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STATED MEETING. 
October 21st, 1895. 
No quorum being present the members adjourned. 
J. F. Kemp, Secretary. 
STATED MEETING. 
October 28th, 1895. 
The Academy met with Vice-President STEvENson in the 
chair ; twenty persons present. 
The minutes of the last meeting were read and approved. 
The Secretary presented the nomination of James Marsland 
Lawton, Jr., for resident membership. The nomination was re- 
ferred to the Council inthe regular order. 
The Geological Section then organized and listened to the 
following paper : 
GEOLOGICAL NOTES. 
LONG ISLAND AND NANTUCKET. 
By Artuur HOo.mtick. 
This paper was prepared from field notes taken during the 
years 1894—95.in connection with the Summer School of Geology 
of Columbia College. 
Investigations with special objects in view were made during 
this time, which have been the subjects of previous communica- 
tions.* After utilizing such material as was necessary for-these, 
a number of disconnected notes remained, which are here brought 
together. 
Lone ISLAND. 
Marine Cretaceous. The development of our knowledge in re- 
gard to the extension of the Cretaceous formation eastward from 
* Dislocations in Certain Portions of the Atlantic Coastal Plain ‘Strata and Their 
Probable Causes. Trans. N. Y. Acad. Sci. XIV. (Oct. 15th, 1894) 8-20, figs. 1-5. ete. 
