BULLETIN OF THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA 

 Vol. 4, pp. 371-458, Frontispiece September 23, 1893 



PROCEEDINGS OF THE FIFTH ANNUAL MEETING, HELD AT 

 OTTAWA, CANADA, DECEMBER 28, 29 AND 30, 1892 



Herman LeRoy Fairchild, Secretary 



CONTENTS 



Page 



Session of Wednesday, December 28 "72 



Report of the Council 372 



Report of the Treasurer 376 



Election of Officers for 1893 378 



Election of Fellows 378 



Memorial of Thomas Sterry Hunt (with bibliography ) v ; by Raphael 



Pumpelly 379 



Memorial of" John Strong Newberry (with bibliography) ; by .1. F. Kemp. 393 

 Memorial of James Henry Chapin (with bibliography) ; by W. M. Davis. 406 

 On the Geology of natural Gas and Petroleum in southwestern Ontario 



(discussion by I. C. White and II. M. Ami) ; by II. P. H. Drained 408 



Note on fossil Sponges from the Quebec Group (Lower Camhro-Silurian) 



at Little Metis, Canada (abstract) ; by J. Wm. Dawson 409 



Evening Session of Wednesday, December 28 411 



A fossil Earthquake (abstract) ; by W J McGee 411 



Session of Thursday, December 2!) 415 



Third Annual Report of the Committee on Photographs 415 



Notes on the glacial Geology of western Labrador and northern Quebec; 



by A. P. Low 419 



Height of the Bay of Fundy Coast in the Glacial Period relative to Sea- 

 level as evidenced by marine Fossils in the Bowlder-clay at Saint John, 

 New Brunswick (discussion by Warren Upham) ; by Robert Chalmers. . 422 

 The supposed post-glacial Outlet of the Great Lakes through Lake Nipis- 



sing and the Mattawa River ; by G. Frederick Wright 42:5 



Notes on the Geology of Middleton Island, Alaska; by George M. Daw- 

 son. 427 



Session of Friday, December 30 432 



Evening Sessi< >n of Friday, December 30 434 



The Huronian Volcanics south of Lake Superior (abstract); by C. It. 



Van Hise : 4:!o 



On two Overthrusts in eastern New York ; by N. II. Darton 4:i(i 



Register of the Ottawa Meeting, 1892 440 



List of < Mlieers and fellows of the < reological Society of America 411 



Index to Volume 4 451 



LVI-1'.ri.i,. GEor.. Sue. Am., Vor„ I, L89'2. (.371) 



