RBCORDS OF MEETINGS OF 1906 277 



Summary of Papers. 



Mr. Wilson claimed as a probability that Newfoundland had been the 

 region of another great center of ice dispersion able to send its lobes and 

 glaciers to the edge of the continental shelf and what is more important, 

 southwesterly even so far as Cape Cod and Nantucket, forming the glacial 

 deposits in those regions. 



The evidence in favor of this h}^othesis was grouped under four heads: 

 1) The availability of the region for an ice-sheet of such magnitude with 

 indications of great glaciation, 2) The direction of motion of the ice along 

 the Atlantic coast from Newfoundland to Nantucket, 3) The interlobate 

 region, 4) The nature of the transported material. 



It was shown that all the facts obtainable were best in accord with this 

 h}'pothesis, while even some heretofore unexplainable phenomena were 

 apparently made clear. 



Two maps were shown representing the relation of this ice-sheet to the 

 other glaciated regions, with its extent and the probable direction of motion 

 of its glaciers. 



The Section then adjourned. 



A. W. Grabau, 



Secretary. 



SECTION OF ASTRONOMY, PHYSICS AND CHEMISTRY. 



March 19, 1906. 



No meeting. 



Milton Franklin, 



Secretary. 



SECTION OF ANTHROPOLOGY AND PSYCHOLOGY. 



March 2, 1906. 



Section met in conjunction with the American Ethnological Society at 

 8:15 P. M. at the American Museum of Natural History. 



The minutes of the last meeting of the Section were read and approved. 

 The following program was then offered : 



