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REPORT OF THE GEOLOGICAL SECTION. 
Read by Mr. C. E. Wheelock, recorder of the section. 
The section began the year by following the plan adopted 
last year of having regular monthly sessions, and listening to 
the reports of work and papers of the members. In accordance 
with this plan, subjects were assigned, work laid out, and the first 
meeting held. After this meeting it was discovered that there 
was a conflict of dates for the meeting nights of the scientific 
societies to which many of the leading members belonged, and 
as no time convenient for all could be found, the plan of work 
adopted was continued, although the regular meetings were dis- 
continued. Several interesting conferences of the members have 
been held during the year. The most important work of the year 
was in the line of the “ Gypsum and Plaster Deposits” and 
“The Detailed Study of the Pleistocene Geology of the Vicin- 
ity.” The interesting fact was also announced that the children 
of a quarter of a century ago were in the habit of frequenting 
the glens and ravines on Prospect Hill, near what is now St. 
Joseph’s Hospital, and gathering and eating a pinkish colored 
clay, which abounds in that vicinity. Most of the work assigned 
to the members has been completed, and the reports and papers 
on the same will be taken up in the regular meetings of the com- 
ing year. 
REPORT OF THE ZOOLOGICAL SECTION. 
The following “ digest’ of the work of the Zoological sec- 
tion was read by Dr. C. W. Hargitt. 
The capture during the year of one specimen each of three 
additional salamanders, Amblystoma jeffersonianum, Hemuidoe- 
tylium scutatum, Plethodon glutinosus. The finding on the 
Onondaga Reservation of Uranidea gracilis (Miller’s Thumb) 
a representative of the fish known as star-gazers and distructive 
of the eggs of trout, etc. The identification of the cyclops like 
Copepoda Canthocamptus as occurring in “ Branchippus ” Pond 
and also at “ the Darks.” ‘The identification of about 25 spiders 
new to the Onondaga county list, and the taking of about a 
dozen more which are as yet not identified. 
