Our hills and mountains have their problems, also. For some 

 time it has been believed that the hills of New England are 

 remains of an old plain now elevated and carved into hills and 

 valleys. Recently evidence has been brought forward indicating 

 that this plain in southern New England is really a series of terraces 

 carved by the sea as it stood at different levels over what is now 

 land. What was the history here in Maine? The above are only 

 a few of the many problems which yet await solution in our State. 

 To their solution each member of the Academy is invited to con- 

 tribute his bit of observation or theory. 



To accomplish its aims the Academy and its Bulletin must have 

 the support of the scientific students and teachers of the State. This 

 support should be given not only by subscriptions, but by contribu- 

 tions to the Bulletin as well. If you have any article of geological 

 interest, the Bulletin will be glad to receive it. If you have no 

 article of your own, but have a subject which you would like to 

 have considered, the editor would be very glad to know of it. If 

 the members of the Academy will support the Bulletin in these 

 ways we will be able to consider the subjects which will be of great- 

 est interest to the greatest number of geological students. 



Edward H. Perkins. 



A three days' field meeting of the Knox Academy of Arts and 

 Sciences will be held this season at the Knox Arboretum, Thom- 

 aston, on August 24, 25 and 26. There will be excursions to the 

 lime quarries, islands off the Knox County coast, and other points 

 of natural interest. In the evening papers will be read, or lectures 

 given, on Natural History topics, in the Knox Museum lecture room. 



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