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(III.) The election of the following persons as Honorary 

 Members of the Academy: — 



M. Chaeles Barrois, of Lille, France. 

 • Prof. Asaph Hall, of Washington, D. C. 

 Prof. Wolcott Gibbs, of Newport, E. I. 

 Prof. George L. Good ale, of Cambridge, Mass. 



(IV.) The election as Resident Members of 

 Mr. Jasper E. Corning. 

 Lieut. "\Y, W. Gibson. 

 Mr. "William Niyen. 



(V.) The transfer of Mr. Frederick Schack from a Resi- 

 dent to a Corresponding Member, in consequence^f removal to 

 the West. 



' The several recommendations were approved by vote of the 

 Academy, and the gentlemen named elected as specified. 



The paper of the evening was then read, as follows: — 



THE LARAMIE GROUP, — ITS GEOLOGICAL RELATIONS, ITS ECO- 

 NOMIC importance, AND ITS FAUNA AND FLORA. 



BY J. S. NEWBERRY. 



The term Laramie Group was first used by Mr. Clarence King, 

 who applied it to a series of sandstones and shales containing beds 

 of coal exposed at Point of Rocks, Black Butte, and other places 

 along the line of the Union Pacific Railroad, and having great 

 development in Colorado and Wyoming. Mr. King considered 

 this the uppermost member of the Cretaceous system, and ex- 

 cluded from it the Fort Union beds of Hayden, wliich, on the 

 evidence I furnished him, he agreed with me in considering Ter- 

 tiary. I called the Fort Union group Miocene because I identi- 

 fied it with the plant-bearing beds of Mackenzie's River, Disco 

 Island, Greenland, etc., of which the flora had been studied by 

 Prof. Oswald Heer and was by him called Miocene. This flora, 

 to which I shall again refer, has since been shown by Mr. J. 

 Starkie Gardner to be Eocene. The Fort Uniori flora has many 

 species in common with the Eocene beds of the Island of Mull, 

 Bournemouth, etc., and holds undoubtedly the same geological 

 position. Dr. Hayden accepted the term Laramie Grouji, but 

 made it include his Fort Union beds, in which Mr. King did not 

 agree with him, as will be seen in the full discussion of the ques- 



