. The Pan-American geologist. owa, was found by Dutton to be about three miles per sec-ond. The geological map of Europe, which has been undercourse of preparation by a committee of the InternationalCongress of Geologists since 1881, contains 4-9 sheets, of whichsix are now ready for issue, including Scandinavia, northernGermany, and parts of France, Belgium and Poland. It isexpected that the next ten sheets will be issued within a year,to include the British Isles, France, Spain and Portugal, Italy,and Switzerland. In the drift-covered area of northern andnorthwestern Europe, the bed-rocks, w
. The Pan-American geologist. owa, was found by Dutton to be about three miles per sec-ond. The geological map of Europe, which has been undercourse of preparation by a committee of the InternationalCongress of Geologists since 1881, contains 4-9 sheets, of whichsix are now ready for issue, including Scandinavia, northernGermany, and parts of France, Belgium and Poland. It isexpected that the next ten sheets will be issued within a year,to include the British Isles, France, Spain and Portugal, Italy,and Switzerland. In the drift-covered area of northern andnorthwestern Europe, the bed-rocks, where their distributionis known, will be shown by thin bands of color over the colorsfor the Quaternary formations. The subscription price forthe entire map is $20, but this may be paid in instalmentsas the successive parts are issued, the proportion for the firstpart being $ Subscriptions must be sent to DietrichReimer, Berlin, before the close of this j^ear, after which theprice will be increased.—Nature, Sept. 20. A. 7— e^yf The American XIV, Plate X. THE AMERICAN GEOLOGIST. Vol. XIV. DECEMBER, 1894. No. 6. SKETCH OF DR. JOHN LOCKE. By N. H. Winchell, Minneapolis, Minn. (Plate X. Portrait.) Fifty years ago the person of John Locke, of Cincinnati,was a familiar object to the higher circles of science in thatcity. No less familiar to the geologists of fifty years ago wasthe personality of his genius and the power of his industriouspen. As a geologist, however, his career was short. He re-turned to the medical profession, and secondarily to physicsand astronomy. His chief laurels will always be found in thecontributions which he made to other sciences, yet as an orig-inal contributor to geology he was associated with Owen,Hall, Shumard, Whittlesey and Foster. Born Feb. 19, 1792, at Lempster, N. IL, he spent his boy-hood at Bethel, Maine, where his father was proprietor ofLockes mills, still known.* Here he took much interest inthe machinery of the mill a
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