2 PROCEEDINGS OF WASHINGTON MEETING. 



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Peculiar geologic Processes on the Channel Islands of California (abstract i ; 



by Lorenzt i < r. Yates 133 



Inequality of Distribution of the englacial Drift; by Warren Upham 134 



Effects of Droughts and Winds on alluvial Deposits in New England; by 



Homer T. Fuller .148 



A deep Boring in the Pleistocene near Akron, Ohio; by E. W. Claypole . . L50 



Register of the Washington Summer Meeting, 1891 152 



Session of Monday Morning, August 24. 



The Society met in the law lecture-room of Columbian University at 

 9.45 o'clock a. m., Vice-President G. K. Gilbert in the chair. 



In the absence of Dr. J. C. Welling, President of the University, who 

 was expected to welcome the Society, Acting President Gilbert spoke a 

 few words of greeting, and, in behalf of the Society, welcomed the in- 

 vited foreign guests. 



ELECTION OF FELLOWS. 



The Secretary announced the result of the balloting for the election of 

 Fellows as follows : 



William P. Blake, New Haven, Connecticut. Alining engineer. 



Clarence Raymond Claghorn, B. S., M. E., Birmingham, Alabama. Economic 



geologist and mining engineer ; now working on the geology of coal. 

 David T. Day, A. B., Ph. D., Washington, D. C Chief of division of mining 



statistics and technology, United States Geological Survey. 

 Maj. Clarence E. Dutton, Ordnance Department, U S. A., San Antonio, Texas. 



Formerly of the United States Geological Survey. 

 Toiix Eyerman, Easton, Pennsylvania. Instructor in La Fayette College ; Associate 



editor of the Journal of Analytical Chemistry, and of the American Geologist ; 



now engaged in paleontology. 

 Eugene Rudolphe Faribault, C E., Ottawa, Canada. Field geologist on Geo- 

 logical Survey explorations in Nova Scotia. 

 William Herbert Hobbs, B. Sc, Ph. D., Madison, Wisconsin. Assistant professor 



of mineralogy, University of Wisconsin; Assistant geologist, United States 



< reological Survey. Engaged in the study of crystalline schists. 

 Walter Proctor Jenney, E. M., Ph. I)., Washington, D. C- Mining engineer, 



and Geologist, United States ( reological Survey ; now engaged in general geology 



of zinc and lead deposits of the Mississippi valley. 

 James Putnam Kimball, Ph. D , Washington, D. C Geologist, now engaged in 



private practice. 

 George Edgar Ladd, A. B., A. M., Jefferson City, Missouri. Assistant geologist, 



Missouri Geological Survey ; now engaged in economic geology. 



