540 PROCEEDINGS OF NEW YORK MEETING. 



in Miocene strata surrounded by numerous characteristic Miocene fossils. This was 

 referred to by Emmons in 1868.* 



Bucb comminglings of different faunas are not unknown in other regions and from 

 other formations; but the writer knows of m> instance where the occurrence is so 

 marked or wbere, from the great number of fossils, the evidence is so undoubted. 



The Cape Pear river region presents many other problems of geological interest that 

 require more extended Btudy before judgment can be passed upon them. These, to- 

 gether with other questions connected with the early Tertiary of the Coastal Plain, the 

 writer is now engaged in investigating. 



The next paper read was entitled — 



NOTE OH THE PRE-PALEOZOIC SURFACE <>K THE Ai:< III AN TERRANES OF 



C LNADA. 



I'.V ANDREW C. I.AWsov. 



The paper was discussed by J. W. Spencer. It is published among the 

 memoirs, formiDg pages 163—174. 



The nexl paper on the programme was — 



BTRUCTURE AND ORIGIN OF GLACIAL BAND PLAINS. 



li V WILLIAM MOKIUS DAVIS. 



It was read by title, the author yielding his time in order that there might 

 be more time for discussion. This paper is published among the memoirs, 

 pages L95-202, plate 3. 



The Society then took a short recess. 



Alter recess, Vice-President A. Winchell occupied the chair. In the 

 absence of the author, Mr. J. 1>. Tyrrell read the following paper: 



GLACIAL FEATURES O] PARTS OF THE YUKON A.ND MACKENZIE BASINS. 



KV K. (i. Me. (>N\ KM. 



The following note-, which I have endeavored to make as brief as possible, on the 

 more salient glacial features of part- of the Yukon and Mackenzie basins, were ob- 

 tained while on a hasty geological reconnaissance in the north in the summers of i^ s T 

 and i- 1 -- The route travelled on this occasion followed the main water-courses of 

 the country. Starting from the mouth of Dease river, west of the Rocky Mountain-. 



in hit. 60 N the Liard was followed in iU stormy cour astward through the 



i: • ke - to its junction with the Mackenzie in the low lands east of this range. Prom 

 • Simpson, at the mouth of the Liard, I ascended the Mackenzie and it* continua- 

 tion, Slave river, to I Smith, and then, turning northward, descended Slave river 



logy of North Carollnn by E. Bmmnnn, 



