally spares himself, by curtailing his daily labor, 
but it was quite the contrary with him. His werk became more 
burdensome and multifarious. He shirked nothing. He did not 
even decline to answer the numerous letters which sought trivial 
information—some of which required several pages. THe lectured 
in Chicago, Bowling Green, Hamilton, St. Paul and Detroit. He 
was several times in Washington, New York or Boston, to attend 
the meetings of the Organizing Committee of the International 
Congress of Geologists, and the Council of the Geological Society 
of America. In the summer he was geologist to the Rocky 
Mountain club, which made an excursion from St. Paul, traveling 
4,971 miles in 13° states and territories, attended the scientific 
meetings at Indianapolis, where he presided over the Geological 
Society of America, projected, and in conjunction with the in- 
terested professors at Ann Arbor, prepared a memorial, accom- 
panied by detailed plans, urging additions to the scientific labora- 
tories of the University, presenting the same before committees 
and before the full Board of Regents, made a geological survey 
of a region near Echo lake in Ontario, on which he based his last 
communication to the Geological Society, ‘last word with the 
Turonian,” made adengthy response to a toast +The University,” 
at a banquet, in Detroit. He was president and director of the 
University Musical Society, president of the Board of the Wes- 
leyan Guild, for which he prepared a pamphlet, giving its consti- 
tution, plan and purposes, president of the Trustees of the Meth- 
odist Episcopal church at Ann Arbor, and was just elected presi- 
