328 2'Iie American Geoioyi'i: .Nxvombcr, isa") 
Mr, KuwrN Goodwin, a graduate of the School of Mines of 
Columbia College, has been appointed professor of mining and 
gajlogy in the University of Idaho at Moscow, Idaho. 
TiFK lilllTISH ASSOCIATIOX FOIt THE ADVANCEMENr OP SciEXCE 
will hold its meeting for 1896 in Liverpool. In 1807 the As- 
sociation will meet in Toronto by spacial invitation from that 
city. 
Sir William Dawson, in the October number of the Geolog- 
ical Magazine, presents the lirst of a series of papers entitled 
"Review of the Evidence for the Animal Nature of Eozoon 
Canadense.'' 
Prof. Edward W. Claypole, of Buchtel College, has re- 
turned home after a visit to England, during which he at- 
tended the meeting of the British Association for the Ad- 
vancement of Science at Ipswich. 
Mr. a. H. Elptman, of the University of Minnesota, has re- 
turned from a brief trip along the nortli shore of lake Superior. 
The special object of this trip was an examination of some of 
the well known anorthosites of the Keweenawan. 
The Mexican Geological Commission, of which A. del Cas- 
tillo is director, has recently issued a pamphlet of 48 pages, 
with plates and a geological map, entitled "Scientific Expedi- 
tion to Popocatepetl," by Jose G. Aguilera and Ezequiel 
Ordonez. 
Dr. A.E, Fgote, of Philadelphia, died at Atlanta, Georgia. 
October 11th. In 1876 Dr. Foote began to deal in minerals 
and scientific books and since then his business has grown to 
large proportions. The business will be continued under the 
management of Mr. Warren M. Foote. 
James Carter, F. R. C. S., F. G. S., of Cambridge, England, 
died on August 31st. He was recognized as an authority on 
the fossil Decapod Crustacea; for some time he was engaged 
in collecting materials for a monograph on that group, and 
has left his manuscript in an advanced state. 
Prof. John Milne, the well known seismologist, announces 
that he has established a small station at Shide Hill House, 
Shide, Newpoert, Isle of Wight, for the recording of earth- 
qu'akes having an origin in distant localities. Communica- 
tions for the Transactions of the Seismological Society and 
for the Seismological Journal should be sent him there. 
Mr. Warren Upham, who has been engaged during the past 
half year as librarian of the Western Reserve Historical Soci- 
ety in Cleveland, Ohio, has accepted a similar position as li- 
brarian and secretary of the Minnesota Historical Society in 
St. Paul, to enter on his duties there during the present month. 
This library is in the State House and has about 60,000 vol- 
umes, including sets of all the newspapers published in Min- 
uisota from their beginnings. 
