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the subject of gold and silver production at the late meeting of 
the National Academy of Sciences, the annual production of 
gold in the United States is already past its maximum. It is 
now about thirty millions of dollars, that of Europe being 
about the same. 
Dr. a. E. Foote of Philadelphia, who has spent the 
summer in London in attendance at the American Exhibition, 
will shortly return with a varied and extensive collection of 
minerals and fossils obtained in different parts of Europe. 
Extinct Peccary in Michigan. In the spring of 1887, 
the University of Michigan received a quantity of bones of the 
extinct (Platygonus conifressus, discovered in Ionia county. 
Examination showed that they represented five individuals, and 
that of one skeleton nearly all the parts had been preserved. 
The cranium was complete; there were teeth, 31; vertebras, 
complete series, 29; sacrum, second caudal and two innominata, 
4; ribs, 27; parts of anterior extremities, 8: of posterior, 26; 
total, 126 bones. Of a second skeleton, there were 70 bones; 
of a third, 57; of a fourth, 37; and of a fifth, 4. Grand total, 
294. The remains were crowded together in a deposit resem- 
bling loess — but whether loess or not, it was not peat, but quite 
an upland formation, and associated with modified drift. The 
first skeleton is probably the completest knovs^n; and will be 
fully described and illustrated by professor Alexander Winchell. 
The four skeletons have been arranged, and are on exhibition 
in the museum of the University of Michigan. 
Mr. Warren Upham of Somerville, Mass. has com- 
pleted, for the United States geological survey, the field-work 
of his examination of lake Agassiz, an ancient body of water 
that occupied portions of Minnesota, Dakota and Manitoba as 
one of the incidents of the retreat of the continental glacier. 
Mr. Upham began this examination for the Minnesota state 
survey, and has completed it under the auspices of the U. S. 
and the Canadian surveys. 
The secretary of the American committee of the In- 
ternational Congress of Geologists issued a call for a meeting 
of the committee at New Haven, Conn., Dec. 29th, for the 
purpose of receiving the reports of the various sub-committees, 
preparatoi-y to their submission at the London Congress next 
summer. 
The "swindling Geologist." We hear again of the 
scientific swindler who has imposed upon the credulity of so 
many geologists and others in Minnesota, Iowa, Illinois, Ohio 
and other states. His personal appearance and methods were 
fairly described in Science this year in the numbers for Jan. 14 
and June 17 and 24. But for all this, he appears to have been 
operating very successfully among the colleges of New York 
