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ford Dean was elected Chairman, and Professor H. E. Crampton 

 Secretary for the coming academy year, 



Henry E. Crampton, 



Secretary. 



SECTION OF GEOLOGY AND MINERALOGY. 



March 17, 1902. 



Section met at 8:20 P. M., Dr. A. A. Julien presiding. 



The minutes of the last meeting of Section were read and 

 approved. 



This being the annual meeting of the Section, the first busi- 

 ness of the evening was the election of officers for the ensuing 

 year. Professor R. E. Dodge nominated Prof J. J. Stevenson 

 for chairman and Dr. E. O. Hovey for secretary. On motion 

 of George F. Kunz, W. H. J. Sieberg was directed by unani- 

 mous vote of the Section to cast one affirmative ballot for the 

 nominees. He did so and they were declared elected. 



The following program was then offered : 



George F. Kunz, Exhibition of Specimens. 



The Centenary of John Playfair's Defense of James 

 Hutton's Theory of the Formation of River Valleys : 

 Memorials by Professors Stevenson, Kemp and Dodge, 



Richard E. Dodge, An Interesting Landslide in the 

 Chaco Canon, New Mexico. Illustrated with lantern slides. 



Richard E. Dodge, Arroyo Formation. Illustrated with 

 lantern slides. 



Gilbert van Ingen, The Ausable Chasm, New York. 

 Illustrated with lantern slides. 



George F. Kunz gave an exhibition of specimens illustrating 

 the finding of epidote, grossularite garnet and twinned crystals 

 of quartz of the Japanese type, associated with chalcopyrite, 

 malachite and other ores of copper in a contact vein in limestone 

 in the Green Monster Mining Co.'s mine near Solzer, Prince of 

 Wales' Island, Alaska. 



