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more than two years. Recently the survey has been active 
in the southern peninsula, especially in the Saginaw valle>- 
where much exploration is being carried on for coal and 
other economic products. Volume VI of the survey reports 
will be issued in a few months. It contains large contribu- 
tions by Dr. A. C. Lane. 
MrI Gilbert, of the U. S. Geol. Survey, lectured on 
*'The Story of Niagara," Mar. 2, at the Teachers' College of 
Columbia University, New York. 
The present address of Dr. M. E. Wadsworth, one 
of our editors, is Marquette, Mich. 
Frank Springer, well known as paleontologist in asso- 
ciation with Wachsmuth in the great work latel)- published by 
the Museum of Comp?irative Zoology, Cambridge, on Crinoids, 
is a resident of Las Vegas, New Mexico, and has been large- 
ly instrumental in the establishment of the New Mexico 
Normal University at that place. This institution was latel)- 
dedicated, and Mr. Springer, as president of the board of re- 
gents, pronounced the dedicato'-y address. He was followed 
b\' Pres. Edgar L. Hewett at th,,' head of the University-. 
Amongst the speakers at the banquet was Pres. C L. Her- 
rick of Albuquerque. 
Mr. H.jalmar Lundbohm, of the geological survey of 
Sweden, is in the United States making a comparative stud\- 
of the iron ore deposits, particularly in the lake Superior 
region. Mr. Lundbohm has devoted much study to the ec- 
onomic geology of Sweden and has been especially inter- 
ested in the large deposits of magnetite at Gellivare and 
Kiirunavaara in northern Sweden. He is known personallx- 
to a large number of American geologists, as he participated 
in the western excursion of the International Congress of 
Geologists, 1891, and in the lake Superior excursion of the 
Geological Society of America, 1893. 
Mr. John H. Sears, of Salem, Mass., is engaged in com- 
piling the physiography and geology of Essex count.y, 
Mass., as far as yet determined. His field work during the 
coming season will embrace the fossiliferous sediments of 
Rowle\' and Newbury, and part of the glacial drift of the 
county. 
The Professors of Geoi.ogv in the Universit\- of 
California and in Stanford University have organized a geo- 
logical club, to be called the "Cordilleran Geological Club." 
It is intended to include all the geologists of the Pacific and 
adjacent states, and its -object is b\' occasional meetings to 
stimulate geological work. Whether it shall remain an in- 
dependent organization or shall be affiliated with an\ other 
scientific bod}- is left for future decision. ( ScU'iuc.) 
