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the summit level of the Ohio canal, and about one thousand one 

 hundred feet above the sea. A water level, to correspond with 

 these abrasions, would now involve the submersion of the greater 

 portion both of the Atlantic and the western states. 



The Association then adjourned to 8 o'clock, A. M. of Tuesday. 



Tuesday morning, 8£ o'clock.— Dr. Locke in the chair. 



The standing committee nominated the following gentlemen 

 as members of the Association, who were unanimously elected ; 



Pres. Bacon, of Columbia College ; Dr. S. Reid, of Richmond, 

 Mass. ; Rev. Mr. Peabody, of Springfield, Mass. 



The Secretary read the minutes of Monday's session. 



Mr. Dana read a communication on the occurrence of magne- 

 sia and phosphoric acid in recent corals, as discovered by Mr. B. 

 Silhman, Jr. and its bearing on many important geological and 

 mineralogical questions. Mr. Silliman, Dr. Smith, Prof. Ro- 

 gers and others, made a few observations on the subject. 



Mr. Dana's paper will be found entire in the succeeding pages of 



this number of the Journal. No abstract is therefore given here. 



, f' Hitchcock remarked on the abstract of a paper by Dr. 



Webber, of New Hampshire, read on Thursday morning, and 



which he had seen in the National Intelligencer, on the formation 



. * he te "*aced banks of Connecticut river, which was identical 



with the theory proposed by himself in his final reports of 1S30 



an 1841 on the geology of Massachusetts. He did not doubt 



he originality of the view in question with Dr. W., but as no 



jW'ce had been taken by any writer he had seen of the views in 



ls final reports, he thought justice to himself required the men- 



t,Q n of the fact. 



esolved, .That the next session of the Association be convened at 

 e w Haven, on the last Wednesday of April, 1845. 



olved, That Dr. Storer be requested to continue his investigations 

 e subject referred to him at the last annual meeting, and to report 

 at a future meeting. 



Solved, further, that the same request be made of Dr. Gould, Dr. 

 M r y p 3 "' J * H ' Red field, Messrs. Booth and Boye, Dr. Clapp, Mr. Dana, 

 r - Leonard, Mr. Couthouy, and Prof. H. D. Rogers, in relation to the 

 Su Vcts referred to each. 



w motion of Mr. Haldeman, it was— 



o ced, That Dr. George Engelmann, of St. Louis, be requested to 



1V„_i » a ca,a logue of the recent plants common to both sides of the 

 *** Atlantic ocean. 



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