268 The American Geologist, October, 1905 
University of Wisconsin. During the coming Janu- 
ary Mr. Bailey Willis, of the United States Geological Sur- 
vey and Carnegie Institution, will present a course of twelve 
lectures in the Geological Department of the University of 
Wisconsin on the subject of "Continental variations, with 
special reference to North America." The course is given 
primarily for students making geology a major study, and 
is open to such students not regularly registered at this 
university. 
In the year 1904 there were observed in Norway 35 
earthquakes, of which the most severe was on the 23rd of 
October, and more than half of the whole number occurred 
after that date. — Kolderup. 
Dr. U S. Grant returned from Alaska, passing 
through Minneapolis in the early part of September, in time 
to resume his work at Northwestern University. 
DR. W, J. McGee has been appointed director of the 
Public Museum at St. Louis. 
The Lake Superior Mining Institute will hold its 
eleventh annual meeting on tire Menominee range at Ish- 
peming, Mich., October 17, 18 and 19. There will be trips 
by train to Crystal Falls, Iron- Mountain, Escanaba and 
Gladstone. 
Prof. Charles Schuchert of Yale University, has 
returned from a geological trip extending over the ancient 
formations of Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and eastern 
Quebec. 
E. H. Sellards late of the University of Kansas, is in 
charge of the departments of zoology and geology at the 
University of the state of Florida. 
W. J. Miller has been appointed to succeed professor 
C. H. Smyth Jr, in geology, at Hamilton college, and M. W. 
Twitchell has been appointed to the chair of geology at 
South Carolina college, Columbia, S. C. 
Prof. C. N. Gould of the University of Oklahoma, will 
be absent the current college year and his duties will be 
discharged by Prof. E. G. Woodruff. 
Charles W. Brown has been appointed instructor in 
geology and mineralogy at Brown University. 
