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Prof. F. W. Speru, of the Michigan College of Mines, con- 
ducted a class of 35 students in the ircni mining district of 
northern Michigan. 
Prof. Paul Goodf, of the Normal School at Charleston, 
111., has heen appointed instructor of geog-raphy at the Cniver- 
sit\' of Pennsylvania. 
The proposed EXPEDrnox to (Greenland and Iceland, un- 
der the guidance of Dr. R. A. Daly, during the summer of i()Oi, 
has been abandoned b^' him. 
Cornell College, Iowa, conferred the degree of LL. D. 
on Mr. W. J. McGee of the Bureau of Ethnology, Washington 
at the late Commencement. 
Dr. Bruce Fink of Upper Iowa University has been elect- 
ed professor of geology at Drake University, Des l\T(iines, 
Iowa. 
Dr. E. S. Ricgs, of the Field^ Columbian Museum, is in 
\V}oming exploring for fossils. 
Dr. C. H. Gordon is engaged on the ^Michigan .Geological 
Survey near Port Huron. 
Prof. W. M. Gregory is at work on the same survey in 
Arenac county. 
The Michigan Miner, published at Saginaw, devoted the 
issue for July i, almost exclusively to the coal mining industry 
of Michigan. 
Prof. W. B. Scott, of Princeton university, started recent- 
ly for the Argentine Republic for the purpose of scientific in- 
vestigations in that country. 
Prof. V. S. Grant, of the Northwestern L'nivcrsity, 
Evanston, 111., has recently spent several weeks in investiga- 
tion on the Mesabi rang'e. 
Dr. a. W. Grabau has been api)ointed lecturer in Paleon- 
tology at Columbia University. The instructorship in Tufts 
college, which he has left, is not to be filled for the coming 
vear. Dr. Hollick retains the j^aleobotany, and w\]\ have his 
headquarters in the Botanic Garden. 
Dr. Wm. B. Phillips has been appointed director of the 
reorganized Texas geological survev. He will make early 
examination and report on the petroleum basins of the stale 
and on the trans-Pecos district. 
The Missouri School of Mfnes at Rolla has been con- 
sideralily strengthened by liberal approi)riations by the last 
state legislature. The scope of the institution will be ex- 
tended, and new buildings are to be erected. 
Prof. T. C. Russell, of the University of IMichigan. has 
been elected state g-eologist of New Tcrse\', rvVt' T. C. .Smock, 
resigned last year, and has acce])ted conditionallw lie will 
s|)en(l the summer of i<;oi in Idaho, in the service of Ihe l^nil- 
