BULLETIN 



OF THE 



ZESSiEX IIsrSTITTJTE. 



Vol. 5. Salem, Mass., Jan. and Feb., 1873. No. 1. 



One Dollar a Year in Advance. 10 Cents a Single Copy. 



Eegular Meeting, Monday, January 6, 1873. 



The President in the chair. Records of preceding 

 meeting read. 



Dr. a. S. Packard presented a verbal communication, 

 of which the following is an abstract, on 



THE GLACIAL PHENOMENA OF NORTHEASTERN AMERICA 

 COMPARED WITH THOSE OF EUROPE. 



Dr. PacivARd said that during a hurried tour through 

 the Alps, he had specially observed the glacial phenomena 

 of the regions which had been glaciated in past times. 

 The impression made on his mind was that the evidences 

 of the former presence of glaciers in valleys, at the heads 

 of which were the ends of glaciers now existing, were 

 scarcely more distinct than in the valleys of the White 

 Mountains, the Adirondacks and even the coast of ]\Iaine 

 and Massachusetts, in all of which localities he had in 

 years past studied these phenomena. As he approached 

 the Alps from the valley leading up to Kempten from 

 Munich, he had noticed that in the region of Kempten 



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