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Hudson bay, traversing 850 miles of hitherto unexplored 
country. The expedition started from Edmonton May 26th 
and travelled with canoes by way of the Athabasca river, the 
north shore of lake Athabasca, Black river and lake, and a 
river that was followed about 800 miles northward and found 
to empty into the head of the long and deep fjord called Ches- 
terfield Inlet, which was reached about Sept. 1st. On the 
Barren Grounds, through which the last mentioned river flows,, 
plentiful herds of reindeer were seen, sometimes many 
thousands being in sight at once. On the homeward trip along 
the west coast of Hudson bay to Churchill, a distance of 500 
miles, occupying some five weeks up to Oct. 19, the party ex- 
perienced great hardships from cold and lack of provisions.. 
After remaining nearly three weeks at Churchill for recupera- 
tion, the party pushed forward on foot with dog teams to York 
Factory, Oxford House and Norway House, and finally reached 
Selkirk, Manitoba, on New Year's day. The total distance 
traversed with canoes was about 2,200 miles, and on foot and 
by dog team nearly 1,000 miles. 
Prof. I. C. Russell, of Ann Arbor, Mich., gave a lecture on 
"Mount St. Elias and the Malaspina Glacier/' on Friday even- 
ing, Dec. 29, 1893, before the Appalachian Mountain Club and 
invited friends, making an audience of 500 or more, in the Y. 
M. C. A. hall, Boston. The membership of this Club is about 
900. 
W. W. Clendenin, late assistant to Prof. G. C. Broadhead at 
the University of Missouri, has accepted the professorship of 
geology and botany at the University of Louisiana, at Baton 
Rouge. 
To paleontologists. J. B. Bailliere and Son, of Paris, have 
just published a paleontological bibliography, which contains 
the complete titles of more than fifteen hundred works, mod- 
ern and -ancient. It is a pamphlet of 48 pages, octavo, and 
thej 7 offer to send it, gratis, to all geologists who request it. 
The Iowa Academy of Science held its regular annual meet- 
ing at Des Moines on Tuesday and Wednesday, Dec. 26th and 
27th, 1893. 
The following papers, on geological subjects, were read: 
S. Calvin — On the geological position of Beneilitcs dacotensis Mac- 
bride, with observations on the stratigraphy of the region in which the 
species was discovered. 
Wm. H. Norton — Some preliminary notes on the lower Devonian 
strata of Iowa. 
C. R. Keyes— Relations of the Cretaceous formations in northwestern 
Iowa. Derivation of the unione fauna of the northwest. Process of 
formation of certain quartzites. 
H. Foster Bain — Structure of the Mystic coal basin. The deep well 
at Sigourney. 
E. H. Lonsdale — Southern extension of the Cretaceous in Iowa. To- 
pography of the granite and porphyry areas in Missouri. 
