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views from the sea as mere storm-beaten remnants of a once continuous land, wasted 

 into bluffs around their shores by the action of the waves, and all their upper sur- 

 faces planed down by a heavy oversweeping ice sheel and slightly roughened here 

 and there with low ridges and hillocks that alternate with shallow valleys. None 

 of these feature.-, so far as 1 [he] could discover, without opportunity for close ob- 

 servation, showed any traces of local glaciation or of volcanic action subsequent to 

 the period of universal glaciation." 



It is hardly necessary to state that this view of the islands does not accord with 

 my brief resume of their origin and career. 



Told in a sentence or two. the history of the Pribilof islands is this: In post- 

 Pliocene time they were formed by successive outflows of basaltic material ; Saint 

 Paul ami its two tiny companions remain as created, save where destructive and 

 constructive agencies have been and still are at work on the shore margins ; after 

 its creation by a similar volcanic process, Saint < reorge was modified by orographic 

 movement that revealed a portion of the sea floor, and then began the work of 

 annihilation which has since continued. 



The tendency of the evidence gathered is toward a synchronous creation of all 

 the islands of the group, but no indisputable facts upon which to base a conclusive 

 argument could he obtained. 



The last paper of the day was on — 



SOME XEW FOSSIL FISHES FROM THE CLEVELAND SHALE. 



BY K. W. CI.AVPol.i: AND W. CLARK. 



The fossils were exhibited and discussed. 



The following invitation was announced : 



The Fellows of the Geological Society of America are invited, on the 

 part of some of the colleagues of Dr. Orton in the Ohio State University, 

 to lunch at the Columbus Club to-morrow, Thursday, at 12.30 p. m. 



Announcement was again made of the dinner at the Neil House in the 

 evening, and the Society adjourned for the day. 



Session of Thursday, Decembeb 31. 



A letter was read from Professor Edward Orton. in reply to the resolu- 

 tion of Wednesday morning, as follows: 



Columbus, Ohio, Bee. 30, 1891. 

 Professor II. L. Fairchild, 



Secretary Geological Society. 



Columbus, Ohio. 

 My Bear Sir: 



I am deeply sensible of the kindly feelings of the Geological Society of America 



as expressed in the resolutions touching my present disability, which were for- 



