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Geology at the Brooklyn Meetings. The 



Geological Society of America held its sixth 

 summer meeting in Brooklyn, N. Y., August 

 13th to 15th; and the forty-third annual 

 meeting of the American Association for the 

 Advancement of Science was held in the 

 same city, August 15th to 22d. The num- 

 ber of papers presented before the Geological 

 Society was twenty-six, and exactly the same 

 number also were read before Section E (Ge- 

 ology and Geogra|)hy) of the association. 

 This year a few distinctly geographical pa- 

 pers were presented in Section E, notably in 

 contrast with several years preceding, which 

 have had almost exclusively geological pa- 

 pers. One especially timely subject was the 

 Geographic Development of China, Corea, 

 and Japan, by Hon. Gardiner G. Hubbard, 

 President of the National Geographic Society, 

 Washington, D. C. On account of the im- 



portance and increase of work for both geol- 

 ogy and geography, it is proposed that a 

 special section of the association be devoted 

 to each. 



The vice-presidential address of Prof. 

 Samuel Calvin, before Section E, on The 

 Niobrara Chalk, called attention to the ex- 

 tensive beds of chalk in the middle division 

 of the Cretaceous series of the upper Mis- 

 souri Efver region. It has been generally 

 taught in our geological text-books that no 

 true chalk deposits exist in America; but 

 explorations along the Missouri show that 

 strata of chalk, ranging from sixty to ninety 

 feet in thickness, extend from the mouth of 

 the Niobrara to that of the Sioux River, on 

 the west boundary of Iowa. The best out- 

 crops are near Saint Helena, Nebraska. Mi- 

 croscopic examination reveals the same forms 

 of foraminifera, coccoliths, and rhabdoliths 

 which make up the chalk of England and 

 portions of continental Europe. The close 

 identity of conditions in these two widely 

 separated regions was commented on as a 

 fact of great scientific interest. At the same 

 time with the deposition of the much thicker 

 European chalk-beds, far away to the West, 

 beyond the ninetieth meridian, and thus dis- 

 tant more than a quarter of the way around 

 the globe, with an intervening abysmal ocean 

 and a continental mass of land between these 

 areas, there was another clear sea in which 

 the same or very similar microscopic types 

 of life were developed in incomprehensible 

 profusion to make the chalk-beds of Iowa, 

 South Dakota, and Nebraska. 



Papers on the Archaean and PaloBOzoic 

 rocks were presented by J. F. Kemp, C. H. 

 Smyth, Jr., R. S. Tarr, W. P. Blake, E. 0. 

 Hovey, N. H. Darton, Arthur Winslow, C. W. 

 Hall and F. W. Sardeson, C. H. Gordon, C. 

 S. Prosser, N. H. Winchell, and J. P. Smith. 

 Several papers relating to the Mesozoic and 

 Tertiary formations were by H. W. Fair- 

 banks, J. P. Smith, W. H. Dall, and Arthur 

 HoUick. Dr. Dall confirms the Miocene age 

 of the brightly colored and highly inclined 

 fossiliferous strata of Gay Head, at the west 

 end of Martha's Vineyard. Above the Mio- 

 cene beds, however, and unconformable both 

 with them and the overlying glacial drift, is 

 a fossiliferous horizon of Pliocene age. 



The large share of attention which is now 

 being given to the Quaternary era, compris- 



