268 The American Geologist. October, 18£5 
ing of September 1st. These cities are situated on the "fall 
line," which is supposed to be the line of a fault of compara- 
tively recent date. Motion along this fault is probably still 
in progress, as evinced by the above mentioned disturbance 
and the great Charleston earthquake. 
Union College has recently issued an announcement of the 
courses oifered by the department of geology and paleontology 
for the present college year. This department is under the 
direction of Prof. Charles S. Prosser. Special attention is 
called to the excellent facilities for the study of localities in 
the immediate vicinity of Schenectady, which have become 
classic in the history of North American geolog3^ 
The Northwest Miners' Association has been temporarily 
organized and a call has been made for the first general meet- 
ing at Spokane, Washington, October 2d and 3d. At this 
meeting it is proposed to eifect a permanent organization and 
to elect permanent officers. It is hoped to enlist for this as- 
sociation the hearty support of all who are engaged, in what- 
ever capacity, in mining in the states of Washington, Idaho, 
Montana and Oregon, and the province of British Columbia. 
The American Institute of Mining Engineers will hold its 
sixty-ninth meeting at Atlanta, Ga., beginning October 8th. 
Several excursions have been arranged, and a special train has 
been engaged to convey members and guests from Washington 
to Atlanta and return. Mr. E. W. Parker, of the U. S. Geo- 
logical Survey, Washington, is in charge of all matters con- 
nected with transportation, and Prof. W. H, Emerson, Georgia 
School of Technology, Atlanta, is the secretary of the local 
committee. 
The third volume of the Proceedings of the Lake Supe- 
rior Mining Institute has recently appeared. The articles 
contained are chiefly on matters pertaining to mining rather 
than geology, such as descriptions of pumping tests in the 
Lake Superior region and in New Jersey, and of hoisting ma- 
chinery at Ishpeming. The only geological paper is one by 
Dr. L. L. Hubbard, the State Geologist, of Michigan, on the 
"Relation of the Vein at the Central Mine, Keweenaw Point, 
to the Kearsarge Conglomerate." This paper, which is illus- 
trated by some interesting sections, is of value to the geolo- 
gist for the clues which it alfords as to the relations which 
subsist between the eastern and the western sandstones of 
Keweenaw point; and has a particular interest for those en- 
gaged in copper mining because it identifies the Kearsarge 
conglomerate and locates the edge of the basin in which it 
was deposited. A concise account of the developments on the 
Vermilion and Mesabi iron ranges, which was prepared for 
the Minnesota meeting of the Institute by H. V. Winchell, is 
reproduced in this volume. 
